Buyer’s guide
How to check a MahaRERA registration yourself
It takes about four minutes, it is free, and it is the single most useful thing you can do before paying anybody a rupee.
Why the number matters
In Maharashtra a residential project above a certain size has to be registered with MahaRERA before it can be advertised or sold. The registration number is not decoration on a brochure. It is the key to a public file that the promoter cannot edit to suit a sales conversation.
Anyone can read that file. Almost nobody does.
First, the two numbers people mix up
There are two separate registrations and they do different jobs.
The project registration is held by the promoter — the developer building the homes. It usually begins with P. This is the one that tells you the project is legally allowed to be sold.
The agent registration is held by whoever is selling it to you. It usually begins with A. Ours is A011052601566, and you can look it up the same way you look up a project. Please do.
An agent number is not a substitute for a project number. If someone shows you their agent registration when you asked about the project, they have answered a different question.
How to search
Go to maharera.maharashtra.gov.in and find the public project search. The labels on the site shift from time to time, but you are looking for Registered Projects under the registration section, and there is a map view if you would rather find it that way.
You can search by the registration number, by the project name, or by the promoter’s name. Searching by promoter is the more revealing option: it shows you everything that promoter has registered, not only the project being sold to you today.
What to actually read once you are in
Finding the entry is the easy half. These are the parts worth your attention.
The promoter’s name. It should match the company on the paperwork you are being asked to sign. A mismatch here is worth stopping over, not explaining away.
The proposed completion date. This is the date declared to the regulator, and it is frequently later than the date a salesperson quotes across a table. Where the two disagree, the filing is the one that counts.
The sanctioned plans and the approved building layout. Check that the tower, the floor count and the amenity you are being sold actually appear.
The quarterly progress updates. Promoters are required to keep these current. A project whose updates stopped two years ago is telling you something.
Complaints and orders. If buyers have taken the promoter to the authority, the orders are public. Read them before you decide they do not matter.
Four answers that should stop you
“Registration is applied for.” Applied for is not registered. Until it is granted, the project cannot legally be advertised, and a registered agent is not permitted to facilitate a sale in a project that is required to be registered and is not.
“The number is for the whole township.” Phases are usually registered separately. Make sure the number covers the phase and the tower your flat is in.
“It is the same group, just a different company.” Perhaps. The promoter on the filing is the entity you would have to pursue if something went wrong.
“We will show you at the site office.” The register is public and online. There is no reason you should have to be in a room to see it.
Where we stand on this
We read the filing before we agree to represent an address, and we would rather you checked our work than took it on trust. That is the whole of our approach, and it is why the area guides tell you to verify the number yourself rather than quoting it at you.
The project we currently represent, Prime Mundhwa, is in pre-launch. Its registration number will be published here and given to the priority access list as soon as the developer supplies it, and no booking is taken before then. If you want to understand why that sequence matters, read what pre-launch actually means.
Questions we have not answered here?
Ask us directly. We would rather talk you out of the wrong home than into it.