The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has advised every state real estate regulatory authority to extend registration and completion timelines by four months for projects whose deadline falls on or after February 28, 2026, treating the West Asia conflict as a force majeure event. The advisory is not binding on states, but it set the template that Haryana, Maharashtra and other RERAs have since followed with their own extension orders.
What this changes for a title check
This advisory itself changes nothing on a project's registration record, since MoHUA has no power to directly amend a state RERA's registration certificate. It only sets a common four month extension template and a common trigger date, completion dates falling on or after February 28, 2026, that state RERAs are being asked to adopt. For a lender or title checking team working across states, the practical effect is that the same delayed project can be treated differently depending on whether that state's RERA has actually issued its own extension order yet, which is why Haryana and Maharashtra needed separate orders even after this advisory existed. Due diligence on a project completion date should now include a check of whether the specific state RERA has formally extended timelines, rather than assuming the advisory alone pushed every project's deadline by four months. It also gives legal teams a factual anchor, the government's own classification of the West Asia conflict as a force majeure event, that promoters in states without a state level extension order yet could still cite defensively against default or refund claims.