How to Verify a Karnataka RERA Registration Yourself
Checking a Karnataka project's RERA position means going to the authority's own portal at rera.karnataka.gov.in, opening the registered-projects search under the Services menu, and searching on the registration number where you have one or on the project and promoter name where you do not. What comes back for a registered project is a listing with its registration number, the promoter's details, the declared areas, the sanctioned-plan and approval disclosures, a completion date and the promoter's quarterly progress filings. What comes back for an unregistered project is nothing — and nothing is the answer, not a fault in the portal. This page takes the search step by step, explains what the number encodes and what the promoter had to file to obtain it, and sets out what may and may not be concluded when nothing comes back. Any Karnataka project can be checked this way. Where this project stands is at the end.
A registration number printed on a brochure, a hoarding or a listing site is a claim, and the portal is the only place a claim like that can be tested — which is the whole reason to run the check yourself, once. Numbers get mistyped. They expire. They get borrowed from a different phase of the same development, or made up outright. Typing one in yourself takes about a minute and settles the question.
Run the Search on the Portal, Not on a Link You Were Sent
Type rera.karnataka.gov.in into the address bar yourself instead of following a link handed to you by whoever is selling. Nothing gates the site: no login, no registration and no fee is needed to look up a project. The project search lives under the Services menu in the main navigation, which also carries separate menus for Registration, Complaints, Unregistered Projects and the appellate tribunal, K-REAT. Labels appear in both Kannada and English; the interface is bilingual.
- Search on the number first, if you have one. Paste the full registration string exactly as printed. Partial strings frequently return nothing even for a project that is properly registered, so a failed partial search proves nothing on its own.
- If you have no number, search on the promoter. Promoter or builder name is the more reliable of the two text searches, because a project is very often registered under a working or legal name that differs from the name it is marketed under. Searching only the marketing name is the single commonest way to miss a registration that does exist.
- Then search on the project name, and on a shortened form of it. Try the distinctive word on its own rather than the full marketing phrase.
- Narrow by district if the list is long. Bengaluru Urban returns a great many projects; the district filter is the practical way through it.
- Open the listing itself. The search result is a summary. What matters is the detail view and the documents attached to it.
The description above is deliberately qualitative. Screens on the portal are revised from time to time, and a step-by-step click path written today may not match the one in front of you. Four things do hold: the address, the absence of any fee, the fact that promoter name is the most forgiving field to search on, and the fact that anyone at all can retrieve a genuine registration from the portal.
What a Karnataka Registration Number Encodes
Slash-separated is what a Karnataka registration number looks like. Read from left to right, its parts do this work:
- The opening segment identifies the issuing regime — the Karnataka authority acting under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016. Every Karnataka registration shares it, so it tells you the state and nothing more.
- Internal office codes follow, tying the file to the jurisdiction that processed it.
- A short type code distinguishes a project registration from an agent registration. This is worth noticing: an agent's number is not a project's number, and an agent number quoted as though it registered the project is a substitution you should catch.
- A date component records when the registration was issued.
- A serial number closes the string and belongs to that project or phase alone.
Two cautions follow. The structure is a reading aid and not a checksum — a string that looks plausible is still not a registration, and the only thing that makes a number real is the portal returning the project when you type it in. And what gets registered is a phase, not a development: a large project may hold several registrations, one for each registered phase, so a number entirely valid for Phase 1 tells you nothing about the phase being sold to you. Confirm that the villa, plot or apartment under discussion falls inside the phase the number covers.
What the Promoter Had to File to Obtain It
Nobody is granted registration on request; it is not a formality. Section 4 of the Act specifies the set of documents a promoter files, and the list repays knowing, because every item on it is a question you can put before registration exists:
- Authenticated copies of the approvals and the commencement certificate for the project, and the sanctioned plan, layout plan and specifications, from the authority competent to sanction them.
- The plan of development works, and the proposed facilities to be provided.
- The proforma of the allotment letter, the agreement for sale and the conveyance deed the promoter intends to use.
- The number, type and carpet area of the units, and the area of the plots.
- Details of the land title, including legal title with supporting documents, and where the promoter is not the owner, the consent of the owner.
- A declaration on affidavit — Form B under the Karnataka Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2017 — which includes the promoter's undertaking on the time period for completion and on the separate bank account.
- The separate-account undertaking itself: seventy per cent of the amounts realised from allottees is to be deposited in a separate scheduled-bank account, to be drawn only in proportion to construction and land cost, and certified by an engineer, an architect and a chartered accountant before each withdrawal.
Granted registration turns all of that from something promised into something discoverable. The shift — from what a salesperson tells you to what a public file records — is where the practical value of the registration lies.
What the Quarterly Updates Contain
Registration is not where the Act stops. Section 11 requires the promoter to maintain the project's page on the authority's website and refresh it quarterly, the obligation that turns the portal from a certificate into a running record. A quarterly filing is expected to carry:
- The list of units or plots booked in the quarter, and the inventory still unsold.
- Physical progress against the registered scope — ordinarily building-wise and floor-wise, with a stated percentage of completion.
- Progress on the common infrastructure: internal roads, water supply, drainage, electrical works and landscaping.
- The status of approvals still to be received, and any that have lapsed.
- Current photographs of the work, which is the part that is hardest to dress up.
- Any revision to the completion date, and the reason for it.
For a buyer, two consequences. The filing history is the most honest comparison available between projects — four consecutive quarters read in sequence tell you more than any brochure will. And a promoter who stops filing has told you something too: the authority publishes defaulters and levies penalties for non-filing, so a gap in the record deserves a direct question.
What It Means When the Search Returns Nothing
Most guides skip this case, and in Bangalore — where a great deal of what is marketed is pre-launch — it is the one that matters most. If a thorough search returns nothing, the project is not registered. Not "registered but slow to appear". Not "approval in progress". Not "the portal is behind". Either a registration exists on the portal or it does not exist at all.
Draw that conclusion only after searching properly: the promoter name as well as the project name, a shortened form of the project name, and the district. If none of them returns the project, treat it as unregistered.
The legal position is clear enough. Until the registration is obtained, section 3 of the Act bars a promoter from advertising, marketing, booking, selling or offering for sale any unit in a project that requires registration. Only genuinely small projects fall outside that requirement — broadly, where the land does not exceed 500 square metres or where there are not more than eight units counting every phase. A penalty attaches to marketing an unregistered project, and the portal provides both a route for reporting unregistered projects and a complaints mechanism.
What it means in practice, for you:
- Nothing you have been quoted is enforceable. Areas, rates, charges, layouts, facilities and dates are all subject to change, and none of them binds anybody.
- There is no protected account. The seventy-per-cent rule attaches to a registered project. Money paid before registration has no such ring-fence around it.
- Any completion date you are given is a date without teeth. A promoter may well have stated one; it only becomes enforceable, with interest payable on delay, once it is recorded in the registration.
- There is no filing to check. Nothing is being reported quarterly, so there is nothing to hold anyone to.
- It does not, by itself, mean the project is bad. Every registered project was unregistered once. It means the project is at a stage where the protections do not yet apply, and it should be treated accordingly — look, ask, keep everything in writing, and do not part with a booking amount.
Check the Agent as Well as the Project
A real-estate agent needs its own registration under section 9 of the Act before it can facilitate the sale of a unit in a registered project, and the portal carries a separate lookup for agents. Form two habits. Ask whoever is selling to you for their agent registration number, then look it up. And hold the two numbers apart in your mind — an agent's registration establishes that the agent is registered, and nothing whatsoever about the project.
Reading a Listing You Do Find
When a listing does come back, these are the fields to read rather than skim:
| What to read | Why it matters |
| Registered project name and the phase it covers | Confirms the number belongs to the phase you are being sold, not a neighbouring one. |
| Promoter name and promoter registration details | Confirms you are dealing with the entity that will sign your agreement. |
| Declared areas — unit areas and plot areas | These become the areas in the Agreement to Sale, and the basis for comparing one project with another. |
| Sanctioned plan and the sanctioning authority | Tells you what has actually been approved, as against what is drawn in a brochure. |
| Declared completion date | The one date with legal consequence attached to it. |
| Separate-account details | The account your payments are meant to go into. |
| Quarterly progress filings | The running record, and the best test of whether the project is moving. |
| Litigation and encumbrance disclosures | A prompt for your advocate, not a substitute for a title search. |
Before you sign, cross-check the number on the Agreement to Sale against the portal, and keep the listing — printed or saved — with your file. A registration can be read again later. A conversation cannot.
Where Nambiar's Beverly Green Stands
Applied to this project, all of the above gives a short answer. Nambiar's Beverly Green is not registered with K-RERA. An application has been made, the developer has confirmed as much, and approval is expected by 20 August 2026, which puts the status at Applied — registration in process, number pending. Nothing has been allotted, and the project is not approved and not registered: an application is a step and not an outcome, and only a portal listing evidences approval. Search the portal on the project name and on the promoter name Nambiar Builders and you should get nothing back, which is precisely the position described above.
Everything numeric on this website — the 76-acre master plan, the 36-acre Phase 1 with its 298 villa plots, the villa areas, the indicative rate — is therefore a pre-registration figure of the developer's, and what we expect a filing to carry. The dates work the same way: a launch stated for 20 August 2026, a completion stated for 31 December 2030 and a possession date stated as 15 January 2031 are stated dates rather than commitments, because until the registration is published no authority has certified any of them and none is enforceable. The sequence itself, though, is in the right order. Expressions of interest are being taken now, from ₹5 lakh, and are fully refundable if you choose not to proceed at any point before you sign a formal agreement; pre-launch is 10 August 2026; K-RERA approval is expected by 20 August 2026; and the launch comes on 20 August 2026, only once that registration is in place. Refusing to sell before it is registered is what section 3 requires, and it is what much of the pre-launch market on this corridor does not do. Until then no booking should be made. Register an expression of interest if the project suits you, and when the registration arrives, treat it as the document that supersedes every page on this site. The Nambiar's Beverly Green RERA page summarises the current position, and the construction status page the project stage.
Where This Page's Statements Come From
- The portal itself — rera.karnataka.gov.in — for the site's public navigation, including the Services, Registration, Complaints, Unregistered Projects and K-REAT menus, and the free project listing at rera.karnataka.gov.in/viewAllProjects.
- The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 for the registration requirement and its threshold (section 3), the documents filed on application and the seventy-per-cent separate account (section 4), agent registration (section 9), quarterly updating of the project page (section 11), the five-year structural defect liability (section 14) and the buyer's remedy on delay (section 18).
- The Karnataka Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2017 for the Form B declaration filed with the registration application.
- The search behaviour described — searching by registration number, promoter name or project name, and the advice to paste the full number rather than a fragment — is drawn from published buyer guides to the Karnataka portal and matches the portal's own project listing. It is described qualitatively because the portal's screens change; we have not reproduced a click path we cannot guarantee.
- The contents of a quarterly progress filing are described from the section 11 obligation and from published accounts of what promoters upload. The exact fields are set by the authority and can change; read the filings themselves rather than this summary.
Frequently Asked Questions about Verifying a Karnataka RERA Registration
1. Do I need to log in or pay to search the K-RERA portal?
No. Anyone can run project and agent lookups on rera.karnataka.gov.in without an account and without paying. The logins on the portal exist for promoters and agents filing with the authority, not for buyers reading what they filed.
2. I searched the project name and got nothing. Could the project still be registered?
It could be, since the registered name often differs from the marketing name. Run the promoter name as well, then a shortened project name, then the district. If none of those brings it back, the project is not registered.
3. Someone gave me a registration number but the portal returns no result. What now?
Check first that you pasted the whole string, separators and all, because partial numbers fail as a matter of routine. Check next whether what you have is an agent registration rather than a project registration. If a complete, correctly typed project number still returns nothing, do not proceed on it — ask for the registration certificate itself.
4. Does a registration number for one phase cover the whole development?
No. It is granted phase by phase, so a large development may carry several numbers, and one that is entirely valid for a given phase says nothing about any other. Confirm that the unit being sold to you falls inside the phase the number covers.
5. Is an unregistered project automatically a bad project?
No, and precision matters here. Every registered project was unregistered at some point. Unregistered means the statutory protections have not attached yet: no enforceable date, no protected account, no certified areas, no quarterly filings. That is a reason to wait and to keep everything in writing; it is not automatically a reason to walk away.
6. How often should I re-check a project I am tracking?
Quarterly is a sensible rhythm, matching the cadence at which a registered promoter has to update the project page. Where the project is unregistered, a quarterly check is also about as often as a new registration is likely to have appeared.
7. What does the K-RERA registration protect once it is granted?
Several things at once. The registered areas become the areas in your Agreement to Sale. Seventy per cent of what you pay goes into a separate account that can be drawn only against construction. The completion date becomes enforceable, with interest payable on delay. Structural defects remain the promoter's liability for five years from handover. And disputes go to the Karnataka authority and its appellate tribunal instead of only to the civil courts.




