About RERA

About RERA Act- 2016

The real estate sector plays a catalytic role in fulfilling the need and demand for housing and infrastructure in the country. While this sector has grown significantly in recent years, it has been largely unregulated, with absence of professionalism and standardisation and lack of adequate consumer protection. Though the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 is available as a forum to the buyers in the real estate market, the recourse is only curative and is not adequate to address all the concerns of buyers and promoters in that sector. The lack of standardisation has been a constraint to the healthy and orderly growth of industry. Therefore, the need for regulating the sector has been emphasised in various forums.

The RERA Act aims to safeguard and provide effective consumer protection, uniformity and standardization of business practices and transactions in the Real Estate Sector. The Act provides for establishment of Real Estate Regulatory Authority for regulation and promotion of real estate sector and to ensure sale of plot, apartment or building, as the case may be, in an efficient and transparent manner and to protect the interest of consumers in real estate sector and establish the Real Estate Appellate Tribunal to hear appeals from the decisions, directors or orders of the Authority. RERA Act will ensure greater accountability towards consumers, and significantly reduce frauds and delays as also the current high transaction costs. It attempts to balance the interests of consumers and promoters by imposing certain responsibilities of both. It seeks to establish symmetry of information between the promoter and purchaser, transparency of contractual conditions, set minimum standards of accountability and a fast track dispute resolution mechanism. The Act will induct professionalism and standardisation in the sector, thus paving the way for accelerated growth and investments in the long run.

RERA JOURNEY

2013

Introduced in Rajya sabha

Bill 2013 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 14th August, 2013 with the objects of bringing in Professionalism and Standardization and Accountability towards consumers in the Real Estate Sector.

2016

Got Approval of the Parliament

The bill got approved in the Rajya Sabha on 10 March 2016 and by the Lok Sabha on 15 March 2016 and by Act 16 of 2016 dt: 26/03/2016, The Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act 2016 came into force with effect from 01/05/2016.

2018

The Govt. of TELANGANA has inaugurate the RERA office on 31/08/2018 and come into force on 01/09/2018.

· The Government of TELANGANA marked the rules from The Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act 2016 and these rules may be called the Telangana State Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2017.

· These Rules applicable to all Real Estate Projects whose building permissions approved on or after 01.01.2017 by the Competent Authorities viz., UDAs / DTCP / Municipal Corporations / Municipalities / Nagar Panchayats / TSIIC.

· The Government of TELANGANA brought the Online Registration from 01/09/2018.