How to read a MahaRERA project page

Every advertisement for a registered project in Maharashtra must carry its MahaRERA registration number. Since 1 August 2023 it must also carry a QR code that links to the project's record. A Pune project number looks like P521000xxxxx. If a salesperson cannot give you the number, that is the first thing to find out about the project.

Search it at maharera.maharashtra.gov.in → Home Buyers → Registered Projects. You do not need an account. Search by number rather than name. One builder often holds separate registrations for each phase or tower, and names repeat.

Why not use a mirror site?

Several websites copy MahaRERA data into a friendlier layout. They are convenient and they are not the register. We checked two of them for a Wakad project we represent. One listed 384 apartments, the other 490, and one had last refreshed its data almost five months earlier. Use mirrors to browse. Make decisions on the official record.

A project is not simply “registered” or “not registered”. MahaRERA keeps separate lists, and each one means something different:

The record shows the promoter's proposed date of completion, and a revised or extended date if one has been granted. Three things to read here:

• Has it moved, and why? MahaRERA can extend a registration by up to one year under section 6 for force majeure. Beyond that, section 7(3) needs the consent of a majority of buyers, or a specific MahaRERA order. A project on its second extension is telling you something.
• Compare it with what you are being told. Builders often market a date well before the registered one. That is legal, but it is a promise only if it is written into your agreement for sale, because that is the date that gives you a right to interest for delay.
• Look at each building. Large projects are registered with several towers. Where the record breaks the project into buildings, check the tower your flat is in, not just the headline date.

The record lists the apartment types and their carpet area as the promoter declared it at registration, in square metres. Multiply by 10.764 for square feet. This is the number to check a brochure against, because:

• if the brochure figure is 8–15% bigger, it is almost certainly “usable carpet”, with the balconies added in;
• if it is 20% bigger or more, it is built-up or super built-up area;
• if it is smaller, ask why. The registered figure is what the agreement should carry.

This field has decided real money. In a 2023 Appellate Tribunal case a buyer won a ₹42.5 lakh refund using nothing more than the carpet area the promoter itself had declared on MahaRERA. The case is explained in our carpet area shortfall guide.

A registered project has to upload, and keep uploading:

Do not try to audit these yourself. Look at the dates. Progress reports are filed quarterly. If the latest one is a year old, the builder has stopped reporting, and MahaRERA's abeyance list for QPR non-compliance exists because of exactly that.

MahaRERA publishes complaint reports both project-wise and promoter-wise, and its orders are searchable. Use the promoter report. A new project has no history, but the company behind it usually does. You are looking for a pattern: repeated orders for delay interest or refunds across a builder's other projects tells you more than any single case.

Also check the warrant details list. A recovery warrant means MahaRERA ordered a builder to pay a buyer, the builder did not, and the authority sent it to the Collector to recover.

• Construction quality. Visit the site, and visit a building the same developer finished.
• Whether your agreement is fair. Compare it clause by clause with MahaRERA's model agreement. Differences should be explained to you.
• The land's full history. The title report is a summary. For a large purchase, have your own advocate check the 7/12 extract and the chain of documents.
• Whether a bank will lend on it. Ask your lender early. Banks run their own approval of projects.

1. Registration number from the ad or QR code. Search it on maharera.maharashtra.gov.in.
2. Status: registered, or on an abeyance, deregistration or revoked list?
3. Completion date, any extension, and the date for your tower.
4. Carpet area of your apartment type in square metres, × 10.764, against the brochure.
5. Date of the latest quarterly progress report.
6. Promoter-wise complaints, orders and warrants.
7. Screenshot everything, with the date visible. If anything changes later, you will want to show what it said when you booked.

We are a channel partner, not a promoter, and developers pay our fee. Every project we list carries its MahaRERA number, and we print the register's carpet areas and dates alongside the developer's own figures, including where they disagree. Do not take our word for any of it. The whole point of this page is that you can check it yourself.

Sources

• MahaRERA project search and Home Buyers lists: maharera.maharashtra.gov.in
• Extensions under sections 6 and 7(3): MahaRERA guidance
• QR code on advertisements from 1 August 2023, and Order 46C/2025 on its display: MahaRERA orders and circulars
• Possession-stage checks, including Form 4: MahaRERA
• Certificate formats (Forms 1–5): MahaRERA new forms