AEROVISTASearch "RERA Delhi registration check" and the first instinct is to type rera.delhi.gov.in into your browser. Fair enough, that's the department's main address. But that domain has been unreliable for years, and even when it loads, it isn't where the actual project database lives. The Real Estate Regulatory Authority, NCT of Delhi runs its public project search on a separate system built by C-DAC Mohali (a government IT body, not some private vendor), and that's the address you actually want bookmarked.
Why Delhi's setup trips people up
Most states point you to one clean rera.[state].gov.in address and the search tool lives right there. Delhi's history is messier. The authority itself, the Real Estate Regulatory Authority for NCT of Delhi, sits under the Land and Building Department and operates out of an office at Shivaji Stadium Annexe on Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg. Its official contact addresses run through the rera.delhi.gov.in domain, but the public-facing registered projects list and search tool has been hosted separately, at erera.co.in, since that's the platform C-DAC built for the authority's day-to-day online registration and search functions. If the main department site is down or slow, which happens more often than it should, the search portal is still usually reachable.
How to actually verify a project
Open the Delhi RERA project search portal and look for the registered projects list. You can filter or search by project name, promoter name, or general locality. Once you find a listing, click through to see its full details rather than trusting the summary row. One quirk worth knowing: projects marked with an asterisk on the list were registered before the online system went live, meaning the information shown was uploaded directly by the promoter and hasn't necessarily been independently verified by the authority yet. Treat those listings with a bit more caution and ask the promoter for their original registration certificate directly.
- Go to the Delhi RERA project search portal linked below.
- Search by project name, promoter name, or locality.
- Open the full listing, not just the summary row, and check whether it carries an asterisk flag.
- Cross-check the promoter's name to see what else they've registered in Delhi.
What to look for once you're in the listing
- Registration status: You want an active registration. Anything lapsed or revoked needs a direct explanation before you go further, not a vague reassurance from a salesperson.
- Whether it's asterisk-flagged: Older, pre-online-system entries deserve extra scrutiny since the authority hasn't independently confirmed everything on the page.
- Promoter history: Search the same builder's name and see what else they've filed. A pattern of delayed possession dates across multiple projects tells you something a single listing won't.
- Declared possession date: Match it against whatever the sales office is telling you out loud. Gaps of a year or more are worth pushing on before you pay anything.
A registration isn't a guarantee
Being listed on the Delhi RERA portal means a promoter has disclosed the project's approvals, layout plans, and financials, and has agreed to route a defined share of buyer payments into an account earmarked for construction. It doesn't mean the building will be finished on time or built the way the brochure promises. Treat the registration check as step one of your due diligence, not the whole process. Visit the site if you can, talk to anyone who's already bought in an earlier phase, and read the payment schedule line by line before signing.
If the portal is slow or won't load
Government portals across India, Delhi's included, tend to run into traffic spikes and server hiccups. If either domain is timing out, try again during off-peak hours, early morning or late at night usually works better than the middle of a weekday. It's a genuine inconvenience, but it doesn't change the fact that checking is still worth the wait. A ten-minute delay beats finding out after booking that a project was never properly registered.