MahaRERA's Four-Month Extension: What It Changes for Nashik Buyers

What Order 66/2026 did

MahaRERA Order No. 66/2026 of 7 August 2026 extended by four months every registered project whose completion date falls on or after 28 February 2026, according to Moneylife's report and Kirtane & Pandit's reading of the order. The extension applies automatically. Promoters do not have to apply. Projects registered on or after 1 August 2026 are excluded.

The order cites the situation in West Asia as force majeure, after the central government treated it as one and advised regulators to grant a common extension. We could not reach the order's text, so check it on the MahaRERA site before relying on a detail.

Which projects it covers

Two tests decide it. The project's completion date, revised completion date or extended completion date must be on or after 28 February 2026. And the project must have been registered before 1 August 2026. A project that fails either test gets nothing from the order.

A project already late before 28 February 2026 cannot use it to recover that time.

What it moves, and what it may not

The order moves the completion date on the MahaRERA register. Kirtane & Pandit point out that it does not, on its face, change the possession date in your agreement for sale, or your right to interest for delay.

That right comes from section 18 of the RERA Act. If the promoter fails to give possession by the date in the agreement, you can withdraw and get your money back with interest, or stay and receive interest for every month of delay. In Maharashtra the rate is the State Bank of India's highest marginal cost of lending rate plus 2%. Whether a promoter can use this order to resist a delay-interest claim is the open question. Keep your agreement's possession date in front of you if a developer cites the order.

Checking your project

Search the project on maharera.maharashtra.gov.in, the only official site. The registered completion date is on the project page. Compare it with the possession date in your agreement, and with what the developer has told you in writing.

Then ask the developer, in writing, whether they treat the project as extended under Order 66/2026 and what date they now give for possession. A written answer is what you would rely on in a complaint.

If you are about to book

Write the possession date into the agreement for sale. The agreement must follow the MahaRERA model form, and the promoter cannot take more than 10% of the cost before it is registered. A four-month extension on the register is no reason to accept a vaguer date in the agreement itself.

JebuK Properties, MahaRERA agent registration A031222602911, checks RERA status with buyers at no charge.