How RERA filings and builder disputes work for a buyer.
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On East Bengaluru RERA project delays, the register is mixed. Of 2,342 approved housing and plotted projects in the Bengaluru East, Anekal and Hosakote taluks, 68.1% still carry the completion date they registered with. Where a date moved, the median shift was 9 months. But an unchanged date doesn't prove delivery: the register doesn't show occupancy certificates.
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For a RERA Karnataka project search, open rera.karnataka.gov.in, go to Services, then Project Status, and paste the full registration number. Then check four things: the promoter and phase match your papers, the completion dates and extensions, the quarterly updates, and any complaints or orders. It's free, and it takes about ten minutes.
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The delayed possession compensation RERA Karnataka buyers can claim comes from Section 18. You can withdraw and get your money back with interest and compensation, or stay and get interest for every month of delay until possession. Karnataka's rate is SBI's highest MCLR plus 2%, which is 10.95% a year on SBI's 15 Oct 2026 rates.
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New RERA projects in Bengaluru are concentrated in three taluks. From 2020 to 15 Oct 2026, Karnataka RERA approved 2,692 residential, plotted and mixed projects across seven Bengaluru taluks. Bengaluru East (643), Anekal (603) and Bengaluru South (556) made up two-thirds. January–September 2026 approvals were 20% below the same months of 2025.
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Bengaluru flood exposure is highest where new supply is moving. About 38% of projects K-RERA approved from 2020 to mid-October 2026 (1,031 of 2,692) sit in Anekal, Devanahalli and Hosakote taluks, where an IISc-led study rated roughly 40% to over 50% of land as high or very high flood hazard. The city's flood-point list doesn't cover those taluks at all.
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Consumer court or RERA for builder delay? For a registered project, K-RERA is usually the simpler route to delay interest or a refund. A consumer commission suits wider compensation claims or unregistered projects. Civil courts can't hear matters RERA can decide, so they're mainly for title and third-party disputes. Pick one forum per claim.
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Use three letters, in order. First, ask the builder in writing for the sanctioned plans, specifications and stage-wise schedule, which sections 11(3) and 19 of the RERA Act entitle you to. Second, report defects within five years of possession under section 14(3), which gives the builder 30 days to fix them free. Third, if that fails, complain to Karnataka RERA in Form N with a ₹1,000 fee.
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