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One acre in Raidurg just sold for Rs 264 crore
TGIIC auctioned 5.25 acres in Raidurg for Rs 1,386 crore. That is Rs 264 crore an acre, a Hyderabad record and 50.9 percent above the reserve.
In August 2026, the Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation put one plot of land in Raidurg up for auction. It sold for Rs 264 crore an acre.
That is the highest price land has ever reached in Hyderabad.
The plot is called P1. It measures 5.25 acres. The total price was Rs 1,386 crore. The auction ran on the MSTC platform with JLL as transaction advisor. MSN Realty won it.
The number that matters
One acre is 43,560 square feet.
Divide Rs 264 crore by 43,560 and you get Rs 60,606.
So the land alone cost about Rs 60,600 per square foot. Nobody has dug a foundation yet. Nobody has poured concrete. That is the price of empty ground.
What the government expected, and what it got
TGIIC set a reserve price of Rs 175 crore an acre. That is the floor, the number below which they would not sell.
The final price was Rs 264 crore. That is 50.9 percent above the floor.
Three months earlier, in May 2026, TGIIC sold land at Rs 237 crore an acre. That was the record then. It lasted about ninety days.
Why a developer pays this
A developer who pays Rs 60,600 a square foot for bare land has one way to make the arithmetic work. Build a lot of floor space on top of it.
The more saleable area you can get from one acre, the further the land cost spreads. This is why the western corridor keeps going taller. It is not a design preference. It is arithmetic.
What this means if you are buying
Two things follow.
Land near the Financial District is now priced for institutions rather than individuals. When a developer bids Rs 1,386 crore for five acres, the private buyer is no longer competing in that market.
And anything already standing in that belt sits on land bought cheaper. That is the real game in the west right now. The older the land purchase, the better the price that can be offered on the flat today.
HOI Wealth Desk Note
We track every TGIIC and HMDA auction in the western belt because the land price sets the floor for every launch that follows it. When a builder buys at Rs 264 crore an acre, the flats on that plot cannot be cheap. Knowing what a developer paid for the ground tells you what they must charge for the flat.
Sources: TGIIC e-auction, August 2026, conducted on the MSTC platform with JLL as transaction advisor.