Gurugram's 87 Unsafe Buildings: What It Means for Buyers of Older Flats in the City

What happened?

The Tribune reported that the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has identified 87 dangerous buildings through a survey. Show-cause notices have gone to the owners of 66 of them, and the remaining 21 are still being processed.

According to the same report, the buildings sit across all six civic zones. Zone 1 carries the largest share with 35. Zone 5 has 18 and Zone 3 has 12, while Zones 4 and 6 hold nine each and Zone 2 has the fewest at four.

The Tribune said officials will take up demolition only after the notice process and other prescribed formalities are complete, and zonal officers have been told to act. The paper linked the move to recent collapses in Delhi, and recalled the 2022 Chintels Paradiso collapse, after which 183 buildings were identified as dangerous. It also noted that the Haryana Human Rights Commission criticised the MCG in April 2025 over slow action on 54 unsafe buildings.

Which sectors are affected?

• Gurugram Zone 1
• Gurugram Zone 5
• Gurugram Zone 3
• Gurugram Zones 4 and 6
• Gurugram Zone 2
• Older residential and paying-guest buildings in Gurugram

Potential impact

Direct price effects will be confined to the flagged buildings, where a demolition notice makes a flat very hard to sell or finance. The Tribune's report does not name the buildings, so the wider market cannot yet tell which addresses are caught.

Beyond those buildings, cautious buyers may ask for structural audits and municipal clearances on older flats, which can slow deals and push negotiated prices down for ageing stock. Newer, documented projects are unlikely to be hit directly, though the city's average of 16500 per sq ft in our data hides wide differences by building age. Demolition itself is only planned and depends on due process, so timing is uncertain.