Nagpur district holds 2,883 published MahaRERA projects, and the Nagpur property market they describe is unlike any other large market in the state. Almost half of them, 1,296, sell plots rather than flats: developed layouts on the city's edge where the buyer builds the house. That is 45.2 percent of every plotted project registered in Maharashtra, in a district holding about 5 percent of the state's registrations. A buyer reading Nagpur with a flat buyer's questions alone is reading half the market.
Key takeaways
- As updated on 3 October 2026, Nagpur district has 2,883 published MahaRERA projects, and 1,296 of them (45.0 percent) are plotted layouts, against 5.1 percent statewide.
- Of the projects that name the body that sanctioned them, 40.6 percent name NMRDA, 19.3 percent the municipal corporation and 13.2 percent the Nagpur Improvement Trust; NMRDA sanctions most of the plotted layouts.
- 20.2 percent of Nagpur's projects are Lapsed, against 24.8 percent statewide, and 13.7 percent promise possession later than they first did, against 22.6 percent.
- 62 Nagpur registrations are De-Registered, 2.2 percent against 0.9 percent statewide, and 50 of them are in Nagpur (Urban) taluka.
- PropEquity counted 6,260 homes sold in Nagpur in 2025, 18 percent fewer than the 7,653 of 2024.
The question this data answers
Nagpur's market is usually described through its prices and its infrastructure: the metro, MIHAN, the Samruddhi expressway. The register answers something more basic. What is actually being sold, plots or flats, and where; which body sanctioned it; and how the projects registered since 2017 have ended. MahaRERA files no prices, so the register cannot say what anything costs. What it can say is which questions a buyer in this district should be asking, and those differ for a plot and for a flat.
Where the projects are
Source: ReraGenie analysis of 2,883 published MahaRERA registrations in Nagpur district, as updated on 3 October 2026
Three talukas hold nearly 90 percent of the district's projects. Nagpur (Urban) is broadly the city; Nagpur (Rural) wraps around it, Hingna lies to its west and Kamptee to its north-east. The district had 46,53,570 people at the 2011 census, 24,05,665 of them inside the municipal corporation, so the city and its fringe carry the market between them.
A market of plots
Source: ReraGenie analysis of 2,883 published MahaRERA registrations in Nagpur district, as updated on 3 October 2026; project type as filed
The 2017 figure is large because ongoing projects without a completion certificate had to register when the law took effect, and most of those were apartment buildings. Since 2020, 54.5 percent of the district's new registrations have been plotted layouts, and in 2026 two in three are. The plots sit mainly in Nagpur (Rural), with 687 plotted projects, and Hingna, with 305; Nagpur (Urban) has only 71. Neighbouring Wardha district shows the same pattern, with 223 of its 293 projects plotted.
A plotted layout's filing reads differently from a tower's. There is no building table, so unit counts are filed on only 19.8 percent of Nagpur's projects, against 34.0 percent of published projects statewide. The development works the promoter files, roads, drains, water and lighting, are what the registration covers; the house is the buyer's to build, under a separate permission.
An analogy: a cloth shop, not a showroom
Judging Nagpur by its apartment towers is like judging a tailor's shop by the shirts on its rack. Much of what this shop sells is cloth cut to size, and the stitching is the customer's. A plot buyer gets the land and the layout's services; the building, its sanction and its builder are decisions still to come.
Who sanctions what
| Body named on the filing | Projects | Where it shows up |
|---|---|---|
| Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) | 484 | Outside the city: 289 of the 433 Nagpur (Rural) projects naming a body; 408 of the 591 plotted layouts that name one |
| Nagpur Municipal Corporation | 230 | 211 in Nagpur (Urban); mostly apartment projects |
| Nagpur Improvement Trust | 157 | 139 in Nagpur (Urban); mostly apartment projects |
| Municipal councils and nagar panchayats | 138 | Besa-Pipla, Wanadongri, Hingna, Wadi and others |
| Collector, tehsildar or town planning office | 99 | Layouts in Nagpur (Rural), Hingna and Katol |
| MHADA | 26 | Mostly apartment projects |
| Others | 57 | MIDC and the airport development company (MADC), 8 each; 37 filings name something other than a planning body, such as a developers' association, a company or a person |
1,191 of the district's 2,883 projects, 41.3 percent, name a sanctioning body, and naming it is a recent habit: 9.8 percent of 2017 registrations do, against 91.1 percent of 2025's. Inside the city two bodies sanction apartment projects side by side, which is why the body on the filing matters more than the address. Building rules differ too: Nagpur's city-specific regulations apply within the corporation, and NMRDA's own regulations govern the region around it.
How they have ended
| Taluka | Projects | Active | Completed | Lapsed | De-Registered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nagpur (Urban) | 1,152 | 33.5% | 40.5% | 21.7% | 4.3% |
| Nagpur (Rural) | 1,037 | 38.7% | 43.6% | 16.9% | 0.8% |
| Hingna | 396 | 48.5% | 29.3% | 21.7% | 0.5% |
| Kamptee | 139 | 46.0% | 28.8% | 23.7% | 1.4% |
| Nagpur district | 2,883 | 38.9% | 38.7% | 20.2% | 2.2% |
| Maharashtra | 56,068 | 35.4% | 38.7% | 24.8% | 0.9% |
Nagpur's projects have closed better on the register than the state's on two measures. Its Lapsed share, 20.2 percent, is below the state's 24.8, and its dates have moved less: 13.7 percent of its projects now promise possession later than they first did, against 22.6 percent statewide, and 15.5 percent carry an extension granted on application, against 23.8 percent. Part of that is the mix, since plotted layouts involve less construction: 8.6 percent of Nagpur's plotted projects have a later date, against 17.3 percent of its apartment projects. But the apartment figure is still below the state's 23.6 percent for apartment projects.
One status stands out. Nagpur has 5.1 percent of the state's projects and 62 of its 500 De-Registered registrations, 12.4 percent. Fifty of them are in Nagpur (Urban), 48 are apartment projects, and 43 were registered in 2022 or 2023. De-registration is the promoter's own exit, which MahaRERA allows essentially only where no buyer would be stranded, as lapsed, revoked, deregistered explains. No Nagpur registration has been revoked.
What is being built now
Nagpur district registered 281 projects in 2025 and 183 in 2026 to 3 October, 120 of them plotted. From January to August it registered 162 against 174 in the same months of 2025, a smaller fall than in most districts outside Mumbai and Pune. Nashik, read the same way, is in the Nashik property market. Among Active projects that file unit counts, 454 projects carrying 39,970 units, 30.9 percent of the units are sold or booked, against 38.1 percent statewide; in Nagpur (Urban) the share is 30.0 percent.
The sales side tells a similar story from outside the register. PropEquity counted 6,260 homes sold in Nagpur in 2025, down 18 percent from 7,653 in 2024, in a year when sales across the 15 tier-II cities it tracks fell 10 percent by volume. Infrastructure is moving more slowly than some brochures suggest: the second phase of the Nagpur Metro was expected in February 2026 to open only by 2029.
Suresh and Kavita's first shortlist
Before Pune, Suresh and Kavita (illustrative, as our stories always are) looked at Nagpur. Kavita had worked there for some years in her bank, and they knew the city. Reading the district's register, they found that much of what was on offer at their budget was plots on the edge, in Hingna and along the Wardha Road villages. A plot meant building a house in their late fifties: a sanction to obtain, a contractor to manage and a site to supervise for years. The apartment projects were mostly inside the city, and on those they learned to read which body had sanctioned each one before reading anything else. Names and numbers in this story are illustrative.
They chose Pune in the end, for reasons that had more to do with family than with filings. The habit came with them.
A plotted layout's registration covers the layout, not the house. Before you pay for a plot, find the layout's sanction from the body named on the filing, read the plot on the 7/12 extract, and confirm which roads, drains and water lines the promoter has filed as its works. The house will need its own building permission.
If you are weighing a Nagpur project, its free ReraGenie page carries the full filing, including the layout approval slot in the permission chain, and district alerts for Nagpur email new registrations as they appear, free during the pilot beta.
What this means for you
- Ask plot or flat first. In Nagpur the answer decides every later check. For a plot, the layout sanction and the 7/12 extract matter most; for a flat, the building's commencement certificate and progress.
- Read the body, not the locality. NMRDA, the corporation and the improvement trust all sanction projects in and around the city, and only the body named on the filing can confirm its permission.
- Read a De-Registered status for what it is. It is the promoter's exit before sales, not a project that failed buyers, but a pattern of them on one promoter's record is worth noticing.
- Hold infrastructure to its dates. A station or road promised for a layout should be checked against the authority's own timeline, not the brochure's.
What the report adds for one project
ReraGenie's free Nagpur district page lists every registration and shows which bodies sanction building there. The Rs 499 buyer report reads one project in that context: the projects within 2 km and how each has ended, its possession story from the first promised date to the current one, and the promoter's other registrations and how each ended. Land and title are answered as five questions, including who owns the land as filed and whether it is mortgaged, which for a plot is most of what there is to check.
Methodology and sources
- ReraGenie analysis of 56,068 published MahaRERA registrations, 2,883 of them filed in Nagpur district, as updated on 3 October 2026. Talukas, villages and project types are as filed.
- Sanctioning bodies are read from the filing's own field, with spellings of the same body counted together; 1,191 Nagpur projects name one.
- Date revisions compare the first filed completion date with the current one; extensions exclude the common extension of 7 August 2026. Sold or booked shares count units in Active projects that file the building table.
- Population: Census of India 2011.
- Sales: PropEquity's 2025 report on 15 tier-II cities, as reported by PTI in February 2026.
- Metro phase 2: The Hitavada, 10 February 2026.
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