NEW DELHI: Realty shares were trading in the green with the Nifty Realty index trading 1.61 per cent up at 218.35 around 11:08 am on Thursday.

Shares of Indiabulls Real Estate (up 4.94 per cent), Brigade Enterprises (up 3 per cent), Unitech (up 2.33 per cent), Oberoi Realty (up 2.01 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

DLF (up 1.79 per cent), Phoenix Mills (up 1.58 per cent) and Godrej Properties (up 1.23 per cent) too clocked decent gains.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 18.60 points at 10,368 while BSE Sensex was down 42.39 points at 34,399.66 at that time.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Tata Motors, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, Indian Oil Corp, Vedanta, BEL, BHEL and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.