RERA registration in Hyderabad is the mandatory registration of eligible real estate projects and real estate agents with the Telangana State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TSRERA) before a project is advertised, marketed, booked or sold, or before an agent facilitates any such transaction. The threshold is the nationwide test — land exceeding 500 square metres or more than 8 apartments — and every application is filed online through the TSRERA portal, with the Authority’s office at the DTCP Building, A.C. Guards, Masab Tank, Hyderabad. Telangana’s RERA Rules were notified in 2017, but the Authority only became a permanent body in June 2023, and the building-permission approvals that feed into a registration file now run through BuildNow — the platform that replaced the state’s earlier TS-bPASS system at the end of 2025 and is directly integrated with TSRERA’s own data.
1. Why RERA Registration Matters for Hyderabad’s Real Estate Market
This guide is maintained by Marcken Consulting LLP, a chartered accountancy and IBBI-registered valuation practice, and was last reviewed on 30 July 2026 against the TSRERA portal, the Telangana State Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2017 and the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 itself.
Hyderabad’s real estate growth over the past decade has concentrated along a handful of well-known corridors: HITEC City and Madhapur, where the city’s IT boom first took root; Gachibowli and the Financial District around Nanakramguda, now the address of choice for Global Capability Centres and large IT campuses; Kokapet and Neopolis, the newer high-rise residential and commercial corridor immediately west of the Financial District; and Kompally, Tellapur and the wider Outer Ring Road growth ring, alongside the Shamshabad airport corridor to the south. Most of this development sits within the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) or, further out, the much larger planning area of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). Against that pace of expansion, RERA registration is the one check a buyer, lender or channel partner can run independently of anything a promoter’s brochure claims — it confirms that a project’s title, approvals, timeline and financial disclosures have actually been filed with a regulator, not merely represented in marketing material.
Telangana’s own path to a fully functioning RERA regime is worth understanding before relying on any registration. The state notified the Telangana State Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2017 on 31 July 2017 (G.O.Ms.No.202), close to the Act’s own commencement nationally. The Authority itself took considerably longer to become a permanent body: interim arrangements ran for several years before a permanent Authority was constituted only vide G.O.Ms.No. 84 and 85 dated 12 June 2023, with Dr. N. Satyanarayana, IAS appointed as Chairperson alongside two Members. A dedicated Real Estate Appellate Tribunal followed only in 2024 — until then, the Telangana State Value Added Tax Appellate Tribunal had been designated under G.O.Ms.No.8 dated 11 January 2018 to hear RERA appeals on an interim basis. There was no parallel state law struck down here, unlike in some other states — the relevant point for anyone relying on a Telangana RERA registration today is simply how recently the full enforcement machinery, a permanent Authority and a dedicated Tribunal, has actually been in place.
2. The TSRERA Office in Hyderabad: Registrar Address, Contact Details and Functions
2.1 The Authority and Its Registrar Office
TSRERA is the state-level regulatory authority established under Section 20(1) of the Act, functioning from its head office in Hyderabad. On its own portal, the Authority also brands itself as TG-RERA, reflecting Telangana’s broader shift toward “TG” as the state’s official short form — the two names refer to the same body, though “TSRERA” remains the far more widely recognised name and is used throughout this guide for that reason. Project registration, agent registration, renewals and most complaint filings are handled online through the TSRERA portal, with the Authority’s secretariat at its Hyderabad office processing and deciding applications.
2.2 TSRERA Office Address and Contact Details
| Body | Address | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Telangana State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TSRERA) | DTCP Building, Ground Floor, #640, A.C. Guards, Masab Tank, Opposite PTI Building, Hyderabad – 500004 | Phone: 040-29394973 / 040-29394974 WhatsApp: 90000 06301 Email: rera-maud@telangana.gov.in Portal: rera.telangana.gov.in |
| Telangana Real Estate Appellate Tribunal | Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute (Dr. MCRHRD), Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad | Appeals are filed under Section 44(1); Tribunal notices and cause lists are published through the TSRERA portal |
TSRERA’s office hours, as published on its own portal, run Monday to Saturday, 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM. These details are as published by the Authority itself; cause lists, hearing schedules and any counter arrangements are notified on the portal, so re-confirming there before a visit is sensible.
2.3 The Telangana Real Estate Appellate Tribunal
Appeals against orders of the Authority or of an Adjudicating Officer lie with the Telangana Real Estate Appellate Tribunal. Telangana designated the state’s Value Added Tax Appellate Tribunal to double as the interim RERA Appellate Tribunal under G.O.Ms.No.8 dated 11 January 2018, sitting at the Dr. MCRHRD institute in Jubilee Hills. A dedicated, standalone Tribunal followed only in 2024, roughly seven years after the Act itself came into force, with a retired High Court judge as its first Chairperson. The Tribunal’s composition has changed more than once since, moving between a retired judge, an interim administrative appointee and, most recently reported, another retired High Court judge — so rather than name a specific current Chairperson here, this guide points readers to the Tribunal notices published on the TSRERA portal for the position as it stands when you check. The mechanics of filing an appeal, including the fee and the promoter pre-deposit rule, are covered in Section 10 below.
2.4 What the TSRERA Office Handles
Beyond receiving and deciding project and agent registration applications and renewals, the Authority’s Hyderabad office administers the quarterly project status updates that registered promoters must file, issues show-cause notices and orders against unregistered marketing and other defaults, hears complaints filed under Section 31, and maintains the public database of registered projects, registered agents and defaulting promoters that anyone can search on the portal.
3. RERA Applicability: Who Must Register
3.1 The 500 Square Metre / 8-Apartment Threshold
Under Section 3(2)(a) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, registration of a real estate project is not required where the land proposed for development does not exceed 500 square metres, or where the number of apartments proposed does not exceed 8, inclusive of all phases of the project. This is a national threshold and applies in Telangana exactly as it does everywhere else. The Telangana Rules apply to projects whose building permissions were approved on or after 1 January 2017 by the competent authority, whether that is GHMC, HMDA, the Directorate of Town and Country Planning (DTCP), a municipal corporation, municipality, Nagar Panchayat or the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation, depending on where the project sits.
Where a project is developed in phases, each phase is treated as a standalone real estate project requiring its own registration. Projects that already held a completion certificate before the Rules took effect, and projects undertaken purely for renovation, repair or redevelopment without marketing, advertising, selling or new allotment, fall outside the requirement.
3.2 Real Estate Agents: Registration Under Section 9
Section 9 of the Act separately requires every real estate agent to register with TSRERA before facilitating the sale or purchase of any plot, apartment or building forming part of a registered project. This applies equally to individual brokers, partnership firms and companies operating as channel partners. Registration is agent-specific rather than project-specific — once granted, it allows the agent to act across any registered project, not only the one named in the original application.
3.3 Projects That Are Exempt
Beyond the size threshold, exemptions generally cover completed projects holding a valid completion certificate as on the date the Rules took effect, and work limited to repair, renovation or redevelopment without fresh sale or allotment. There is no blanket carve-out for government bodies, housing boards or cooperative societies — a project crosses into the registration requirement the same way regardless of who the promoter is, once the size threshold is crossed.
4. Project Registration: Process and Documents
4.1 Application Process
A promoter applies for project registration in Form A under Rule 3 of the Telangana Rules, together with the information Section 4 of the Act requires — the promoter’s PAN, three years of audited financial statements, encumbrance and title details, parking details, and the consent and agreement documents where the promoter is not the landowner. The Rules originally contemplated this being filed in triplicate hard copy until the process was made web-based; in practice, applications are now filed online through the TSRERA portal.
4.2 Documents and Building-Permission Due Diligence
Beyond the core documents the Act itself requires, a Hyderabad-specific step sits ahead of RERA registration rather than inside it: the project’s building and layout permission. Telangana’s building-approval system has gone through two full generations of digital reform inside the last five years. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation first introduced TS-bPASS (later re-branded TG-bPASS) in 2020-21 as a self-certification, single-window system for building and layout approvals. That system has itself since been replaced: BuildNow, launched by the state government in March 2025 and progressively extended to the full HMDA region and DTCP jurisdiction over the following months, became the sole platform for new applications once the TG-bPASS portal was permanently closed to fresh filings from 15 December 2025. BuildNow covers building and layout approvals across GHMC, HMDA and DTCP limits, and the government has stated it is directly integrated with TSRERA’s own systems, so a project’s building-permission data and its RERA registration are no longer entirely separate paper trails. A promoter assembling a Hyderabad project’s registration file should confirm the building or layout permission was actually granted through BuildNow — or, for an older project, was validly issued under the predecessor TG-bPASS or DPMS systems — before treating the registration application as complete.
4.3 Timeline: The 30-Day Rule
Under Section 5 of the Act and Rule 5 of the Telangana Rules, the Authority must grant or reject a registration application within 30 days of receipt; if it does neither within that window, the project is treated as registered by default. Once granted, the registration certificate and registration number are issued in Form C. This 30-day, deemed-registration framework is the actual statutory answer to “how long does RERA registration take in Hyderabad” — there is no separate, shorter administrative timeline published by TSRERA beyond this statutory window.
4.4 Extension of Registration
Where a project cannot be completed within its declared timeline, the promoter may apply for an extension of registration in Form E, within 3 months prior to the expiry of the existing registration, under Rule 6 of the Telangana Rules. The extension fee is half the original registration fee prescribed under Rule 3(3), unless the promoter is applying due to force majeure, in which case no fee is payable. TSRERA communicates a grant of extension in Form F and a rejection in Form D, after giving the promoter an opportunity to be heard; an extension cannot be granted beyond what local law allows for completion of the project or phase.
5. Real Estate Agent Registration in Telangana
5.1 Application Process
An individual or entity seeking to operate as a registered real estate agent applies to TSRERA in Form G under Rule 8 of the Telangana Rules and Section 9(2) of the Act, providing enterprise and identity details, PAN, address proof and photographs of the individual or of the partners and directors, as applicable. The registration fee under Rule 8(2) is Rs 10,000 for an individual applicant and Rs 50,000 for an applicant other than an individual, such as a firm, LLP or company.
5.2 Validity and Renewal
Agent registration is granted for 5 years under Rule 9(4). Renewal is applied for in Form J, and must be filed at least 3 months before the existing registration expires under Rule 10(1) — not 30 days, a distinction worth flagging since some general guides understate the lead time needed. The renewal fee under Rule 10(2) is Rs 5,000 for an individual and Rs 25,000 for an applicant other than an individual, and the renewed registration is again valid for 5 years. TSRERA can revoke an agent’s registration for the reasons specified under Section 9(7) of the Act, and appeals against TSRERA orders follow the complaint and appeal route described in Section 10 below.
6. TSRERA Registration Fees
| Item | Fee | Provision (Telangana Rules, 2017) |
|---|---|---|
| Group housing project — land not exceeding 1,000 sq m | Rs 5 per sq m | Rule 3(3)(a) |
| Group housing project — land exceeding 1,000 sq m | Rs 10 per sq m, capped at Rs 5 lakh | Rule 3(3)(a) |
| Mixed development (residential and commercial) — not exceeding 1,000 sq m | Rs 10 per sq m | Rule 3(3)(b) |
| Mixed development — exceeding 1,000 sq m | Rs 15 per sq m, capped at Rs 7 lakh | Rule 3(3)(b) |
| Commercial project — not exceeding 1,000 sq m | Rs 20 per sq m | Rule 3(3)(c) |
| Commercial project — exceeding 1,000 sq m | Rs 25 per sq m, capped at Rs 10 lakh | Rule 3(3)(c) |
| Plotted development | Rs 5 per sq m, capped at Rs 2 lakh | Rule 3(3)(d) |
| Extension of project registration | Half the original registration fee (nil for force majeure) | Rule 6(b) |
| Real estate agent registration — individual | Rs 10,000 | Rule 8(2) |
| Real estate agent registration — other than individual | Rs 50,000 | Rule 8(2) |
| Renewal of agent registration — individual | Rs 5,000 | Rule 10(2) |
| Renewal of agent registration — other than individual | Rs 25,000 | Rule 10(2) |
| Complaint to the Authority (Form M) | Rs 1,000 | Rule 34(1) |
| Complaint to the Adjudicating Officer (Form N) | Rs 1,000 | Rule 35(1) |
| Appeal to the Appellate Tribunal (Form L) | Rs 5,000 | Rule 25(1) |
Two features of the Telangana schedule are worth flagging against what generic multi-state guides sometimes assume. The agent registration fee of Rs 10,000 / Rs 50,000 matches the figure often quoted as a national standard — it happens to be accurate for Telangana, but it is materially lower than states such as West Bengal, where the equivalent figures are Rs 25,000 and Rs 2,50,000, so it should never be assumed to hold everywhere. And unlike some neighbouring states, Telangana’s project registration fee combines a per-square-metre rate with a monetary cap on the total fee for each project category, rather than an uncapped per-square-metre schedule.
All figures above are prescribed under the Telangana State Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2017 and confirmed against the Authority’s own portal FAQ; fee notifications are revised from time to time, so the current schedule on the TSRERA portal is worth a final check before filing.
7. The Escrow Account and Buyer Protections
7.1 The Separate Account Requirement
Section 4(2)(l)(D) of the Act requires a promoter to deposit 70% of the amounts realised from allottees for a project into a separate bank account, to be used only for the construction and land costs of that project. This is a national provision and applies in Telangana exactly as it does everywhere else — it is the mechanism intended to stop funds collected for one project being diverted to another.
7.2 Withdrawal Certification: Where a CA’s Role Comes In
Withdrawals from the separate account are not unrestricted; they need to be proportionate to construction progress and supported by certification from an engineer, an architect and a chartered accountant in practice. This is one of the more direct points of contact between RERA compliance and a Chartered Accountant’s practice — certifying that withdrawals match progress is routine CA work on a registered project, distinct from the promoter’s own statutory audit.
7.3 Interest on Delayed Possession and Refund Timelines
Where a promoter is liable to pay interest to an allottee under the Act — for a false or incorrect disclosure under Section 12, a structural defect under Section 14(3), failure to complete or hand over possession under Section 18, or a compensation claim under Section 19 — Rule 15 of the Telangana Rules prescribes the applicable rate as the highest Marginal Cost of Lending Rate (MCLR) of the State Bank of India plus 2%, payable by the promoter to the allottee or by the allottee to the promoter, as the case requires; the same rate applies both ways.
Separately, Rule 16 of the Telangana Rules requires any refund payable by the promoter, together with applicable interest and compensation, to be paid within 90 days of the date it becomes due — a longer window than the 45-day timeline some other states prescribe, which is worth factoring into cash-flow planning on a project facing a refund obligation.
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8. Verifying a Registration on the TSRERA Portal
Before booking a unit, engaging an agent, or relying on a promoter’s representations, the TSRERA portal lets anyone search registered projects by name, promoter or registration number, and registered agents by name or registration number. A project listing shows its registration number, promoter details, sanctioned layout, declared timeline and the disclosures filed since registration; an agent listing confirms whether a registration is current, lapsed or revoked. Given how recently Telangana’s building-permission data has begun flowing into TSRERA through BuildNow, cross-checking a project’s registration number directly on the portal — rather than relying on a certificate shown in a sales office — remains the more reliable way to confirm current status.
9. Penalties for Non-Compliance
9.1 Penalties for Promoters
Marketing, booking or selling units in a project that should be registered but isn’t exposes a promoter to a penalty of up to 10% of the estimated project cost under Section 59, and continued non-compliance with the Authority’s subsequent order can escalate to imprisonment of up to 3 years, a further fine, or both. Providing false information at the application stage, or contravening Section 4 — which includes the escrow requirement above — carries a separate penalty of up to 5% of project cost under Section 60, and general contraventions of the Act, rules or regulations fall under Section 61 on similar terms. Where a promoter specifically fails to comply with an order of the Telangana Real Estate Appellate Tribunal, Section 64 provides for imprisonment of up to 3 years, a fine, or both.
9.2 Penalties for Real Estate Agents
Facilitating a sale or purchase without the registration Section 9 requires is penalised under Section 62 at up to Rs 10,000 per day, capped by reference to 5% of the property cost involved. Failure to comply with an Authority order attracts a further daily penalty under Section 65. Failure to comply specifically with a Tribunal order is the agent-side equivalent of Section 64 for promoters, but the maximum term under Section 66 is imprisonment of up to 1 year, not 3, alongside a fine.
9.3 Compounding of Offences
Section 70 of the Act allows certain offences to be compounded on payment of a prescribed sum, in place of prosecution, at the court’s discretion. Rule 33 of the Telangana Rules fixes the compounding amounts: 10% of the estimated cost of the real estate project for imprisonment under Section 59(2) or Section 64, and 10% of the estimated cost of the plot, apartment or building concerned for imprisonment under Section 66 or Section 68.
10. Filing a Complaint and Appeals
Any aggrieved person may file a complaint with TSRERA under Section 31, in Form M under Rule 34 of the Telangana Rules. The fee is Rs 1,000, payable by demand draft, bankers cheque or online payment, and the complaint is heard through the Authority’s own summary inquiry procedure.
Where the relief sought is interest or compensation — for a false or incorrect disclosure under Section 12, a structural defect under Section 14(3), failure to complete or hand over possession under Section 18, or a claim under Section 19 — the claim is decided by an Adjudicating Officer under Section 71, on a complaint filed in Form N with the same Rs 1,000 fee under Rule 35. This is the compensation track that runs alongside the Authority’s own powers to direct registration, impose penalties and issue compliance orders.
Appeals from an order of the Authority or the Adjudicating Officer lie to the Telangana Real Estate Appellate Tribunal within 60 days under Section 44, filed in Form L with a fee of Rs 5,000 under Rule 25 of the Telangana Rules. A promoter appealing a penalty must first deposit at least 30% of that penalty — or the full amount payable to an allottee, including interest and compensation, where that is what the order requires — under Section 43(5) before the appeal is heard. A further appeal from a Tribunal order lies to the High Court for the State of Telangana within 60 days under Section 58.
11. RERA Compliance Across Hyderabad’s Growth Corridors
Building-permission jurisdiction, more than the RERA process itself, is where Hyderabad’s practical compliance picture differs by location. Three authorities cover the city and its outskirts between them: GHMC within the municipal corporation’s own limits; HMDA across a much larger planning area extending well beyond the city, taking in most of the growth corridors along the Outer Ring Road; and DTCP for areas outside both. All three now process building and layout approvals through the same BuildNow platform, but the sanctioning authority named on a project’s approvals — and therefore the authority a title check needs to trace — still depends on where the site sits.
- HITEC City and Madhapur — where Hyderabad’s IT sector first concentrated, and now a dense mix of established commercial towers and residential redevelopment, within GHMC limits.
- Gachibowli and the Financial District (Nanakramguda) — the city’s primary corridor for Global Capability Centres and large IT campuses, spanning GHMC and HMDA jurisdiction.
- Kokapet and Neopolis — a newer high-rise residential and commercial corridor immediately west of the Financial District, developed substantially on HMDA-auctioned land.
- Kompally, Tellapur and the wider Outer Ring Road belt — lower-density residential growth corridors within HMDA’s planning area, drawing both end-user and investor demand as the Outer Ring Road has opened up land along its length.
- Shamshabad and the airport corridor — growth driven by proximity to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, spanning both GHMC and HMDA areas depending on the specific site.
Across all of these, the consistent Hyderabad-specific check is the same regardless of corridor: confirming which authority actually sanctioned the building or layout plan, whether that approval was obtained through BuildNow — or validly carried over from TG-bPASS or the older DPMS system for an existing project — and only then treating the RERA registration itself as the final, not the only, check to run.
12. Common Compliance Mistakes to Avoid
- Marketing before registration. Advertising, listing, or accepting even a token booking amount before the registration number is granted is itself the Section 59 default — not a preparatory step that becomes compliant once registration follows.
- Treating the building permission and the RERA registration as unrelated filings. With BuildNow now integrated with TSRERA, a project’s building-permission status is no longer a separate paper trail from its RERA file — gaps between the two are more visible than they once were.
- Understating the agent renewal timeline. Renewal has to be filed at least 3 months before expiry, not 30 days — leaving it late risks a lapse in an otherwise straightforward renewal.
- Treating agent registration as project-linked. An agent’s registration is personal to them and covers any registered project, not only the one first mentioned on the application — but it still needs to be current, not merely applied for, before facilitating a transaction.
- Escrow withdrawals without proportionate certification. Drawing from the separate account without certification matching construction progress from an engineer, architect and chartered accountant is a Section 4 compliance gap, not a paperwork formality.
- Leaving an extension application to the last month. Extension needs to be sought at least 3 months before the registration expires, and cannot exceed what local law allows for completion of the project — a constraint that rewards early planning rather than a last-minute filing.
13. How Marcken Consulting Supports RERA-Adjacent Compliance in Hyderabad
13.1 Where a CA Firm Fits in the RERA Process
TSRERA is the statutory authority for registration and regulation under the Act, and Marcken Consulting is not the registering authority and does not act as one. Where our practice intersects with RERA compliance — the work promoters and agents typically have in mind when searching for a RERA registration consultant in Hyderabad — is in the areas that sit naturally with a Chartered Accountancy firm’s work: preparing the financial and documentation package that supports a registration application, chartered accountant certification for escrow account withdrawals, and coordinating with the architects, engineers and legal advisors a developer is already working with so that registration, disbursement certification and ongoing compliance move on a consistent timeline.
13.2 Why Promoters and Agents in Hyderabad Work With Marcken
Three practical points define how the engagement runs:
- Chartered accountancy and IBBI-registered valuation under one roof. Escrow withdrawal certification and any independent valuation of land, a project or development rights can run within a single engagement rather than across two separate firms.
- Merchant Banker certification, coordinated. Where a transaction also requires a Merchant Banker’s certificate, that certificate is issued by a SEBI-registered Category-I Merchant Banker within the same coordinated engagement.
- Registration-to-certification continuity. The team that assembles the registration documentation is the same team certifying escrow withdrawals and supporting quarterly project updates, so project facts are not re-explained at each stage.
With TSRERA’s process running online, and BuildNow now handling building-permission approvals digitally as well, this work does not depend on where the advisor sits — documentation, certification and follow-up run through the portals and by correspondence, with the statutory filings themselves always made to TSRERA.
13.3 Related Services for Hyderabad Businesses
Developers and investors who need an independent valuation of land, a project, or development rights ahead of a transaction can find that covered on our Registered Valuer in Hyderabad page. Real estate businesses structuring employee stock option plans for site, sales or project teams may also find our ESOP Consultant in Hyderabad page relevant.
This guide is part of our city-wise RERA series — companion guides cover RERA registration in Ahmedabad, RERA registration in Jaipur and RERA registration in Kolkata.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is RERA registration mandatory for every real estate project in Hyderabad?
Only where the land proposed for development exceeds 500 square metres or the number of apartments exceeds 8, inclusive of all phases, under Section 3(2)(a) of the Act. Smaller projects, completed projects, and pure renovation or redevelopment work without new sale or allotment fall outside the requirement.
How much does TSRERA registration cost?
Project registration is charged per square metre of land under Rule 3(3) of the Telangana Rules, from Rs 5 per sq m for smaller group housing projects up to Rs 25 per sq m for larger commercial projects, with a monetary cap for each category ranging from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Agent registration costs Rs 10,000 for an individual and Rs 50,000 for a firm, LLP or company under Rule 8(2), with renewal at Rs 5,000 and Rs 25,000 respectively under Rule 10(2).
Where is the TSRERA office in Hyderabad?
At the DTCP Building, Ground Floor, #640, A.C. Guards, Masab Tank, Opposite PTI Building, Hyderabad – 500004. Applications, however, are filed online through rera.telangana.gov.in, so a visit is generally needed only for hearings or specific offline matters.
How long does TSRERA take to process a registration application?
The Authority is required to grant or reject an application within 30 days under Section 5 of the Act and Rule 5 of the Telangana Rules. If it does neither within that period, the project is treated as registered by default.
Do real estate agents in Hyderabad need separate RERA registration?
Yes. Under Section 9, any agent facilitating the sale or purchase of a unit in a registered project needs their own registration with TSRERA, regardless of any other professional membership or brokerage licence they hold.
How often does an agent’s TSRERA registration need to be renewed?
Every 5 years. Renewal must be applied for in Form J at least 3 months before the existing registration expires under Rule 10(1), at a fee of Rs 5,000 for an individual or Rs 25,000 for an entity under Rule 10(2).
What happens if a promoter sells units before registering the project?
It is a default under Section 59, carrying a penalty of up to 10% of the estimated project cost, with imprisonment of up to 3 years or a further fine possible if the promoter continues to disregard the Authority’s order to register.
How do I file a complaint with TSRERA?
Under Section 31, in Form M under Rule 34 of the Telangana Rules, with a Rs 1,000 fee. Compensation and interest claims under Sections 12, 14, 18 or 19 go before the Adjudicating Officer in Form N, and appeals from either forum lie to the Telangana Real Estate Appellate Tribunal within 60 days.
Can I verify a project’s RERA registration before booking a unit?
Yes, through the project search function on the official TSRERA portal, which shows the registration number, promoter details, sanctioned layout, and disclosures filed since registration.
Do I need a RERA registration consultant in Hyderabad?
No consultant is mandatory — TSRERA’s process is self-service through the online portal, and a promoter or agent can file directly. Professional help is typically engaged where the documentation package is heavy (title, sanctioned plans, financial disclosures), where escrow withdrawal certification by a chartered accountant is needed on an ongoing basis, or where quarterly updates, extensions and hearings have to run on a disciplined timeline alongside the project and its BuildNow building-permission approvals. A RERA registration consultant in Hyderabad adds value in that preparation and coordination — not as a substitute for the Authority’s own process.
Is a chartered accountant required anywhere in the RERA process?
Yes, most directly in certifying withdrawals from a project’s separate escrow account in proportion to construction progress, alongside the project’s architect and engineer, before funds can be released for that stage of the project.
Speak to Us
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