How to verify a project's RERA registration in 10 minutes

A RERA registration number on a hoarding is an invitation, not a conclusion. The registration record behind it — free, public, and current — tells you who really owns the land, what has been sanctioned, and whether the promised date is the one filed with the regulator. Here is the ten-minute check we run before any project goes live on Crestwoods.

Step 1 — find the registration number

Uttar Pradesh numbers look like UPRERAPRJ446129; Gurugram registrations look like RC/REP/HARERA/GGM/2024/118; Delhi issues numbers like DLRERA2023P0042. The number must appear on every advertisement, brochure and listing page — its absence on marketing material is itself a violation worth noting. On our project pages the number sits in the RERA strip with a link to the issuing authority.

Step 2 — pull the record on the state portal

Go directly to the state portal — up-rera.in for Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad, haryanarera.gov.in for Gurugram and Faridabad, rera.delhi.gov.in for Delhi — and use the registered-projects search. Search by the registration number, not the marketing name: projects are often registered under the land-owning entity or a phase name that differs from the hoarding. If the number returns nothing, stop and ask the developer for the exact registered name and phase.

Step 3 — read these five fields

One: the promoter entity — the company on the registration should be the company on your builder-buyer agreement; a different SPV is common but should be explainable in writing. Two: the project completion date filed with the authority, which is the legally meaningful date, not the "expected possession" in the brochure. Three: the sanctioned plan and tower list — confirm the tower you are booking exists in the sanction. Four: quarterly progress updates (QPRs), which registered projects must file; a project that has skipped two consecutive quarters deserves a pointed question. Five: the litigation and complaints tab, read with judgement — a large project attracting a handful of complaints is normal, a pattern of identical complaints is not.

Step 4 — save two documents

Download and keep two PDFs from the portal before you pay a token: the registration certificate itself, and the sanctioned layout or building plan attached to the registration. The certificate fixes the promoter, the phase and the completion date as of today — if any of them quietly changes later, you hold the before picture. The sanctioned plan is what you will compare the demand letters against: a CLP instalment tied to "completion of the 12th floor slab" only means something if the sanctioned plan shows a tower of at least that height. Sales offices rarely volunteer either document; the portal gives you both without asking anyone.

While you are there, open the latest quarterly progress report and note two numbers: the percentage of physical progress and the money withdrawn from the RERA-designated account. Progress that trails withdrawals quarter after quarter is the earliest visible symptom of the problems that later become headlines.

Red flags that end the conversation

An expired registration without a filed extension. A completion date that has been extended more than twice. A promoter entity that does not match any name on the agreement. Marketing an unregistered phase on the strength of a registered earlier phase. Any request to sign on an "application form" that references no RERA number at all. None of these is cured by a discount.

On Crestwoods, the RERA verified mark means our team has matched the listing against the portal record in the last quarter — the date of the check is shown next to the mark. It supplements the portal; it never replaces your own ten minutes.