How to check a project on the RERA Karnataka portal, tab by tab

To check a project on RERA Karnataka you need ten minutes, the registration number from the advertisement and one rule: type the portal address, rera.karnataka.gov.in, into the browser yourself. Never verify a project through a link, a PDF or a screenshot the sales office sends. This is the complete check, eight steps across the tabs of the project page, with what you should see at each step and what a red flag looks like.

Before you start#

Have the registration number written down as it appears in the advertisement or brochure. The project you are being sold must be the project the number belongs to: phases are registered separately in Karnataka as everywhere else, so a second tower can sit on a different registration from the first. What the regulator is and does is in what is RERA Karnataka; this guide is only the portal.

The eight steps#

Step by step, with what each tab means#

Find the registration. A registration number reads like PRM/KA/RERA followed by several groups of digits. Search it exactly. If you only have a project name, search by name or by promoter, or search the whole district: the register returns every registration in a district with its status, its dates and any extension, which is also the quickest way to see what else is being built around your shortlist.

Read the status and the dates. RERA Karnataka files one of four words for a registration: approved, withdrawn, transferred (which the register spells transfered) or revoked. Of the 9,040 registrations as updated on 19 October 2026, 8,937 read approved, 59 withdrawn, 40 transferred and 4 revoked. Approved does not mean on time: the register does not mark a registration lapsed, so read the completion date and the extension history. What each word means, and what it does not, is in what a RERA Karnataka status means.

Promoter Details. This is the entity your agreement for sale must be with. A company files its CIN, and the register's promoter record lists the promoter's other registrations in Karnataka and a yes or no answer to whether it holds RERA registrations in other states; 114 registrations answer yes. The other registrations are where a builder's track record starts.

Project Details. The plan approval number, its date and the authority that issued it, then the units. On just over half of all registrations this tab carries a table of every flat: floor, flat number, BHK type and carpet area. If your flat's row says a different carpet area from the agreement draft, that is the question to ask before you sign; carpet area vs built-up vs super built-up explains why carpet is the only area that binds the promoter.

Land Details. For each survey number, the promoter files the land type (own land, land under a joint development agreement, or both), how it was acquired, the conversion order that changed its use from agriculture, the deed, and the khatha. Of 16,872 survey-number rows on the register, 98 percent record a conversion order.

Bank Details. The separate account into which the promoter must deposit buyer money for this project. It should be named in your agreement, and your payments should go into it.

Quarterly Updates. Completion percentage for each floor of each tower, the units booked and available by type, and the advance collected from buyers against the amount withdrawn. Check the date of the newest update first. Promoters must file within 15 days of each quarter's end, and the authority now prices a missed one: according to a TeamLease RegTech summary of its February 2026 circular, each update missed or filed late between 2017 and March 2025 carries a penalty of Rs 25,000.

Complaints and documents. The page counts complaints filed against this project and, separately, against the promoter across its other registrations. Then the uploaded documents: the plan, the NOCs, the promoter's financial statements and the land papers.

How often each land paper is actually on file differs widely:

An analogy: reading a medical report, not the clinic's brochure#

A clinic's brochure tells you about the doctors and the equipment. Your report tells you about you, in a format every lab uses, with reference ranges beside each number. The project page is the report: standardised, sworn and laid out the same way for every project in the state, which is what lets you put two of them side by side. Read the out-of-range values first. On this page those are the dates, the quarter of the latest update and the complaints.

Ananya and Karthik run it from a sales office#

Names and numbers in this story are illustrative. Ananya and Karthik ran the check on a phone while a sales executive in Whitefield fetched brochures. Number: found. Promoter: matched the draft. Completion date: two years away, one Covid extension on record. Land: three survey numbers, each with a conversion order and an encumbrance certificate. Quarterly update: filed for the July to September quarter, 41 percent of 220 flats booked. Then the snag: the promoter's complaints count read 31 across its other projects. It did not end the conversation, but it changed it. They asked what the complaints were about and how many had been resolved, and the answer, two delayed handovers in an older phase, is what they took to their lawyer.

If you are checking several projects, a free account keeps the ones you saved in one shortlist you can open on any device, so the pages you have already read are one click away when the next update is filed.

What the check cannot tell you#

The page tells you what the promoter filed. Whether the filing is true is a separate question: the title is checked by a lawyer and the encumbrance certificate, as what is an encumbrance certificate explains, and whether the building matches its plan is checked on site. Complaints filed are not complaints won, and orders won are not always paid: figures reported by The Realty Today from a Moneycontrol document put the refunds ordered against Karnataka promoters at over Rs 627 crore by August 2024, with about Rs 79.9 crore recovered. The register is the floor of your checking, not the ceiling.

The free page does the reading order for you#

ReraGenie's free page for every RERA Karnataka project puts the same filing in one reading order: the completion date and every extension, how many units the latest filing records as sold or booked out of the total, the construction stage furthest along, the named landowners, the cost lines, the complaints count and every filed document, with the land papers listed per survey number. Buyer reports, the project watch and alerts cover MahaRERA projects only for now. Find a project from the Karnataka project list, or from its district page.

Printable checklist#

• Typed the portal address myself and searched the exact registration number.
• Project name, promoter and district match what I am being sold.
• Status read, then the completion date and every extension.
• Promoter entity matches the agreement draft; other registrations noted.
• My flat's row found in the per-flat table, carpet area matches the draft.
• Each survey number has a conversion order, a deed and an encumbrance certificate.
• Separate bank account named; my agreement names the same account.
• Latest quarterly update is the most recent quarter, or I know why not.
• Complaints on the project and on the promoter counted and asked about.