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Buying a home in Kanpur: stamp duty, loan, prices

Duty not computed here · RBI loan rate · RBI and NHB price indices.

In short

Stamp duty is not computed for Uttar Pradesh: its rate pages cannot be read from outside India. Across the RBI's 18 cities, house prices rose +3.6% over a year (Q1:2026-27 (April-June 2026)). A bank lends at most 80% of a ₹50 lakh home (RBI); the average rate on new housing loans was 7.61% in August 2026.

Calculate for Kanpur

Buying: no stamp duty is computed for Uttar Pradesh; the home loan calculator works everywhere.

If you sell

Capital gain and the tax on it

Same rule in every state: the Income-tax Act applies across India.

Capital gain₹20,00,000
Type of gainLong-term (held over 24 months)
Rate12.5%
Tax on the gain₹2,50,000

Long-term gain taxed at 12.5% without indexation (Income-tax Act 2025, section 197(1), sale on or after 1 April 2026), before surcharge and cess. Home bought before 23 July 2024 by a resident individual or HUF: 20% with indexed cost at most (section 197(3)).

Gain = sale price − purchase price, before deductible costs. Brokerage, reinvestment exemptions and TDS are not included.

Kanpur against the rest of India

The NHB press release gives no RESIDEX figure for Kanpur. The city is one of the 18 in the RBI House Price Index, whose combined change over a year is +3.6%; its own number sits in the RBI database, not in the release. The nine cities with a RESIDEX figure range from -1.7% to +24.4%.

Where Payotte reads the rates, the duty on a ₹50 lakh home runs from ₹2,50,000 in Uttarakhand (5% of the price) to ₹5,00,000 in Puducherry (10%): seven states and union territories out of 36, which leaves Uttar Pradesh off that scale.

Kanpur lies at 26.5°N, 80.3°E. The nearest of the other 29 cities is Lucknow, 70 km to the north-east, then Faridabad (370 km, north-west) and Ghaziabad (375 km, north-west), as the crow flies. The farthest is Thiruvananthapuram, 2,030 km away. The closest city with a RESIDEX figure is Faridabad, 370 km away, at +24.4%: a neighbour's number, not Kanpur's own.

Uttar Pradesh has three other cities on Payotte: Ghaziabad, Lucknow and Noida. None of them has a RESIDEX figure either.

The twelve cities of Payotte closest to Kanpur
CityDistanceDirectionPrices over a year (RESIDEX)
Lucknow70 kmnorth-eastno figure
Faridabad370 kmnorth-west+24.4%
Ghaziabad375 kmnorth-westno figure
Noida380 kmnorth-westno figure
Delhi390 kmnorth-westno figure
Gurugram395 kmnorth-westno figure
Jaipur455 kmwestno figure
Bhopal465 kmsouth-westno figure
Patna490 kmeastno figure
Chandigarh590 kmnorth-westno figure
Nagpur605 kmsouthno figure
Indore620 kmsouth-westno figure

The questions, answered

How much stamp duty in Kanpur?

Payotte shows no figure: the rate pages of Uttar Pradesh could not be read from outside India. Ask the sub-registrar office.

What EMI on a ₹50 lakh home in Kanpur?

On the largest loan an Indian bank may grant (80% of the price, RBI), ₹40 lakh over 20 years at the 7.61% average rate costs ₹32,493 a month.

How much tax when you sell a home in Kanpur?

The Income-tax Act applies across India: a gain on a home held more than 24 months is taxed at 12.5% without indexation, ₹2,50,000 on a ₹20 lakh gain, before surcharge and cess

Are house prices rising in Kanpur?

Kanpur is one of the 18 cities of the RBI House Price Index, which rose +3.6% over a year in Q1:2026-27 (April-June 2026) for all 18 cities together; the city figure is published only in the RBI's DBIE database.

More on the tax when you sell: capital gains tax on property. On the loan: eligibility and EMI.

The figures

The RBI and the NHB publish price indices, not prices in rupees. National figures: RBI House Price Index +3.6% over a year (Q1:2026-27 (April-June 2026)); average rate on new housing loans 7.61% (August 2026).

Elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh

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