How to check a Dholera builder before you pay anything
You do not need this site to check a Dholera project. Everything here comes from a government portal that is open to anyone, and the six checks below are the ones that matter, in the order they matter. Together they take about ten minutes and they will not cost you anything.
Do them before money moves rather than after. All six work on any Gujarat project, not only the 33 in this register, so the same routine is useful the next time as well.
- RERA registration number. The long code GujRERA issues to a project when it registers, for example PR/GJ/AHMEDABAD/DHOLERA/DSIRDA/PAA12719/211223/310328. It is the one thing that lets you look a project up on the government site and confirm it exists.
- GujRERA. The Gujarat Real Estate Regulatory Authority. It is the state government body that a builder has to register a housing or plotting project with before advertising or selling any part of it. Registration is a legal requirement, not a quality award.
- Quarterly progress report. Every registered project owes GujRERA a short update each quarter. The portal shows how many were due and how many were actually filed. It records paperwork, not construction.
Source: GujRERA Ahmedabad district project list · Every count on this page read 4 August 2026 · Status: OFFICIAL · No price, rate or return appears anywhere on it
Ask for the registration number, in writing
The first question is the whole game: what is the RERA registration number for this project? A registered project has one, it is long, and the seller has it to hand. Ask by message rather than in conversation so you have the exact string.
If you are told the project does not need registration, that can be true. Small schemes below the legal threshold are exempt, and a plain sale of agricultural land is not a registered project at all. What it means for you is that the protections that come with registration do not apply, so you should know that before you decide, not after.
If you are told registration is in process, ask when the application was filed and for the acknowledgement. In process is not registered, and money paid against a project that is only in process is money paid on trust.
Look the number up on the government portal
Open the GujRERA public portal and search the registration number. The project page carries the promoter name, the approval date, the declared completion date, the land area, the unit count, the village and the approving authority. Compare each one against what you have been shown.
Open the portal in a fresh browser tab. The project page reads the project number once when it loads, so if you already have GujRERA open and paste a new link into the same tab you will keep looking at the previous project without noticing.
The name on the record is the legal promoter, and it is often not the brand on the hoarding. That is normal. What is not normal is a promoter name nobody can explain the relationship to.
The 33 registered Dholera projects, with linksWhat the approving authority field says
Read the quarterly filing record
Every registered project owes GujRERA a short progress update each quarter, and the portal shows how many were due and how many arrived. It is the cheapest legal obligation a builder has. On this register 12 of the 33 projects have filed every quarter that has fallen due.
Filing measures paperwork rather than construction, so a full filing record is not proof that anything is being built. A poor filing record is more informative in the other direction: a company that will not send a form to its regulator is telling you something about how it handles obligations generally.
Check the completion date the builder declared
At registration the builder puts a completion date in writing to the state. It is a stronger promise than anything in a brochure, and it is public. Check whether it has already passed. On this register 17 of 33 projects carry a declared completion date that had already gone by 4 August 2026.
An elapsed date is not proof of failure. Extensions exist, and they are legitimate and recorded. It is a question, and the answer should be specific: was an extension granted, when, and what is the new date?
Count the complaint entries, and read them carefully
The portal publishes a ledger of applications against each project, and complaints appear on it. Across this register there are 16 complaint entries in total.
Read this one with real care. A complaint entry means somebody filed something. It is not a ruling, not a finding, and not evidence that a complaint was justified. The substance sits behind a login and is not public, so nobody outside the process can tell you what any of them were about. Treat a complaint entry as a question to ask and never as a verdict, in either direction.
Match the plot in front of you to the plot on the record
The five checks above verify a project. This one verifies your plot. Ask which survey number and which final plot you are being sold, and confirm it falls inside the land the registration covers. A registered scheme sitting next to unregistered land is an ordinary situation, and the registration protects only what is inside it.
Check the village too. 30 of the 33 projects here carry Dholera or DSIRDA evidence on their own record, which is the strongest location proof the portal offers. If a seller names a village that the government record does not, ask why before you assume one of them is wrong.
The four things no public record can tell you
These checks establish that a project exists, that its paperwork is in order and that it is where you were told. They cannot tell you whether the price is fair, because no price appears on the public record anywhere. They cannot tell you when the road, water and power outside the plot will actually arrive. They cannot tell you whether the title chain behind the land is clean, which is a lawyer reading documents rather than a website reading a portal. And they cannot tell you whether this is a good time to buy.
Anyone who tells you a ranking answered those four is selling you something. This register is deliberately narrow, and the page on what a high rank does not mean sets out its bias in full.
If a figure on this site does not match the government portal, the portal is right and we are wrong. Write to corrections@dholera-realestate.com with the registration number and the field, and the correction is published on the changes page with the date it was made.