MahaRERA Form 6 Half-Yearly Report: Field-by-Field Filing Guide

The July 15 Deadline and What Form 6 Actually Is

Every registered intermediary in Maharashtra has two hard filing dates each year: 15 July and 15 January. The July 15 deadline covers the April to September half-year, and January 15 covers October to March. Miss either and the penalty clock starts running under Section 65 of the RERA Act.

Form 6 is the half-yearly report MahaRERA introduced through Circular No. 43/2023, dated 30 October 2023. It requires every real estate agent to declare the transactions they facilitated during the half-year, broken into two tables, plus a PMLA compliance status. The idea is simple: the Authority wants a running record of who brokered which deals, in which projects, and whether any complaints came up.

The report is not optional and there is no grace window. Even if you closed zero deals in the period, you still file a nil report. Filing nothing is treated the same as filing late.

Table A: Transactions on Behalf of Promoters

Table A captures every sale you facilitated in a MahaRERA-registered project where you acted on behalf of the promoter. This is your primary-market work. For each transaction you record the project name, the MahaRERA project registration number, the flat or unit number, the carpet area, the agreement value, and the date of the agreement for sale.

Classify carefully. If you introduced a buyer to a developer and the booking led to a registered agreement, that entry belongs in Table A regardless of whether your commission was paid by the buyer or the promoter. The test is the source of the inventory, not who paid you.

For part-period registrations, only report transactions dated after your certificate became active. If your registration was granted on 12 August, your July report covers 12 August to 30 September. Deals closed before your certificate date do not belong in the form, and reporting them creates a mismatch the Authority will flag.

Table B: Resale and Secondary Market Transactions

Table B is for resale deals. These are transactions where you facilitated the sale of a unit between two private parties, typically an existing allottee selling to a new buyer, without the promoter as the selling party. Ready-possession flats, resale of under-construction units, and transfer of booking rights all sit here.

The fields mirror Table A: project name where applicable, unit details, carpet area, transaction value, and agreement date. Where a resale unit is in a project that has received its occupancy certificate and is no longer under active RERA registration, record the project name and note the status in the remarks field rather than forcing a live registration number.

Complaints received during the period go into the designated column against the relevant transaction. If a buyer filed a MahaRERA complaint or served you a legal notice tied to a deal, log it. Suppressing a known complaint is a separate compliance failure, distinct from late filing.

The Nil Report and How to File It Correctly

A property advisor who facilitated no transactions in the half-year does not skip the filing. You submit Form 6 with the nil-report declaration ticked. This is a positive statement that you had zero reportable deals, not an absence of activity.

The common mistake is assuming that no business means no obligation. The Authority tracks filing compliance separately from transaction volume. A broker who did nil business but filed nothing is still exposed to the Section 65 penalty, because the violation is non-filing, not non-selling.

When you select the nil declaration, both Table A and Table B lock and the form generates a clean submission. Keep the acknowledgement. If MahaRERA later questions your dormancy or you approach the registration renewal stage, that trail of on-time nil reports protects your standing and supports a smooth re-registration.

The PMLA Trigger: Principal Officer and ₹20 Lakh Turnover

This is the section most consultants overlook. Under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act read with MahaRERA's reporting framework, any registered intermediary with annual turnover above ₹20 lakh must designate a Principal Officer and update MahaRERA records accordingly. Turnover here means your brokerage income, not the transaction value of the properties.

The Principal Officer is the person responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions to FIU-IND. If you cross the threshold, you submit the officer's name, designation, PAN, email, and phone number to MahaRERA and keep it current. For a sole proprietor, you are your own Principal Officer, but you still make the formal designation.

Do not treat this as a formality. High-value cash components, layered payments, and unexplained third-party funding are exactly what the framework targets. Maintaining KYC records for every buyer and seller you deal with is part of the same obligation, and the half-yearly filing is where MahaRERA checks that your PMLA status is declared.

Section 65 Penalty and the MahaCRITI Upload Walkthrough

Late or non-filing attracts a penalty under Section 65 of the RERA Act: ₹10,000 per day of continuing default, capped at 5% of the estimated cost of the project concerned. For a broker, the practical exposure runs day by day from 16 July until you file. Ten days late is ₹1,00,000. Run the numbers on your own exposure using the RERA penalty calculator before you assume it is minor.

To file: 1) Log in to MahaCRITI at the MahaRERA portal with your agent credentials. 2) Open the 'Agent' dashboard and select 'Half Yearly Report'. 3) Choose the correct period from the dropdown. 4) Fill Table A, then Table B, or tick the nil declaration. 5) Confirm your PMLA and Principal Officer status. 6) Preview, then submit and download the acknowledgement.

Common errors: 'Invalid project registration number' means a formatting mismatch, so copy it directly from the project page. 'Period already submitted' means a duplicate, so check your history. 'Mandatory field missing' usually points to a blank carpet area or agreement date.

Why This Matters for Your Certification and Exam

Form 6 compliance is not just operational housekeeping. The reporting duties of a registered intermediary flow directly from the functions of real estate agents under Section 10 of the RERA Act, and examiners test whether candidates understand the practical obligations that attach to registration, not just the definition of an agent.

Expect questions on filing deadlines, the Section 65 penalty structure, and the difference between primary and resale reporting. The PMLA angle increasingly appears in scenario-based questions, since the Authority has tightened its stance on suspicious transactions. Knowing the ₹20 lakh threshold and the Principal Officer requirement gives you an edge over candidates who studied only the bare Act.

Work through these obligations in a full-length RERA mock test and drill the penalty and agent-duty topics with a focused topic-wise practice test. Candidates who can file Form 6 in practice answer these questions faster, because they have done the thing the exam describes.