{"id":1084575,"date":"2026-02-18T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/?p=1084575"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:52:22","slug":"supreme-court-questions-rera-functioning-asks-states-to-rethink-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/supreme-court-questions-rera-functioning-asks-states-to-rethink-authorities","title":{"rendered":"Better to abolish RERA if it only helps builders: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homebuyers are disappointed with the regulatory authority, the apex court said in an order on February 12, 2026.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Homebuyers are <\/span>\u201cdepressed, disgusted and disappointed<\/span><\/i>\u201d with real estate regulatory authorities, the Supreme Court said on February 12, 2026, questioning whether the bodies were serving their intended purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was \u201chigh time\u201d that States revisited the functioning, and even the very existence,\u00a0 of Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERA) if they merely facilitated defaulting developers, a Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExcept for facilitating the builders in default, this institution is doing nothing. Better abolish this institution, we don’t mind that\u2026 high time that all the States should revisit and rethink even constituting this authority,\u201d<\/span><\/i> the Bench said while hearing an appeal against a Himachal Pradesh High Court order staying a State notification to shift the RERA office to Dharamshala.<\/span><\/p>\n

The court said regulatory authorities would be better abolished if they failed to safeguard homebuyers, for whom they were created.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe people for whom this institution was created\u2026 are completely depressed, disgusted and disappointed. None of them is getting any effective relief,\u201d<\/span><\/i> the Bench remarked.<\/span><\/p>\n

The apex court\u2019s criticism is not new. Last year, while hearing petitions seeking directions to financial institutions not to charge pre-EMIs or full EMIs from homebuyers, it had termed RERA authorities \u201crehabilitation centres for former bureaucrats who have frustrated the entire scheme of the Act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act of 2016 took effect on May 1, 2017, to empower homebuyers to assert their rights and obtain remedies for their grievances. However, the implementation of this law has faced significant criticism from the courts over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homebuyers are disappointed with the regulatory authority, the apex court said in an order on February 12, 2026. Homebuyers are \u201cdepressed, disgusted and disappointed\u201d with real estate regulatory authorities, the Supreme Court said on February 12, 2026, questioning whether the bodies were serving their intended purpose. It was \u201chigh time\u201d that States revisited the functioning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":1084576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084578,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084575\/revisions\/1084578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}