What Horizon means by true

Last updated 20 September 2026

Horizon is built on public records: roughly 1.29 lakh RERA registrations across 22 states, the valuation schedules those states publish beside them, and what each approving authority has cleared. Most of this site is that record, shown plainly, with the source named on every figure.

Horizon tries its best to seek the truth, and to be honest about how far it got. Those two belong together: the effort means nothing if the limits aren’t stated, and stating limits means nothing without the effort. What follows is how that works in practice, so you can check it rather than take it on faith.

The record is not the truth

A RERA filing is what a promoter declared, on a date, to an authority. Some of it is verified; much of it is taken as filed. The record can be shaped long before it reaches us:

• By the people filing it.A project’s own figures are entered by the party selling it. Dates move. Areas are stated in units that flatter them.
• By governments. States publish unevenly. Some name every complaint against a project; others publish none at all. Some never record a completion. A silent register is not a clean one.
• By business. What gets filed, and when, follows what is useful to file.
• And by machines.Portals truncate. PDFs mangle columns. The same village name appears in four districts. None of that is anyone’s intent, and all of it lands in the data.

So Horizon treats no single source as the truth. It sets them beside each other — the register, the state’s own valuation schedule, the authority’s record, the map — and shows where they agree and where they don’t. What you get is the most believable account that public record supports. That is a different thing from certainty, and the pages say which one they are giving you.

What Horizon will not do

• No score, no grade, no stars. A number like that is a judgement wearing a fact’s clothes.
• No verdict — positive or negative. Horizon does not call a project safe, risky, good or bad.
• No prediction. The record says what has happened, not what will.
• No filling a gap with a plausible figure. A blank is information; an invented number is not.

What “believable” looks like in practice

These are the rules, and each one costs something real:

• Say where it came from. Every figure names the register or the department that published it.
• Say how close it is.A rate matched to this project’s own survey number and a rate that is a whole district’s middle are both useful — and never shown as the same thing.
• Never convert what the source didn’t define. Bihar prices some land by the katha, and a katha is not the same size in Gaya as in Bhagalpur. So 108 projects there show no rate rather than a converted guess.
• Skip rather than reach.In Rajasthan, 1,244 villages publish farm assessments and nothing else. A farmland rate is not a home’s rate, so those projects stay blank.
• Test before trusting. Gujarat leaves the rate columns unlabelled in 31 of its 33 urban rate books. Those columns are read only because the pattern the two labelled books prove — shop above office, office above flat, flat above open plot, farmland far below — holds in all 31 of the rest.
• A zero is not a fact.One Andhra village publishes ₹0 as its rate. Printing “₹0” would read as a finding, so nothing is shown.
• Keep private people out of it.Where a complaint’s description explains what happened, it is kept. The complainant’s name is not.

Why this is the stronger claim, not the weaker one

A site that grades every project out of ten would feel more confident than this one. It would also be unfalsifiable: no reader could check the grade, and the moment such a number exists, everything underneath it stops being read. Certainty is the easiest thing in the world to manufacture, which is exactly why it is worth so little.

What Horizon offers instead is checkable. Follow any figure back to the register that published it. See the date it was filed, and by whom. And read a blank for what it is here — not a gap nobody got round to filling, but a place where Horizon looked and would not guess. That is a promise you can test on any page, and it is worth more than a score with nothing behind it.

Horizon will be wrong sometimes — and will say so

On 19 September 2026, Horizon published ready reckoner rates for Maharashtra that were too low in places. The state’s schedule is paginated; the collector read only the first page and, worse, stored the row of page numbers as though it were a rate. A ₹3-per-square-metre row then sat inside the middle rate being published. When the whole schedule was collected, 343 village rates changed, 102 of them by more than a tenth, and one village shown at ₹4 per square metre turned out to be ₹38,610. It was corrected the next day.

That is what an error here looks like, and it is the reason for every rule above. If a figure on this site is wrong, tell us — every project page has Report an inaccuracy — and it gets fixed, with the date it was fixed.

Why the last step is yours

Horizon can tell you what a builder has registered, what it finished late, what the state says the land is worth, and what has been filed against it. It cannot tell you whether to buy. That answer depends on your money, your patience and your alternatives — none of which are in the record. Anyone who hands you a verdict from this data is adding something that was never in it. See why Horizon will never score a builder.

The truth about a project should be one thing

Today it isn’t. There is a version for buyers, a different one for the bank, a quieter one for the lawyer, and a louder one in the brochure — each shaped by whoever is doing the telling. That is not a shortage of information. It is the same project, told as many ways as there are interests in it.

Horizon believes the truth should be one: a single account of a project, the same for everyone who asks, whichever side of the table they sit on. It tries its best to be that one. Not because it cannot be wrong — it can, and this page says where it was — but because a record that reads the same to a buyer, a builder, a lender and a lawyer is the only kind anybody can argue with honestly.

So the aim is to be the most believable account of a project that public record can support — not the final word on it, and never a verdict dressed up as one. Where Horizon falls short of that, it should say so plainly, and it should be fixable. That is the whole promise: the truth as far as the record carries it, honestly marked where it stops.