How to Search RERA Cases and Orders in India

How To · RERA

Updated for 2026 · Claw Editorial

RERA complaints and orders are searched on the RERA portal of the STATE where the project is registered, not on one common national site, because RERA is administered state by state and each authority runs its own portal, search fields, and record format. This guide walks through the four steps: finding the right state authority, searching by complaint number, project, or promoter, reading the order or status, and tracking an appeal at the State RERA Appellate Tribunal.

01Why there is no single RERA search

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 is a central law, but it works through state implementation. Each state and union territory set up its own Real Estate Regulatory Authority, so the number that matters to you as a searcher is not one, it is roughly three dozen.

RERA is state administered

A complaint against a builder in Maharashtra is filed with, and decided by, the Maharashtra authority. A complaint in Uttar Pradesh sits with the Uttar Pradesh authority. Each state runs its own website, names its authority differently, and builds its own search screen. So a search method that works on one state’s portal may not exist at all on another state’s portal.

A national portal now exists, but it is a discovery layer, not the filing front door

Since September 2025, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs runs a unified RERA portal at rera.mohua.gov.in, which lets you search registered projects, promoters, and agents across states in one place, and shows complaint status where the state authority has fed that data in. This is a genuine step toward a single search point. But complaint filing, hearings, and orders are still issued by the state authority, and appeals still go to the state Appellate Tribunal, so for the details of a specific case you still end up back on the state portal.

This guide is about finding RERA complaints, orders, and appeals. If you instead need to search case law or judgments from courts, that is a different job. See our guide on litigation search APIs for NBFCs and banks if you need to check RERA and other matters programmatically at scale, or our guide to tribunal case tracking software in India if you need to track hearings across tribunals generally, not just RERA.

02Step 1: Find the right state RERA authority

Before you can search anything, identify the state where the project is registered, since that decides which authority and which portal you need.

• Start from the project’s location, not the parties’ address. RERA jurisdiction generally follows where the real estate project is situated, so a Mumbai buyer with a Pune project deals with the Maharashtra authority.
• Use the unified national portal to orient yourself. rera.mohua.gov.in lists the states and union territories with an established authority and links out to each one, which is a faster starting point than searching for each state portal separately.
• Expect a different name in every state. Maharashtra’s authority is commonly called MahaRERA, Uttar Pradesh’s is UP RERA, and other states use their own short forms. There is no single naming convention, so search for “[state name] RERA” if you are not sure of the local name, and confirm you are on the official government domain before you enter any details.

03Step 2: Search by complaint number, project, or promoter

Once you are on the correct state portal, most authorities offer the same three broad ways to search, though the exact screen names differ by state.

• By complaint or case number: the fastest route if you already have the reference number issued when the complaint was filed or registered.
• By project name or registration number: useful when you know the property but not the complaint number. Most states register every project with a unique RERA registration number, and searching by that number is usually more reliable than searching by the project’s marketing name, since names can repeat or change.
• By promoter or complainant name: useful when you are researching a builder’s track record rather than one specific matter. This surfaces every complaint linked to that name on the portal, which is a common step before signing with a developer.

Some state portals also let you filter by complaint status, such as pending, disposed, or under hearing. Where that filter exists, it is the quickest way to check whether a matter is still active.

04Step 3: Read the order or check the status

Once you find the matter, the portal should show either a live status (filed, admitted, under hearing, reserved, disposed) or a copy of the order itself.

Read the order for three things: what was decided, whether it is final or interim, and any compensation, refund, interest, or penalty directed. RERA authorities and the Adjudicating Officer attached to them handle related but distinct jobs: the Authority generally deals with complaints about project compliance and registration, while claims for compensation or interest are typically routed to the Adjudicating Officer. Check which body actually passed the order you are reading, since that affects where you go next.

RERA case search is not one search. It is finding the right state authority first, and only then searching within it.

05Step 4: Track an appeal at the State RERA Appellate Tribunal

If either side is unhappy with the Authority’s or the Adjudicating Officer’s order, the Act allows an appeal to the state’s Real Estate Appellate Tribunal. Under Section 44 of the RERA Act, 2016, an appeal must normally be filed within 60 days of receiving the order, though the Tribunal can condone a delay if there was sufficient cause for not filing on time.

Appellate Tribunal orders are often published separately from the Authority’s own case list, sometimes on a distinct section of the same state portal and sometimes on the Tribunal’s own site. So if you cannot find an appeal outcome on the main RERA search page, look specifically for the state’s Real Estate Appellate Tribunal section or website before concluding the appeal was not decided.

06Where Claw fits

Claw is an all-in-one legaltech platform for Indian advocates, law firms, and corporate legal teams, combining AI-based case search, an AI legal assistant (Legal GPT), case management, and compliance automation across all Indian courts and tribunals.

For RERA specifically, the honest position is this: RERA search stays fundamentally state by state, and no single tool, including Claw, replaces checking the correct state authority for a live, authoritative order. Where a tool like Claw helps is on the tracking side once a matter is identified. Claw’s case tracking spans thousands of courts and tribunals across India, with auto case updates, cause lists, and alerts, and that coverage includes some RERA benches. Exactly which RERA authorities and benches are covered is a coverage question, not a search-method question, so see our consumer and RERA coverage page for the current state list rather than assuming coverage here.

07Sources and further reading

Primary sources for this guide:

• Unified RERA Portal (Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs): rera.mohua.gov.in
• Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (official text, India Code): indiacode.nic.in
• Claw: clawlaw.in

For the state-wise names and links of each RERA authority, start from the unified portal above rather than a third-party list, since authority names and portal addresses do change.

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