MahaRERA's August 2026 Extension: What It Means for Your Nashik Home

Order 66/2026, and what it moved

MahaRERA, the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority, issued Order No. 66/2026 on 7 August 2026, granting an automatic four-month extension to the registration and completion timelines of eligible projects across Maharashtra. Developers file nothing. The extension applies by itself.

Force majeure is the basis. The Government of India recognised the prevailing West Asia situation as a force majeure event, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs advised state regulators to grant a uniform extension. Global supply chain disruptions and logistical difficulties followed, and those are what the order points at.

The arithmetic is simple. A project registered for completion in March 2026 now runs to July 2026. One due in December 2026 runs to April 2027. Four months, applied once.

Which Nashik projects qualify

Two conditions decide it. The project must be registered with MahaRERA, and its completion date, revised completion date or extended completion date must fall on or after 28 February 2026.

One exclusion catches people out. Projects registered on or after 1 August 2026 do not receive the extension. Registration date and completion date are separate tests, and a project can pass the second while failing the first.

Nashik has active projects along Nashik Road and Sinnar Road among other corridors. Looking at one of them, ask the developer three things directly. What is the MahaRERA registration number. What is the registered completion date. Has MahaRERA confirmed this project's eligibility in writing. Verbal assurance is not proof, and written MahaRERA correspondence is.

What the extension does not cover

Projects already delayed before the order get nothing from it. Something due in 2024 or early 2025 that has still not delivered cannot recover that time through this route.

Nor does it excuse what sits with the developer. Poor site management, labour disputes that could have been handled, financial mismanagement, funds diverted to other projects, unauthorized construction, building code violations, and breaches of Nashik Municipal Corporation conditions are not force majeure. The order addresses one documented external event and nothing else.

It is also no guarantee of delivery on the revised date. What it provides is a regulatory allowance and a legally defensible timeline for qualifying projects. Construction can still meet fresh obstacles after it.

Checking your own project

Ask the developer for the MahaRERA registration certificate. It carries the project name, registration number, registered completion date and developer details. Set the completion date against the 28 February 2026 threshold, and the registration date against 1 August 2026.

Then ask in writing whether the developer holds confirmation of the project's eligibility, and what the revised completion date now is. A qualifying project should have that documentation ready. Vagueness at this point answers a different question than the one you asked.

Search the project yourself at maharera.mahaonline.gov.in by name or registration number, where the registered project details and any official notices are visible. It takes five minutes and removes the guesswork. A project that is not listed, or whose dates contradict what the developer told you, is a reason to stop until someone explains the gap.

Getting it into the agreement

Ask for four documents before signing the buyer's agreement: the MahaRERA registration certificate showing the original completion date, a letter from the developer confirming eligibility and stating the revised date, any MahaRERA notices relating to this specific project, and the current construction progress report.

A developer who cannot or will not produce them has handed you grounds to walk away. Transparency on timelines is a buyer's right under RERA rather than a courtesy.

Then write the revised completion date into the agreement itself. Brochure timelines and verbal promises protect nobody. Work out what four months does to your own plans as well, because a handover sliding from March to July suits some buyers and not others, and that conversation belongs before the signature rather than after it. JebuK Properties reviews project eligibility and documentation with buyers in Nashik, and a 15-minute verification call is usually enough to settle it.