The journal.

Plain-English notes on reading the register, the filings, the timelines, the fine print.

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How to read a Quarterly Progress Report

Every registered project files a QPR each quarter. Here is what the numbers mean, and the one comparison that tells you the most.

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How to check UP RERA registration

Search the project name, promoter name or registration number on up-rera.in. Every registered Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway project sits here.

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What a completion-date extension means

More than half the projects on the Gautam Buddha Nagar register have moved their completion date. Here is how to read that, fairly.

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What the 25 UP-RERA documents mean

Every project registered with UP-RERA files against a fixed list of document types: sworn affidavits, sanctioned plans, and certificates from the project's engineer, architect and accountant. Here is what each one is and what it's for.

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Verify a builder on UP-RERA in 10 minutes

Before a token cheque, not after: five checks against the public UP-RERA record, including the builder's other projects, in about ten minutes.

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Noida, Greater Noida or Yamuna Expressway?

966 UP-RERA projects split across Noida, Greater Noida and the Yamuna Expressway, with real gaps in volume, timing and completion-date moves.

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How to use the UP-RERA portal

up-rera.in is the source of record. How to verify a project, check case status, file a complaint and check an agent's registration. Reviewed 7 September 2026.

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How your recovered UP-RERA money arrives

A recovery certificate is not a payment. Between the order and the transfer sits one affidavit most complainants do not know they have to file.

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Why 604 of 974 UP-RERA entries are dated 2017

604 of 974 registrations on this mirror are dated 2017, against 14 in 2020. UP-RERA commenced that year and projects already under way had to register.

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945 projects declared a build period: median 60 months

Of the 974 projects on this mirror, 945 declare how many months the work was expected to take. The shortest is 3, the longest 245, and 124 declare 60.

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318 of 484 names carry exactly one registration

318 of the 484 promoter names on this mirror carry exactly one registration. Eight carry ten or more. Names are counted as each filing spells them.

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957 register files hold documents; their median is 21

22,986 documents sit against 974 projects on this mirror. Among the 957 files holding at least one, the median holds 21, the largest 108, the smallest one.

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557 Ongoing, 409 New: the UP-RERA project type field

557 rows on this mirror read Ongoing and 409 read New, and 8 carry no value. The mirror carries the word, not a definition of either term.

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