ORERA Tightens Real Estate Reporting Rules from December 2025
The Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority (ORERA) has announced a comprehensive revamp of quarterly reporting requirements for registered real estate agents. Effective from the quarter ending December 2025, agents will be required to provide detailed, transaction-by-transaction disclosures along with supporting documentation.
According to a report by The Times of India, a review by the Directorate General of Audit for Indirect Taxes and Customs revealed that many quarterly returns filed by agents were incomplete and lacked the necessary financial detail required for central monitoring. In response, ORERA has reworked the quarterly progress report (QPR) format to capture more granular information about an agent's activities each quarter.
The new filing requirements mandate agents to declare identification and registration particulars, tax identifiers, the projects and promoters they represented, the precise contractual roles they performed, commissions received, and a ledger of associated financial transactions. Additionally, the revised proforma mandates the submission of documentary annexures, including copies of sale deeds, conveyance and lease agreements, allotment records, payment receipts, and entries from relevant registers, ensuring that each reported transaction is backed by verifiable documents.
ORERA has made the updated QPR compulsory from the reporting period ending December 2025, with quarterly submissions thereafter. The authority has warned that failure to furnish complete information or deliberate misreporting will result in action under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, including monetary penalties and other statutory measures available to the regulator.
The enhanced reporting regime aligns with ORERA’s recent efforts to strengthen case management and technical review within the authority. In October, the regulator initiated the process of appointing an external land specialist, preferably a retired Odisha Administrative Service officer with substantial field experience as a tehsildar, sub-collector, or land acquisition official, to assist in cases involving complex land records, boundary disputes, or technical scrutiny of plans.
This appointment is designed to support ORERA’s Conciliation and Dispute Resolution (CDR) cell, established earlier this year to provide a faster, lower-cost forum for settling disagreements between promoters, agents, and homebuyers.
Alongside stricter filings and added technical capacity, ORERA has been integrating its approval and registration workflows with digital land records and strengthening ties with the Housing and Urban Development Department and district revenue offices. District collectors and tehsildars have been instructed to flag unauthorized construction and suspicious transactions so the regulator can act promptly.
Officials stated that the combination of transaction-level QPRs, expert land scrutiny, and tighter inter-agency coordination will enhance the regulator’s ability to detect irregularities, protect consumer interests, and verify on-ground project progress more reliably.
