GujRERA is the Gujarat Real Estate Regulatory Authority, the body the RERA Act of 2016 set up in each state to register real estate projects, publish what promoters file and hear buyers' complaints. If you are buying a flat in Ahmedabad, Surat or Vadodara, GujRERA is where the project's promises are written down. This explainer covers what it registers, what a project's page on its portal holds, how it enforces, and the one thing its register does not record.
Key takeaways
- GujRERA registers projects and agents under the RERA Act 2016; Gujarat notified its general rules under the Act on 4 May 2017.
- ReraGenie read 17,309 GujRERA registrations as updated on 28 October 2026, between 1,080 and 3,203 a year since 2017.
- Its portal files more per project than most registers: every unit type's carpet area, a table of every flat with its booking, the town planning scheme, and a quarterly return marked submitted or in default.
- It files no standing: the labels New, Ongoing and Completed describe the type of registration, so the filed completion date is the only honest measure of whether a project is late.
What GujRERA registers
Two things: projects and real estate agents. Section 3 of the RERA Act makes registration compulsory for any project whose land exceeds 500 square metres or which has more than eight apartments across its phases, and a promoter cannot advertise, book or sell a flat in an unregistered one. Gujarat notified its general rules under the Act on 4 May 2017. Projects already under way on 1 May 2017 without a completion certificate had to register as well, which is why the register's oldest entries date from 2017.
Source: ReraGenie analysis of 17,309 GujRERA registrations, as updated on 28 October 2026
The 2018 peak is the catch-up of projects that were already being built when the Act came into force: 1,875 of the 3,203 registered that year carry the label Ongoing. Since 2021 the register has added between about 1,650 and 1,900 registrations a year. Nationally, PropEquity's count of projects registered from 2017 to 2024 put Gujarat third among the states, with 16,265, behind Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
What a project's page on the portal holds
A GujRERA project page is more detailed than most RERA registers. For each registration the promoter files:
- The registration: the number, the date, the type (residential, mixed, commercial or plotted), the start date and the completion date, with every extension application on record.
- The units: the carpet area of each unit type, filed on 17,296 of the 17,309 registrations, and on 16,189 of them a table of every flat with its carpet area, whether it is booked, and the agreement value of a booked flat.
- The land: the survey or city survey number, the town planning scheme and final plot where the land sits in one, and the authority that approved the plan.
- The quarterly returns: one per quarter, each marked submitted, exempt or in default, carrying the architect's Form 1, the engineer's Form 2 and the accountant's Form 3.
- The documents: the registration certificate, the approved plans, the title report, the encumbrance certificate, the proforma agreement for sale and three years of the promoter's accounts.
- The applications: annual compliance, extensions, alterations and complaints, each with its dates. Complaint rows appear on 4,084 registrations.
How to find each of these on the portal is in how to check a project on the GujRERA portal.
What GujRERA does not record
A standing. GujRERA's New, Ongoing and Completed are registration types. Broadly, New marks a project launched after the Act came into force and Ongoing one already under way when it did; Completed is a small group of 39, all registered in 2017 and 2018. None of them changes when the completion date passes, and the register has no field that says a registration has lapsed. As updated on 28 October 2026, 6,863 registrations still carried New although their filed completion date had passed. So the right question about a Gujarat project is never "what does its label say" but "what date did the promoter file, and has it passed".
An analogy: a notary's register of promises
GujRERA works like a notary's register. It records what the promoter promised, on which date, and with which papers attached. It checks that the papers are in order when they are filed. It does not walk the site every month, and its register does not cross out a promise when the date goes by. That is your job, with the register's dates in hand.
How GujRERA enforces
Through complaints, orders and penalties. A buyer files online: a complaint to the Authority about a breach of the Act goes in Form A, with a fee of Rs 1,000 according to the portal's complaint page, and a claim for compensation goes in Form B to the adjudicating officer, the separate officer section 71 of the Act provides for. GujRERA issued a standard operating procedure for both forms as Order No. 113 of 22 November 2025, in force from 1 January 2026, which moves notices and hearing dates online. An order can be appealed to the Gujarat Real Estate Appellate Tribunal. The general mechanics of a RERA complaint are in how to file a RERA complaint, Gujarat's own forms, fees and what the register already shows about a project's complaints are in GujRERA complaint, and what an extension does and does not change is in RERA project extension under section 7.
An extension on GujRERA does not move the date in your agreement for sale. If the completion date has moved, your claim under section 18 of the Act still runs from the date you were promised.
Hetal and Jignesh read their first GujRERA page
Names and numbers in this story are illustrative. Hetal opened the GujRERA page of a 2019 project in Gota and saw New beside it. The completion date read December 2023, with one extension to December 2024, and the latest quarterly return was marked submitted in the summer of 2026 with the structure at 85 percent. New, she realised, said when the project was registered, not how it was doing. Jignesh found the unit type they wanted, a 3BHK with a filed carpet area of 84 square metres, and checked it against the brochure's figure, which counted far more. Their questions for the sales office wrote themselves: why the date moved, and what the agreement would say about it.
What ReraGenie's free page shows
ReraGenie lays out every GujRERA registration it reads on a free page: the completion date and every extension applied for, how many units are recorded booked, construction stages building by building, the cost lines, the certifying architect and engineer, and every filed document with its upload date. It prints the filed date as the date the registration is valid until and never a standing word. Buyer reports, the project watch and alerts cover MahaRERA projects only for now. Open any Gujarat project from the Gujarat project list, or read what ReraGenie's Gujarat pages show. The whole purchase, stage by stage, is in buying a flat in Gujarat, and how the regulator works in any state is in what RERA is.
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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