RERA 2025 Amendments: What Buyers Must Now Demand Before Booking

Three Amendments. Most Buyers Have Never Heard of Them.

Three amendments came into effect under RERA in 2025. Most builders are not advertising them. Most buyers do not know they exist.

That asymmetry is the entire game. A builder who knows you have read the RERA documents behaves differently from a builder who knows you have not.

Amendment 1: Mandatory Escrow Utilisation Disclosure

Builders must disclose quarterly how project funds are utilised from the escrow account. This is no longer voluntary.

What to demand: Before booking, ask for the last two quarterly escrow reports. If they cannot produce them, that is a red flag worth walking away from.

The escrow report tells you whether your money — and the money of buyers before you — is actually going into construction, or somewhere else.

Amendment 2: Force Majeure Clause Restrictions

The 2025 amendment restricts builders from citing force majeure to delay possession unless declared by a government authority and directly causally linked to the project.

What to demand: Read the builder-buyer agreement clause on force majeure. Any clause that allows the builder to self-declare force majeure is non-compliant under the amendment.

Do not sign until the clause is corrected. This is the single most common source of indefinite delay weaponised against buyers — and it is now legally vulnerable.

Amendment 3: 10-Year Structural Defect Liability

RERA already had a 5-year provision. The 2025 amendment doubles this to 10 years for projects registered after January 2025.

What to demand: Confirm your project's RERA registration date. If it is post-January 2025, you have 10 years of structural defect liability. Ask the builder to put the applicable defect liability period in writing in the BBA.

If the agreement still cites 5 years, demand the correction.

These Protections Are Not Automatic

None of these protections are automatic. RERA only protects buyers who activate it.

A builder who knows a buyer has read the RERA documents behaves differently from a builder who knows a buyer has not. Read the agreement. Demand the documents. That single act resets the power balance at the booking table.