ReraGenie now covers Karnataka: about 9,000 RERA projects in all 31 districts

ReraGenie Karnataka is live: every registration on RERA Karnataka that ReraGenie reads now has its own free project page, in all 31 districts, from the 4,146 in Bengaluru Urban to the 10 in Kodagu. That is about 9,000 projects, read from the register's own filings and laid out the same way as the 56,000 Maharashtra projects the site already carries. This note says what a Karnataka page shows, where it differs from a Maharashtra page, and what is not offered for Karnataka yet.

Where the projects are#

Karnataka's register is lopsided in a way Maharashtra's is not. Bengaluru Urban alone holds almost half of it, and the next district is a sixth of its size. The chart shows the ten largest districts; 21 more follow, most with fewer than 100 registrations.

The market behind those filings is active. ANAROCK put Bengaluru's housing sales for July to September 2026 at about 16,670 units, up 12 percent on the same quarter of 2025, with average prices up 8 percent. And Karnataka is a mid-sized register by national standards: PropEquity's count of projects registered between January 2017 and January 2025 placed it seventh among the states.

Registrations also differ in kind. Of the 9,040, 4,792 are residential or group housing, 3,440 are plotted developments, 591 are mixed and 211 are commercial. Plotted layouts are a far larger share than in Maharashtra, and in Mysore they are most of the register.

What a Karnataka page shows#

Every page follows the same order as a Maharashtra page, built from the project's own RERA Karnataka filing:

• The registration and its dates: the registration number, the date it was approved, the completion date the promoter promised, and every extension on record with the date it moved to.
• Booked and unsold units: the page states how many of the units the latest filing records as sold or booked, out of the total. RERA Karnataka's own word is booked: its quarterly update files units as booked or available, never as sold.
• Construction stages and shared amenities: each activity on the RERA checklist with the percentage the promoter filed in the latest quarterly update, and the same for lifts, roads, water and the other common works.
• Land and money: the land area, the named landowners, the separate project account where one is declared, and the estimated and incurred cost line by line.
• Complaints, certifiers and documents: the count of complaints on the registration, the architect, engineer and chartered accountant who certified it, and every filed document. Karnataka files its land papers per survey number, so the list carries the RTC, mutation, encumbrance certificate, conversion order and title deed for each survey number the promoter uploaded.
• The promoter's record: their other registrations on RERA Karnataka and the earlier projects they declared.

What a Karnataka page will not say#

Two words from Maharashtra pages are missing on purpose. RERA Karnataka does not record a registration as lapsed: it keeps a project listed as approved after its completion date has passed, so the page prints the filed date, extensions included, and does not call it lapsed. And the register files units as booked or available rather than sold. Where a field is not filed, the page leaves it out instead of printing a zero. To see that on a project you are weighing, open it from the Karnataka project list: every page is free to read in full.

Why read a register at all#

A new register is like a second library with its own catalogue. The books are the same kind, the shelves are arranged differently, and some of the cards carry more than you are used to. Karnataka's cards carry more than Maharashtra's in places: on its newer registrations the register files the carpet area of every flat, the title chain of every survey number and the progress of every floor of every tower, quarter by quarter. Reading it in the same layout as the Maharashtra pages is what lets a buyer compare a Whitefield tower with a Wakad one on the same terms. What the register is and how the regulator works are in what RERA is, and the first check any buyer runs, in any state, is in how to check a project is RERA registered.

Ananya and Karthik open their first Karnataka page#

Names and numbers in this story are illustrative. Ananya and Karthik had been reading Maharashtra pages for a cousin in Pune, so they knew where to look on their first Bengaluru one. The completion date came first: two years out, with one Covid extension on record. Then the booked figure, 64 of 112 units, and the construction stages, with the structure at 40 percent. The difference was in the land section. Their project stood on three survey numbers, and the documents list named an RTC, a mutation record, an encumbrance certificate and a conversion order for each of them. They wrote the survey numbers down and took the list to their lawyer. Two things they read on the RERA Karnataka portal itself: their flat's row in the carpet area table and the khata recorded for each survey number, which the free page does not repeat.

What is not offered for Karnataka yet#

Buyer reports, the project watch and alerts cover MahaRERA projects only for now, so a Karnataka page carries no buy button. Everything on a Karnataka page is free to read, and a free account keeps a shortlist that works for Karnataka projects as well as Maharashtra ones. Gujarat followed the same way, described in ReraGenie now covers Gujarat.

Two Karnataka filings are worth knowing about before you visit a sales office: the per-flat carpet area table, which the next articles in this series explain how to read on the RERA Karnataka portal, and the land papers. What an encumbrance certificate is, in any state, is in what is an encumbrance certificate, and why carpet area is the only area that counts is in carpet area vs built-up vs super built-up. The whole purchase, stage by stage, is in buying a flat in Karnataka.

Start with the district you are buying in: Bengaluru Urban's district page lists every project there, largest first.