Sector 86 sits inside a stretch of New Gurgaon that DLF Limited has been building on since the early 2010s, part of a township the company markets as DLF Garden City. The township spans more than 600 acres and houses about 3,000 families across nine residential and commercial projects. Within this footprint, Sector 86 carries some of DLF's earliest completed residential blocks in the corridor, making it one of the more established addresses in a part of Gurugram that is still filling in around it.
DLF was founded in 1946 by Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh, and it began with the development of 22 urban colonies in Delhi. When the Delhi Development Act of 1957 handed real estate control to the local government and shut out private developers in Delhi proper, DLF started acquiring land outside the capital, in Gurgaon district, and by the mid-1970s had begun developing its DLF City project there. The company formally expanded into Gurugram in 1985, building out space for India's emerging class of global professionals. That arc, from Delhi's post-Partition colonies to Gurugram's Cyber City, is the same institutional track record that eventually reached Sector 86 decades later, once DLF had established its core city and moved toward the newer sectors along the Dwarka Expressway belt.
Today DLF is India's largest publicly listed real estate company, and its portfolio spans residential, commercial and retail properties across 15 states and 24 cities. The company made its public debut with an IPO in June 2007 that was among the largest in India at the time, and its shares were listed on the NSE and BSE on 5 July 2007. In Gurugram itself, DLF's scale is visible a few kilometres from Sector 86 in the form of DLF Cyber City, a business district spanning 125 acres that offers roughly 15 million sq. ft. of workspace to global corporations and Fortune 500 companies. That commercial anchor is one reason DLF's residential push into New Gurgaon sectors like 86 carries weight with buyers who already associate the brand with the original DLF City.
Within Sector 86, DLF's delivered residential stock includes New Town Heights and Skycourt, both positioned as part of the wider Garden City township. DLF New Town Heights, spread across Sectors 86, 90 and 91, is a ready-to-move township where most towers were delivered between 2013 and 2015, and it carries an IGBC Gold pre-certification for sustainable design. The project offers 2, 3 and 4 BHK apartments with a clubhouse, swimming pool, gym, retail space, library, sports courts and 3-tier security.
Adjoining it, DLF Skycourt is a ready-to-move-in project at the heart of the 116-plus acre DLF Gardencity township, developed by DLF Limited with air-conditioned 3 BHK apartments spread across 11 acres and 10 towers. More than 2,500 families already live within DLF Gardencity, across 23 landscaped gardens and secured environs. For a buyer evaluating DLF specifically in Sector 86, these two projects are the practical evidence of delivery: towers that were promised, built and occupied rather than still on paper.
Developers have gravitated to this belt largely because of its proximity to the Dwarka Expressway and NH-8, which gives residents direct access to Dwarka and other parts of Delhi NCR. For DLF's Sector 86 holdings specifically, the sector sits 4-6 km from both NH-48 and the Dwarka Expressway. The Dwarka Expressway has been fully operational since 2025, complete with its airport tunnel, putting IGI Airport about 30-31 km away. Garhi Harsaru Junction is about 5 km from the sector, Gurgaon Railway Station roughly 16 km, and IMT Manesar around 6 km via DLF Road. Cyber City and Udyog Vihar, DLF's own commercial anchors, connect through either NH-48 or the Dwarka Expressway. That means a Sector 86 address under the DLF name links back to the developer's original commercial district rather than existing in isolation.
A metro line into this stretch is also planned, which is generally expected to lift property values once it is operational. Until then, road connectivity via the expressway and NH-48 remains the primary draw for DLF's residential base here, particularly for buyers commuting to Cyber City, Udyog Vihar or the Sohna Road office corridor.
Bharat Ram Global School and RPS International School sit within 3 km of the sector, with Delhi Public School and Euro International also nearby. SilverStreak Multispeciality, Aarvy Healthcare and Genesis hospitals are all within 2-4 km. Retail has followed the residential base too, with malls and high-street formats emerging around the DLF Garden City cluster as families have moved in over the past decade.
Apartments in Sector 86 were quoting around Rs 11,400 to Rs 12,050 per sq ft on leading portals in 2026, though rates shift by project, tower age and floor. The sector's property options broadly fall in the premium budget segment, with 3 BHK as the popular layout. DLF is named alongside Ansal API and Pyramid Infratech as one of the builders with ready projects here, while newer entrants such as Emaar India have since followed into the same corridor. Because DLF's Sector 86 stock is largely delivered rather than under-construction, it trades on the basis of ready possession and an established, occupied community rather than a launch-phase price curve.
A DLF address in Sector 86 is backed by a company with nearly eight decades of continuous real estate operations since its 1946 founding, and by a Gurugram track record that runs from the original DLF City through Cyber City to this newer township on the Dwarka Expressway side of the city. For buyers weighing options in Sector 86, DLF's relevance rests on that combination: a builder whose commercial district anchors the city's employment map, and a residential township in this specific sector that has already been delivered and lived in rather than promised.