By 3 October 2026, 3,057 projects had registered with MahaRERA this year, each one now cleared to be advertised and sold. For anyone tracking new projects in Maharashtra in 2026, the register is the earliest public list there is: a project must register before it can take a booking, so it appears here before it appears on a hoarding. Read against 2025, this year's registrations tell a story the launch headlines do not. The Mumbai region held almost level, Pune slipped, and the rest of the state fell by a quarter.
Key takeaways
- As updated on 3 October 2026, 3,057 projects have registered with MahaRERA this year; from January to August, 2,661 registered, against 2,917 in the same months of 2025, 8.8 percent fewer.
- The five Mumbai region districts registered 1,353 projects in those eight months, 1.7 percent fewer than a year earlier, and Pune district 711, 5.8 percent fewer.
- Across the rest of Maharashtra, registrations fell 25.4 percent, from 764 to 570; Nashik fell from 201 to 135.
- The median project registered from January to August 2026 promises possession 44.6 months after registering, against 41.2 months a year earlier.
- ANAROCK counted about 1,14,320 homes launched in seven large cities from July to September 2026, 18 percent more than a year earlier, with MMR the largest at about 37,500.
The question this data answers
New supply is usually counted in launches: homes put on sale in a quarter, in the cities a research house tracks. The register counts something earlier and wider. Section 3 of the RERA Act bars a promoter from advertising, booking or selling in a project that must be registered until it is registered, and section 4 requires the application to carry the commencement certificate. A registration is therefore the moment a project becomes sellable, and the register records it in every district, not only the large cities.
That makes it the place to ask three questions: where new projects are coming up, how large they are as filed, and when they promise to be finished. It cannot say what they cost, because MahaRERA files no prices, or how well they will sell. Two things are missing from it by design. Projects small enough to be exempt, on up to 500 square metres of land or with up to eight apartments, never register; and a large project can appear more than once, because each phase registers as a project of its own.
Where the new projects are
Source: ReraGenie analysis of published MahaRERA registrations, as updated on 3 October 2026; registrations dated January to August of each year
Inside the Mumbai region the five districts moved in different directions. Mumbai Suburban rose 10.0 percent to 430 and Mumbai City to 80 from 62, while Thane fell 11.2 percent and Palghar 18.4 percent, leaving the region as a whole just under last year's count. Pune fell 5.8 percent. The rest of the state carried most of the decline.
| Where | January to August 2025 | January to August 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mumbai region, five districts | 1,377 | 1,353 | 1.7% fewer |
| Pune district | 755 | 711 | 5.8% fewer |
| Rest of Maharashtra | 764 | 570 | 25.4% fewer |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu | 21 | 27 | 6 more |
| All registrations | 2,917 | 2,661 | 8.8% fewer |
Outside the two regions, Nashik fell 32.8 percent, from 201 to 135, Aurangabad from 59 to 42, Satara from 61 to 37 and Ratnagiri from 51 to 30. Nagpur, which registered more projects this year than any other district outside the two regions, fell less, from 174 to 162; Nagpur's housing market in the register reads that district on its own. The last row is not a misprint: MahaRERA also registers projects in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
The months follow a pattern both years share. March, the last month of the financial year, was the busiest month in each, with 570 registrations in 2026 and 551 in 2025, and the gap between the two years opened mostly in July and August, when 2026 registered 493 projects against 721.
How large, and when they promise to finish
Fewer projects did not mean smaller ones. Of the projects registered from January to August 2026, 90.0 percent file a unit count, against 77.4 percent a year earlier, and among those that do, the median project holds 50 units and the average 100, against 48 and 93 in 2025. A few large towers pull the average up; the median is the typical project.
The promised dates are later. The median project registered from January to August 2026 promises possession 44.6 months after it registers, about three years and nine months, against 41.2 months for the same months of 2025. 36.3 percent promise to finish within three years, down from 42.2 percent, and 15.9 percent take more than five, up from 13.1 percent.
Source: ReraGenie analysis of 3,057 MahaRERA registrations in 2026, as updated on 3 October 2026; the first filed completion date of each project
A first date is a promise, not a forecast. Across the register, 22.6 percent of projects that file both dates now promise possession later than they first did, and MahaRERA's possession delay data shows how far dates have moved by registration year. The first date on a new registration is the one a buyer can hold the promoter to.
How quickly they find buyers
Projects registered from January to August 2026 report 3.3 percent of their filed units as sold or booked, 8,018 of 2,40,014. Those registered in the same months of 2025 now report 20.8 percent, 43,772 of 2,10,492. A new project's sold count starts near zero and builds as the promoter updates the filing, so a low sold share on a project registered this year says little, while the same share three years on says more.
Launches and registrations are two different counts
Research houses count launches. ANAROCK's figures for July to September 2026, as reported on 29 September, put new supply across seven large cities at about 1,14,320 homes, 18 percent more than a year earlier, with MMR the largest at about 37,500, up 27 percent, and Pune at 18,730. Sales across the seven cities rose 3 percent to 1,00,220 homes, though Pune's fell from a year earlier.
The two counts measure different things. ANAROCK counts homes launched in a quarter in the cities it tracks; the register counts projects, in every district, on the day they registered. A project can register months before its launch, or launch in phases that each register separately. Where the two overlap they point the same way: new supply is concentrated in the Mumbai region, and Pune's is not growing. MMR by the numbers and Pune's housing market in filings read each region's register in more depth.
An analogy: the arrivals board
The register is an airport's arrivals board, and a brochure is the passenger walking out of the gate. The board lists every flight cleared to land and the time it is due, long before anyone reaches the exit. It does not say who is on board or what they paid for their tickets, just as the register files no buyers and no prices.
Rohit watches his pincode
Rohit (illustrative, as our stories always are) booked his Wakad flat from abroad and plans to let it once he has the keys, through his brother-in-law, on the lines of a leave and licence agreement. What he can ask in rent will depend partly on how many flats are finished nearby at the same time, and he cannot drive past to see what is going up. So he set district alerts for Pune and reads each email for his own pincode, 411057.
By October the alerts had shown him a steady run of new projects, more than half of them across the planning line in Hinjewadi and Maan rather than in Wakad itself, the split PMRDA or PMC explains. Most promised possession in 2029 or later. He forwards the ones close to his tower to his brother-in-law, who photographs the sites on Sunday mornings. Names and numbers in this story are illustrative.
The register bears out the pattern in that pincode. Of the 30 projects registered in 411057 in 2026 to 3 October, against 26 in the same months of 2025, 14 are in Wakad and 16 in Hinjewadi, Maan and Marunji, and 25 of the 30 promise possession in 2029 or later.
If you own, let or are about to buy in a district, ReraGenie's district alerts email you its new registrations as they appear, free during the pilot beta, and every registration has a free page with its full filing.
A new registration is permission to sell, not evidence of anything else. Read the filing before the brochure: the permission chain, the land and its title report, and the promoter's other registrations and how they ended. And expect a project registered this month to show almost no sales for a while, because its sold count moves only when the promoter updates the filing.
What this means for you
- The register leads the brochures. A project you see advertised should already carry a registration number, and checking it takes minutes; a project on the register may not be on a hoarding yet.
- Read the promised date first. Most of 2026's registrations promise possession between 2028 and 2030. Hold that against your own plans before you compare prices.
- Judge sales by age. A sold share near zero is normal for a project registered this year, and says nothing yet about demand.
- Watch supply around a flat you own. New registrations near a flat you plan to let or sell are the competition it will meet when they finish.
What the report adds for one project
Every new registration has a free ReraGenie page with its full filing, and the district pages list every registration in each district. The Rs 499 buyer report reads one project in its neighbourhood: the projects within 2 km of it and how each has ended, its construction pace against other recent projects in the district, and its possession story from the first promised date to the current one.
Methodology and sources
- ReraGenie analysis of 56,068 published MahaRERA registrations, as updated on 3 October 2026. Years and months are by registration date.
- Year-on-year comparisons use January to August of each year, the last complete months at the time of writing. 65 projects registered in 2025 file no district; each is placed in the district most projects in its pincode file.
- The Mumbai region here means the five districts of Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban, Thane, Palghar and Raigad; the statutory region's boundary does not follow them exactly.
- Unit counts and sold or booked units come from the building table, for projects that file it. Promised possession is the first filed completion date; the share of projects whose date has moved compares it with the current one.
- ANAROCK Research, residential data for July to September 2026, as reported by Business Today on 29 September 2026 and by Outlook Money.
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