On GujRERA, New, Ongoing and Completed are not a project's status. They describe the type of registration the promoter applied for, and they stay the same for the life of the registration, whatever happens to the project afterwards. A buyer who reads New as fresh and on track can be reading a 2019 registration whose completion date passed years ago. This guide explains what each label means, what the numbers show, and how to read a Gujarat project's real position from its dates.
Key takeaways
- New, Ongoing and Completed on GujRERA are registration types: whether the project was a new launch or already under way when RERA came into force.
- Of the 3,151 registrations labelled Ongoing, 2,810 started before 1 May 2017 and 2,818 were registered in 2017 or 2018, as updated on 28 October 2026.
- Of the 14,119 labelled New, 6,863 had a filed completion date already in the past; the label had not changed on any of them.
- GujRERA files no lapse: the date the registration is valid until, extensions included, is the measure, and a revocation is the only change of standing it records.
Where the labels come from
The RERA Act made registration compulsory from 1 May 2017, and section 3 swept in two kinds of project: new launches, and projects already under way on that date that had no completion certificate yet. The label records which of the two kinds a registration was. The register's own numbers bear this out:
Source: ReraGenie analysis of 17,309 GujRERA registrations, as updated on 28 October 2026
Ongoing is the project already being built in 2017. Of the 3,151 so labelled, 2,810 filed a start date before 1 May 2017, and almost all were registered in the first two years:
Source: ReraGenie analysis of 17,309 GujRERA registrations, as updated on 28 October 2026
New is the new launch: 14,016 of the 14,119 so labelled started on or after 1 May 2017. Completed is a small group of 39, all registered in 2017 and 2018 and all with a start date before May 2017. The register does not say what made them Completed at registration, and a buyer should not read the word as a completion certificate: ask for the certificate itself.
What the labels never tell you
None of the three changes as time passes. A project registered as New in 2018 with a completion date of 2020 is still New in 2026, whether it was finished on time, finished late, extended twice or abandoned. As updated on 28 October 2026, 6,863 of the 14,119 New registrations, almost half, had a filed completion date already behind them, and 3,086 of the 3,151 Ongoing ones did too.
That is not a fault in the register, which records what it was designed to record: what kind of registration was granted, and on what dates. It is a reason to read a different field, and to treat any advertisement or broker who quotes the label as a status with care. National data shows why the habit matters: Gujarat is one of the largest RERA registers in India, third among the states for projects registered from 2017 to 2024 in PropEquity's count, with 16,265, so a misread label is a mistake repeated across thousands of projects.
What the label is still good for
The label is not useless; it answers a different question. Ongoing tells you the project began before the Act's registration rules applied, so its land, its approvals and its first sales predate the register. Some of its early buyers may have signed agreements written before RERA's terms existed, and the title report and the approvals deserve a closer read for that reason. New tells you the project registered before it launched, so its whole sales history should sit on the register, from the first quarterly return onwards. And Completed is a reason to ask for the completion and building use certificates themselves rather than a reason to stop asking.
Other registers draw the line differently. MahaRERA records a lapsed registration as lapsed; RERA Karnataka files status words but keeps a registration approved after its date has passed, as Karnataka's project status words explains. GujRERA files neither, which is why its dates carry the whole weight.
An analogy: the year on a school leaving certificate
A label on GujRERA is like the year printed on a school leaving certificate. It tells you when someone started out and on which track, and it is true for ever. It tells you nothing about what they have done since. To know that, you look at the record that keeps moving, and on GujRERA that record is the dates.
How to read a Gujarat project's standing instead
- 1
The filed completion date
The date the promoter committed to, as it stands after any extension. If it has passed, the registration was valid until then.
- 2
The original date and the extensions
The first promised date, and every extension application with its applied and approved dates. Each one moves the date and tells you how often.
- 3
The latest quarterly return
Its quarter, whether it was submitted or marked in default, and the construction stages in the architect's Form 1.
- 4
The bookings
How many units are recorded booked: a project far past its date with most units booked has buyers waiting.
- 5
Revocation
The only change of standing GujRERA files. If a revocation is on record, the project's page says so.
Source: ReraGenie, from the fields of a GujRERA project filing
What an extension means in law, and what it does not change in your agreement, is in RERA project extension under section 7. What you can claim when a date passes is in RERA rules for delayed possession, and how MahaRERA, which does record lapses, handles the same situation is in lapsed, revoked and deregistered MahaRERA projects.
GujRERA's register showed no revocations on any of the 17,309 registrations ReraGenie read as updated on 28 October 2026. That does not mean no Gujarat project has ever run into trouble; it means a revocation is rare and the register records nothing between "valid" and "revoked".
Hetal and Jignesh read a New project from 2019
Names and numbers in this story are illustrative. A broker showed Hetal a project near Chandkheda: "New, GujRERA registered, ready soon". The registration dated from 2019. The first completion date had been December 2022, an extension had moved it to December 2023, and that date had passed ten months earlier with no further extension on record. The latest quarterly return was from the spring of 2026 and put the finishing works at 60 percent. "New" was true, Hetal said: it was new in 2019. What they needed from the promoter was the date they could move in, in writing, and the reason the last one slipped.
What ReraGenie's free page shows
ReraGenie's free Gujarat page never prints New, Ongoing or Completed as a status. It prints the filed completion date as the date the registration is valid until, the original date beside it when an extension moved it, every extension applied for with its dates, how many units are recorded booked and the construction stages from the latest quarterly filing, so the position this guide describes is on one screen. Buyer reports, the project watch and alerts cover MahaRERA projects only for now. Open any project from the Gujarat project list, check it step by step with how to check a project on the GujRERA portal, and read the whole purchase in buying a flat in Gujarat.
This article is educational and not legal advice. For a dispute, consult a lawyer who practices before your state's RERA.
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