Do real-estate agents need RERA registration? Duties, renewals and penalties
Yes — and the obligation is broader than many practising agents assume. Facilitating the sale or purchase of an apartment in a registered project without agent registration is an offence, not an irregularity.
What an agent must do
- Hold a valid registration and quote the registration number in every advertisement and document.
- Avoid facilitating a sale in a project that is not itself registered where registration is required.
- Maintain books of account and records of the transactions facilitated.
- Refrain from making representations about the project that the sanctioned plans and disclosures do not support.
Renewal is where lapses happen
Registration is not perpetual. Diarise the renewal well ahead of expiry — an agent operating on a lapsed registration is in the same position as one who never registered.
The registration number belongs on the listing, not in a drawer.
For an established agency the compliance load is modest and the downside of ignoring it — penalties and unenforceable commission claims — is not.
More reading
An agent's records and advertisements: what MahaRERA expects to see
Registration is the beginning. The obligations that follow are the ones agents are actually penalised for missing.
Registering a project with MahaRERA: the document set that avoids a query
Most registration delays are not rejections — they are queries against an incomplete file. Here is the bundle that goes in clean the first time.
The 2026 MahaRERA QPR calendar every promoter needs
Quarterly Progress Reports are where good projects quietly slip into default. Here is the year-round calendar — and the disclosures that trip promoters up most.