Buying in Hyderabad

Hyderabad's 'high rental yield' story doesn't show up in the listings. Here's what does.

Hyderabad is often pitched as India's rental-yield city. Across 102 localities in the Gulmohar Atlas, the median asking yield is 3.5%, level with Bengaluru and below Mumbai, and an independent rent index agrees. Here's how the western IT corridor actually prices, and the approval check that matters more here than almost anywhere.

Rent or buy? In five Indian cities, it comes down to one race: house prices against your investments

We ran a rent-vs-buy model on real asking prices and rents in Gurgaon, Noida, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai. With rents at roughly 3% of prices, buying only wins if home prices grow about as fast as your investments would. Here's the grid, city by city.