HORIZON

What the whole record shows

Every other page on Horizon answers a question about one project, one builder or one place. These answer questions that need all of them at once — counted from the records, with the method and the limits on the page.

The study

What India's states actually disclose about a real-estate project

Every state runs a RERA register. They do not publish the same things — and the gap between the fullest and the thinnest is most of the record.

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1,29,036project records counted

More studiescomputed daily · never dated, because nothing here is news

9,560registrations no longer live

How many RERA registrations are no longer live

A registration can lapse, be surrendered, be de-registered or be revoked. The registers record which — and the totals are not small.

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4,395records carry a revised completion date

How often a promised possession date gets moved

Some states publish both the original promised completion date and its revision. Where they do, the distance between the two is on the record.

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66.9%are apartment or building projects

Flats, plots or shops — what India actually registers

The mix between apartment projects, plotted layouts and commercial development varies sharply by state, and the register records which is which.

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18,178registrations dated 2017

The year India's real-estate register began, and every year since

RERA took effect in 2017 and the registers filled in a rush. The annual count since is a record of that rush, the year it stopped, and what came after.

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58,897promoters hold exactly one project

Who actually builds India — the long tail behind the register

The names in the headlines register a few hundred projects between them. Most of the register belongs to firms with exactly one.

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43.6%of the register sits in ten districts

How concentrated India's registered building actually is

There are hundreds of districts on the register. A handful of them hold most of it.

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89,559complaints on file

The complaints on file — and the registers that publish none

A few state registers publish the complaints filed against each project. Most publish nothing at all, and the difference is invisible on any one project page.

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Noteswritten, dated, and about how to read the record

  1. Reading the record··3 min

    How to read a RERA filing without being misled

    Every field on a registration means something narrower than it looks. Here is what each one actually claims — and what an empty one does not.

  2. Reading the record··2 min

    What it means when a RERA registration has lapsed

    Lapsed, surrendered, de-registered, revoked and in abeyance are five different events. Only one of them is usually bad news, and none of them means what a listing site implies.

  3. How Horizon works··2 min

    Why Horizon will never score a builder

    We hold enough data to publish a rating tomorrow. Not doing it is the product, not a gap in it.

Every figure is a count of what was filed. Horizon does not rank, score or draw conclusions from these numbers — see what Horizon means by true for how that is decided, or why there is no Horizon score. Figures are free to quote with a link to the study they came from.