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What to actually check on a RERA registration
A registration number in a footer proves very little. Four fields on the authority's own portal prove quite a lot.
bhooomi Editorial · 14 August 2026 · 6 min read
RERA registration is necessary, not sufficient. The number printed on a brochure tells you the promoter filed. It does not tell you what they filed, and the gap between those two things is where most disputes start.
Check the completion date on the registration, not the one in the brochure. The date lodged with the authority is the legally enforceable commitment. Marketing material routinely quotes something twelve to eighteen months earlier.
Check whether the registration covers the phase you are buying into. Large townships register phase by phase. A project can be entirely legitimate and still have your tower sitting outside any current registration, which means the protections you are counting on do not attach to your unit.
Check the quarterly progress updates. Promoters must upload them. A project with four consecutive quarters of updates and photographs is telling you something quite different from one whose last filing was fourteen months ago.
Check the litigation disclosures. They are filed, they are public, and they are the fastest way to discover a land-title dispute before you have paid a booking amount.
None of this requires a lawyer. All of it is on the state authority's portal, free, in under ten minutes. We link the registration and the authority on every project page for exactly this reason.
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