How do I check the RERA Karnataka project list?

Open rera.karnataka.gov.in and use its public search for registered projects. Search by the RERA registration number if you have it, or by project name or promoter. Open the project, check the address and survey number against the bank’s sale notice, read the approvals and status, and save the page as a dated PDF.

How do I search a project on RERA Telangana?

Use the public search for registered projects on rera.telangana.gov.in. Search by project name, promoter or registration number, and open the matching project. Check that the address and survey number match the sale notice, read the declared completion date and uploaded approvals, and save the page with the date you viewed it.

Does every apartment project have to register under RERA?

No. Section 3(2) exempts projects on land of not more than 500 square metres or with not more than eight apartments, projects that received a completion certificate before the Act came into force, and renovation or repair with no new sale. A state may lower the size limits. So many older buildings have no RERA page.

What does a RERA project page show?

The details of the registration, the approvals taken and those still pending, the status of the project, updated quarterly, and the documents the state’s regulations require (s.11(1)). For a completed project, look for the completion or occupancy certificate. It does not show the title of an individual flat or any dues on it.

Does RERA protect a bank auction buyer?

Only in part, and it depends on the facts. RERA’s protections run mainly from the developer to the allottee, and the definition of allottee includes someone who later acquires the unit by sale or transfer (s.2(d)). A bank auction sale is on an “as is where is” basis, so take an advocate’s advice before relying on any RERA remedy.

What if the flat’s project has a possession delay?

An allottee whose developer misses the agreed date can withdraw with a refund and interest, or stay and receive interest for every month of delay (s.18). In an auction purchase you are not buying from the developer, so do not count on that remedy. If the project is incomplete, treat completion as a risk to plan for, and ask the Authorised Officer what stage it has reached.

How long does the developer have to fix structural defects?

A structural or workmanship defect brought to the developer’s notice within five years of the original handing over of possession must be rectified free of charge within thirty days (s.14(3)). The five years run from that first handover, not from your purchase at the auction, so check the date of the first handover for the building.

Does a RERA registration number mean the flat has clear title?

No. A RERA number means the project was registered by its promoter. It says nothing about the title to your flat today, the bank’s mortgage, unpaid maintenance or tax, or who is in occupation. Check those through the deeds, the encumbrance certificate, the Khata and the sale notice.

Title and due diligence

RERA Karnataka project list and Telangana RERA search: a bank auction buyer’s check

By Indresh Gowda, Co-Founder, Auction Dunia

Law and portal facts checked as of 5 November 2026 · 8 min read

The short answer

The RERA Karnataka project list is the public search on the Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority’s portal, where you find a project by name, promoter, district or registration number. For a bank auction flat, look up its project there, or on the Telangana RERA search for Hyderabad, to see approvals, the completion date and whether an occupancy certificate is uploaded.

Key points

RERA regulates sales by developers to allottees. A bank auction flat is usually a previous owner’s flat, not a new sale, but the project’s RERA page still tells you a lot about the building.
Search the project, not the flat: by RERA registration number, project name or promoter name.
Check the declared completion date, the approvals uploaded, and whether the completion or occupancy certificate is on the page.
RERA does not show title, the bank’s SARFAESI steps, unpaid dues, the Khata or who is in occupation.
Save the project page as a PDF with the date you viewed it.

What RERA registration is

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, known as RERA, regulates how developers sell flats and plots in new projects. It is written around the relationship between a developer (the Act calls them a promoter) and the people who buy from them (allottees).

Under RERA, a developer may not advertise, market, book or sell any unit in a real estate project without first registering the project with the state’s Real Estate Regulatory Authority (s.3(1)). Each state runs its own authority and portal: in Karnataka the Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority (K-RERA), and in Telangana the Telangana State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TG-RERA), each under the Act and the state’s own rules.

A registered project gets a registration number, which the developer must show in its advertisements. Real estate agents who sell units in registered projects register separately. For a buyer, the registration number is the key to the project’s public page.

Which projects must register, and the exemptions

Most apartment projects in Bengaluru and Hyderabad sold after RERA came into force had to register. The Act exempts three kinds of project (s.3(2)):

Small projects: land of not more than 500 square metres, or not more than eight apartments, counting all phases. A state may lower these thresholds.
Projects that had received their completion certificate before the Act came into force.
Renovation, repair or redevelopment that involves no new sale or allotment.

Projects that were still ongoing when the Act came into force, without a completion certificate, had to apply for registration (s.3(1), first proviso). So an older, completed building may have no RERA page at all. That is not a defect in itself; it means the records you need are elsewhere.

How to search the RERA Karnataka project list

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Find the project’s details
The project name, the developer’s name and, if possible, the RERA number, from the sale notice, the title deeds or the building itself.
2
Search the portal
On rera.karnataka.gov.in, use the public search for registered projects. Search by registration number where you have it, otherwise by project or developer name.
3
Match the project
Open the matching project and check that its address and survey number match the bank’s sale notice.
4
Save the page
Save the project page with the date you viewed it; the record is updated over time.

Portal layouts change, and older projects may be listed under names that differ from the building’s current name. If nothing turns up, check whether the project fell within an exemption before drawing any conclusion, and ask the Authorised Officer for the building’s completion or occupancy certificate instead. Our directory of official portals lists both state portals.

RERA search in Telangana

For a Hyderabad flat, use the public search for registered projects on rera.telangana.gov.in. Search by project name, promoter or registration number, check the address and survey number against the sale notice, and save the project page with the date. The page carries the same kinds of record as Karnataka’s: promoter details, approvals, declared completion and uploaded documents.

What the project page shows: project details and status

A registered developer must keep a public page on the authority’s website with the project’s details (s.11(1)). Among them:

the details of the registration granted;
the approvals taken, and those still pending after the commencement certificate, updated quarterly;
the status of the project, updated quarterly;
the documents and other information the state’s regulations require.

The developer is also responsible for obtaining the completion or occupancy certificate and making it available to the allottees or their association (s.11(4)(b)). For an auction buyer, the portal is a quick way to see whether the building’s approvals and completion were recorded, and what the developer declared about the land when it registered. A lapsed or extended registration is worth a question to the Authorised Officer, not a conclusion.

What RERA means for a bank auction buyer

A flat sold at a bank auction is usually not a new sale by a developer: it is the previous owner’s flat, sold by the bank to recover a loan. RERA’s protections run mainly between the developer and the allottee. The Act defines an allottee to include a person who later acquires the allotment “through sale, transfer or otherwise” (s.2(d)). Whether a buyer at a SARFAESI auction steps into those rights in a particular case depends on the facts, and is a question for an advocate.

Defects: a structural or workmanship defect reported to the developer within five years of the original handing over of possession must be rectified free, within thirty days (s.14(3)). The five years run from that first handover, not from your purchase.
Delay: if the developer fails to complete or give possession as agreed, the allottee may withdraw with a refund and interest, or stay and receive interest for every month of delay (s.18). In an auction purchase of a completed flat, this rarely arises. In an auction purchase you are not buying from the developer; if the project is incomplete, treat completion as a risk to plan for, not a right.
Complaints: any aggrieved person, including an association of allottees, can complain to the authority (s.31), and civil courts cannot hear matters the authority is empowered to decide (s.79).

What RERA cannot tell you

The owner’s title today. The portal shows what the developer declared at registration, not who owns the flat now or whether the chain of title is sound. That is read from the deeds and the encumbrance certificate.
The bank’s sale. Whether the bank followed the SARFAESI procedure is a separate check, and RERA has no role in it.
Dues. Unpaid property tax, electricity, water and maintenance are not on the RERA page.
The municipal record. The Khata or tax record is a different register, and a Khata is not title.
Possession. Who lives in the flat, and how it will be handed over, is a matter for the sale notice and, if occupied, the Section 14 route.

What the auction route cannot promise

RERA registration describes the project, not the title to a particular flat today.
RERA’s remedies run mainly from the developer to the allottee; whether an auction buyer can use one depends on the facts.
Older or small buildings may have no RERA page at all, because they were exempt or completed before the Act.
The project page is updated over time; a saved copy shows only what it said on the day you viewed it.

Questions buyers ask

Sources

Statutes, rules and judgments first. Checked as of 5 November 2026; the law and portal practice change, so confirm against the source before relying on a detail.

This guide explains the law and the process in general terms. It is not advice on any specific property; that belongs in a due diligence report on the property itself.

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