Delhi Circle Rate Calculator

Choose what you are valuing, your colony category and the size, and this applies the Delhi government's own circle rates to give the minimum value the property can be registered at.

How Delhi works out the circle rate value

The Delhi government does not publish one price per colony. It publishes a handful of rates and a method, and the minimum value of your property is what that method gives for your measurements.

For a house it is two sums added together. The land is valued at the rate for your colony's category. The building is valued at a construction rate for the same category, reduced for its age.

For a flat it is a single sum. The notification sets one rate per square metre of plinth area, which rises with the size of the flat and already includes the share of land.

The letter for your colony comes from the notified list. If you do not know it, the Delhi circle rate finder gives it for the colonies we are asked about most.

The official rates this calculator uses

Land and construction, per square metre

Land used commercially is valued at 3 times the residential land rate. Industrial land is valued at 2 times, and public utility land such as a private school, college or hospital at 2 times.

Age of the building

The construction figure is multiplied by a factor for the year the building was completed.

In category G and H colonies only, construction is also multiplied by 1 for a pucca building, 0.75 for semi pucca and 0.5 for katcha.

Flats in buildings of up to four storeys, per square metre of plinth area

In a building of more than four storeys the rate is Rs 87,840 per square metre for residential use and Rs 1,00,800 for commercial use, whatever the size of the flat. A private builder's flat in such a building carries a factor of 1.25.

Source: Delhi government notification No. F.1(953)/Regn.Br./Div.Com./HQ/2014/5943, in force from 23 September 2014, read the official copy. A temporary 20 percent cut in these rates was withdrawn from 1 July 2022, so the full rates apply. Last checked 5 November 2026.

A worked example

Take a 200 gaj house in a category D colony, completed in 1995, with 3,000 square feet of covered area across its floors.

The plot is about 167 square metres. At Rs 1,27,680 per square metre, the land comes to about Rs 2.14 crore.

The covered area is about 279 square metres. At Rs 11,160 per square metre, reduced to 90 percent because the house was finished in the 1990s, the building adds about Rs 28 lakh.

So this house cannot be registered below about Rs 2.42 crore. Stamp duty is charged on that figure or on the agreed price, whichever is higher.

One floor, not the whole house

Most sales in Delhi colonies today are of a single floor. The notification handles that by giving the floor a share of the land in proportion to its covered area, and adding construction on that floor alone.

So in a house with four equal floors, each floor carries a quarter of the land. The top floor and the ground floor come out the same, even though the market rarely prices them that way.

When the price is below the circle rate value

The circle rate value is a floor for registration. If the agreed price is lower, the buyer still pays stamp duty on the circle rate value, on money that never changed hands.

The income tax rules follow the same figure. The seller can be taxed as though the property sold at the circle rate value, and the buyer can be taxed on part of the gap. This article explains the trap.

Where the circle rate is genuinely above what a property will fetch, an independent valuation report is how the lower figure is defended. It shows the real market value, backed by comparable sales.

What this calculator leaves out

Agricultural land has its own rates per acre, notified separately, so it is not covered here. Nor are industrial or institutional buildings, because the notification gives their land a factor but sets no construction rate of its own for them.

It also works on the figures you type. A wrong category or a guessed covered area gives a wrong answer, and the sub registrar goes by the documents, not by this page.

Finally, remember what the number is. It is the least the government will accept, not what the property is worth. In most good Delhi colonies the market sits well above it, and this guide explains the gap.

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