Retail Space on Rent in Gurgaon's High Street Markets

A high street in Gurgaon, officially Gurugram, is an open-air run of shops, usually on the ground and first floors of a commercial project, facing a road or a walkway rather than sitting inside a closed mall. The old ones grew out of sector markets, Galleria in DLF Phase 4 and Central Arcade beside MG Road metro. The new ones were built as projects on Golf Course Extension Road, Sohna Road and the Dwarka Expressway. On listings read between 22 September and 7 October 2026, high street retail space on rent in Gurgaon asked about Rs 66 to Rs 697 per sq ft a month, and most ground floors on the new streets sat at Rs 100 to Rs 170.

This row used to give no price at all, describe the market as newly launched and name no developer. The streets below are built and trading, and they have prices; only the projects still under construction, such as Elan Empire in Sector 66, have nothing to let yet. Retail space on rent in a high street market of Gurgaon is a narrower search than a shop anywhere: for shops of every kind across the city, including colony markets and malls, see the shop for rent in Gurgaon guide. This page stays on the high-street format.

Ground-floor rents, high street by high street

Every rate is the monthly ask over the area: Rs 2,57,000 over 1,512 sq ft is Rs 170, and Rs 70,000 over 894 sq ft is Rs 78. The Emerald Plaza, M3M 65th Avenue, Elan Epic, Dwarka Expressway and Galleria asks were read on 7 October 2026; the rest come from this site's own building pages, each with its sources, read between 22 and 30 September. Elan Epic's Rs 296 is on carpet area, the floor you can use, and would be lower on the super area most other asks quote.

Golf Course Extension Road: the new high streets

Sectors 65 to 70 hold Gurgaon's densest cluster of built high streets. A leasing guide calls M3M Cosmopolitan in Sector 66 the first high street on the road. AIPL Joy Street next to it is the busiest, with about 230 outlets around open courts, shops on the ground and first floors, food on the second and a cinema to pull evening crowds. Emaar Colonnade puts shops on its first four floors, IREO Corridors sells to the families of a gated complex next door, and Elan Epic in Sector 70 asks one of the highest ground-floor rents on the road.

For a retail shop for rent on Golf Course Extension Road, the working band is Rs 100 to Rs 170 a foot for an ordinary ground-floor unit, with Joy Street's smallest units and Elan Epic's carpet-area ask above it. A fit-out matters as much as the rent for food: a 1,500 sq ft built-up cafe on Joy Street's ground floor, with double-height seating, a bar counter and a kitchen in place, was on offer, and a restaurant that takes over such a fit-out saves months and a large part of its opening budget. This site's pages for AIPL Joy Street, Emaar Colonnade and IREO Corridors take each one unit by unit.

Frontage and height are priced, not size

M3M 65th Avenue shows it in one building. An 894 sq ft ground-floor unit asks Rs 70,000, Rs 78 a foot. A double-height unit facing the main road asks Rs 165, and a 1,512 sq ft ground-floor unit Rs 2.57 lakh, about Rs 170. The same floor of the same project lets at more than twice the rate when it faces the road and has a tall shopfront a brand can put its name on. A tenant who needs passing trade should pay for the frontage; one whose customers come by appointment can take the inner unit and save half.

Old markets that work as high streets

The older streets cost more because their footfall is proven. In Galleria market in DLF Phase 4, a 400 sq ft shop asks Rs 2.5 lakh a month and a 323 sq ft corner Rs 2.25 lakh, Rs 625 to Rs 697 a foot. One broker page lists a 405 sq ft ground-floor unit with 270 sq ft of carpet at Rs 5 lakh under Galleria; this site's DLF South Point Mall page took an identical unit from a portal's South Point listings, so which market it is in is unsettled, and it is left out of the range. Beside MG Road metro, DLF Central Arcade lets upstairs units from about Rs 72 and main-road ground floors up to about Rs 417, and M3M Jewel, a newer building on the same road, publishes Rs 500 for its ground floor.

Arcadia market in Sector 49, on this site's shop guide, asks about Rs 201 to Rs 231 on the ground floor. Shops filed under Sector 49 on a portal today, 285 sq ft at Rs 17,000 and 432 sq ft at Rs 44,000, work out at Rs 60 and Rs 102 but did not name their building.

Sohna Road and the Dwarka Expressway

On Sohna Road, Satya Element One trades with food and baby-goods chains as anchors and asks about Rs 127 to Rs 139 a foot. Along the Dwarka Expressway the high streets are newer and cheaper. In Sector 102, a 290 sq ft shop asks Rs 19,000 a month, about Rs 66, shops of 750 and 759 sq ft Rs 60,000, about Rs 80, and an 881 sq ft showroom Rs 1.25 lakh, about Rs 142. Satya Hive in Sector 102 offers ready shops of about 616 sq ft, which this site's shop guide priced at Rs 55,440, about Rs 90. In Sector 109, a 205 sq ft ground-floor shop with a washroom and parking asks Rs 25,000, about Rs 122. A shop for rent on the Dwarka Expressway costs about a third less than on Golf Course Extension Road because the housing around it is still filling; a tenant there is paying less for a crowd that is still arriving.

Upstairs is a different market

Every published floor-by-floor rent says the same thing. M3M Jewel drops from Rs 500 on the ground to Rs 300 on the first and Rs 250 on the second. In this site's mall pages, Gold Souk falls from Rs 250 to Rs 70, and Cross Point runs from about Rs 224 down to Rs 61. On the new high streets, first floors are commonly let to salons, clinics, gyms and coaching centres, whose customers climb the stairs because they have booked. A high street mall in Gurgaon built over three or four floors lets its upper floors on that basis, and a tenant who does not need walk-in trade should start the search on the first floor.

Lease terms: what a high street lease adds to the rent

• Common-area maintenance. Leasing guides give Rs 20 to Rs 60 per sq ft a month on managed high streets. The listings behind this site's pages showed less, Rs 16 in DLF Star Mall and Rs 26 on a Gold Souk first floor, and about Rs 12 on a 505 sq ft Element One shop with Rs 6,000 a month of maintenance. Ask for last year's actual bill.
• Deposit. Three to six months on the guides, and on Emaar Colonnade's listings; Rs 1.5 lakh on the Rs 70,000 Element One shop.
• Lock-in and escalation. Guides give lock-ins of three to five years, and escalation anywhere from 5 to 15 per cent every three years; 15 per cent every three years is the clause most often found on Gurgaon leases.
• Rent-free fit-out. Four to twelve months on one guide, more for large units. A brand taking 2,000 sq ft or more should ask for it; a 300 sq ft tenant will rarely get more than a month or two.
• GST at 18 per cent on commercial rent. A registered tenant making taxable sales usually claims it back; where the landlord is unregistered and the tenant registered, the tenant pays it under reverse charge.
• TDS. Where the rent exceeds Rs 50,000 a month, a company tenant deducts 10 per cent under section 393(1) of the Income-tax Act, 2025, which replaced section 194-I on 1 April 2026.

A 750 sq ft ground-floor shop, costed

Take the 750 sq ft ground-floor unit in M3M 65th Avenue at Rs 80,000 a month, about Rs 107 a foot.

A company tenant deducts Rs 8,000 of TDS from the Rs 80,000 and pays it to the tax department. A deposit of three to six months is Rs 2.4 lakh to Rs 4.8 lakh, and a 15 per cent rise after three years takes the rent to Rs 92,000. A GST-registered tenant who claims the tax back is left at Rs 95,000 to Rs 1,25,000 a month depending on the maintenance. That range, not the Rs 80,000 on the listing, is what the shop has to earn.

Judging a high street before you sign

1. Count the open shutters. A new street with half its units dark will not deliver the footfall the rent assumes. Visit on a weekday evening and a Sunday.
2. Find the anchor. Joy Street has a cinema; Element One has food and baby-goods chains. A street with no anchor depends on its neighbours, and a tenant should ask who has signed.
3. Check the catchment claim. This site's IREO Corridors page found a leasing pitch of 2,000 families against project records of 1,356 or 1,780 homes. A shop serving a gated complex is priced on that number.
4. Confirm the approved use. A restaurant needs ducting, gas and fire clearance the landlord can actually give.
5. Check it is finished. Guides print rents for Elan Empire, which is under construction with possession given as April 2028.

Two names come up often in searches without a rent attached. IREO's Grand View High Street is searched mostly for its cinema and restaurants, and no shop rent for it surfaced in the searches run for this page; the same was true of Good Earth City Center on Golf Course Extension Road, which appears in leasing lists without a figure. For those, ask the leasing agent for a signed lease in the building, not a brochure rate.

Who this suits

A high street suits a brand or a local business that needs passing trade, parking at the door and a modern shopfront: a cafe, a pharmacy, a salon chain, a clothing store. Golf Course Extension Road suits a tenant who wants a working street today; the Dwarka Expressway suits one who will pay less and wait for the crowd; Galleria and Central Arcade suit those who can afford proven footfall. It does not suit a business with no walk-in trade, which pays far less for an office, or a tenant who cannot carry a three-year lock-in.

Before you sign

1. The area basis: carpet or super, and the loading between them.
2. The all-in monthly cost: rent, CAM, GST and power, in writing.
3. Lock-in, escalation and deposit: each in the lease, with the first step's date.
4. Rent-free months for fit-out, and who pays for the shopfront.
5. Signage rights on the facade, and any limit on hours.
6. The landlord's title: a conveyance deed for an investor-owned unit, or the developer's authority for one it still holds.

Frequently asked questions

How much does retail space on rent in a Gurgaon high street market cost?

On listings read between 22 September and 7 October 2026, shops on Gurgaon's high streets asked about Rs 66 to Rs 697 per sq ft a month. Ground floors on the new streets on Golf Course Extension Road mostly sit at Rs 100 to Rs 170, with a few small units above Rs 300; the Dwarka Expressway at Rs 66 to Rs 142; Galleria market in DLF Phase 4 at Rs 625 to Rs 697.

What do high street shops for rent in Gurgaon cost on Golf Course Extension Road?

A main-road ground-floor shop of 1,100 sq ft in Emaar Emerald Plaza, Sector 65, asks Rs 1.10 lakh a month, Rs 100 a foot. In M3M 65th Avenue, ground-floor units run from Rs 70,000 for 894 sq ft to Rs 2.57 lakh for 1,512 sq ft, Rs 78 to Rs 170, and double-height main-road units are quoted at Rs 165. AIPL Joy Street asks Rs 140 to Rs 322.

Is a ground floor retail shop for lease worth the premium over the first floor?

For a trade that lives on walk-in customers, usually yes. In M3M Jewel on MG Road the published rents are Rs 500 a foot on the ground floor, Rs 300 on the first and Rs 250 on the second. In Gold Souk the ground floor asks Rs 250 against Rs 70 on the second. A clinic, salon or office that customers book in advance can take the upper floor and keep the difference.

What does a shop for rent on the Dwarka Expressway cost?

In Sector 102, a 290 sq ft shop asks Rs 19,000 a month (about Rs 66 a foot), 750 to 759 sq ft shops Rs 60,000 (Rs 79 to Rs 80) and an 881 sq ft showroom Rs 1.25 lakh (about Rs 142). A 205 sq ft ground-floor shop in Sector 109 asks Rs 25,000, about Rs 122. These streets are newer than Golf Course Extension Road and their footfall is still building.

What is the shop rent in Galleria market, DLF Phase 4?

The highest of any open market found. A 400 sq ft shop asks Rs 2.5 lakh a month, Rs 625 a foot, and a 323 sq ft corner shop Rs 2.25 lakh, about Rs 697. Another Galleria shop is listed at Rs 1.2 lakh without a size. The corner and the ground floor carry most of the premium.

What CAM, deposit and lock-in come with a high street shop lease in Gurgaon?

Leasing guides give common-area maintenance of Rs 20 to Rs 60 per sq ft a month, deposits of three to six months, lock-ins of three to five years and rent-free fit-out periods of four to twelve months for larger units. Listings read for this site's building pages showed lower maintenance, Rs 16 in DLF Star Mall and Rs 26 in Gold Souk, deposits of three to six months in Emaar Colonnade, and 15 per cent rises every three years.

Can I rent a shop in Elan Empire or other new high streets yet?

Not in Elan Empire. The developer's own filing of December 2025 says the Sector 66 project is under construction, and one portal gives possession on 1 April 2028, so the Rs 175 to Rs 350 a leasing guide quotes for it is not a rent anyone is paying. Lease only what is finished and trading, and count the open shutters before you sign.