Before a project is registered with K-RERA, you can register your interest, but you should not pay any money. That is the whole rule. Everything below explains where the line sits, how to check a registration number, and what changes on launch day.
New Prestige launches in Bengaluru are often heavily subscribed, so buyers want to be early. Being early is sensible. Paying early is not.
What RERA says about pre launch sales
Under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, a project must be registered with the state authority, K-RERA in Karnataka, before it can be advertised, marketed, booked or sold. The registration number is how you check that a project is real. It also records the completion date the developer is bound by.
That is why a genuine pre launch page asks for your name and phone number and nothing else. It cannot quote a binding price, take a booking or promise a unit.
What is fine before registration
- Registering your interest with an authorised sales partner.
- Receiving announcements, and later the brochure, plans and price list when they are released.
- Visiting the location and doing your own homework on the area, its roads, schools and hospitals.
- Reading how Prestige price sheets are built, so you can compare the first sheet you see with others. Our guide to reading a Prestige price sheet covers the extra charges that sit outside the headline price.
What you should never do
Pay any money: no token, no booking amount, no refundable "EOI cheque". Until the registration exists you have no protection under RERA for that money. If anyone asks for a payment before the RERA number is published, walk away.
The same goes for a "soft allotment", a "unit hold" or a verbal promise of a specific floor. None of these is a booking you can enforce. A project that is allowed to take your money will show a registration number on its brochure and on the price sheet.
How to check a registration number
- Find the number on the brochure or price list. Prestige Parklane, for example, prints PRM/KA/RERA/1251/309/PR/150926/008941, and the date code at the end of it reads 15 September 2026.
- Search for that number on the K-RERA website, rera.karnataka.gov.in, and read the project page it opens.
- Check that the project name, the promoter and the completion date match what you were shown.
- Ask the person selling to you for their own agent registration number as well. The two are different things: one is for the project, the other is for the agent.
The completion date matters most. Prestige Greenbrook, a plotted layout near Devanahalli, shows a RERA completion date of 31 March 2027. Parklane shows possession on 31 December 2030. Those dates are what the developer is bound by, not a brochure estimate.
What happens at launch
When the project is registered, the price list and inventory are released and bookings open. Buyers already on the list hear first, which is the whole point of registering early. The price sheet you receive will usually carry a validity date. Parklane's launch sheets, for example, were valid till 27 September 2026 and asked for post dated cheques within 30 days of booking.
Read that sheet before you commit. Check the base price, the car park, the other charges and the GST note, and ask what is not included. Stamp duty and registration are extra on every Prestige sheet we hold.
Where to look next
If you want to see what a registered launch looks like in practice, start with our list of Prestige launches in Bangalore in 2026, then open the Prestige Parklane project page, which carries its RERA number, price range and possession date. If you are still deciding between projects, which Prestige project suits whom sorts them by budget and purpose.
One practical step: before you pay anything to anyone, send us the RERA number you were given and ask us to check it against the project name. It takes a few minutes and removes the biggest risk in a new launch.
