How we rank properties
Every properties business is scored on the factors that matter to a real decision. The weights below are published, the inputs are verified, and the result is a single Reality10 Quality Index (RQI) out of 100. Placement can never be bought.
How each score is derived
Every score comes from a cited public fact through a fixed formula — nothing is hand-assigned. A missing signal is left out, not scored zero.
The RQI is a weighted blend of six dimensions. Four are derivable from public records for every builder; two come from verified owner reviews and appear only once a builder has them.
- Delivery consistency (22%) — track record: delivered area blended with years in operation, less points for each documented, cited project delay (3 for a minor one, 7 for a delay of roughly one to three years, 12 for longer), plus a small credit where a rating agency or the RERA record — not the builder — attests on-time delivery.
- Construction standards (16%) — from verified owners' construction-quality ratings. Appears once a builder has reviews; until then it is left out, not scored zero.
- Financial resilience (18%) — the builder's latest cited long-term credit rating (AAA → 98 down to B → 40), discounted when the rating belongs to a parent or a single project rather than the developer. Unrated builders get a cautious band from listing status (80 for large listed down to 58), always below an investment-grade rating.
- Legal & compliance (14%) — Karnataka RERA promoter registration on file, less points for each cited adverse finding: K-RERA or consumer-court orders, tax searches, regulatory action, financial-distress flags (1, 5 or 12 by severity).
- Customer experience (20%) — from verified owner reviews, tier-weighted and shrunk toward a neutral prior for small samples. Appears once a builder has reviews.
- Transparency (10%) — how much cited public evidence backs the profile, whether the builder is rated by a recognised agency, and a deduction where an agency reports the issuer is not cooperating.
Builder segments — large, mid, boutique & emerging
Delivery consistency rewards sheer volume of completed work, so the national giants would always sit on top of one combined list. To give the best builder of every size its due, we also group builders into size segments and rank each one within its own segment on the same six-dimension RQI — see Best builders by segment.
- Large-cap — listed large-cap, or 50M+ sq ft completed.
- Mid-cap — listed mid-cap, or roughly 12–50M sq ft completed.
- Boutique — established boutique builders: under ~12M sq ft and more than 15 years in the market.
- Emerging — new entrants in the same size band, incorporated within the last 15 years; they graduate to boutique as they mature. A time-based rule, not a hand-assigned label.
Every builder is scored on the same absolute RQI; segments only decide who a builder is listed against, so a strong boutique builder leads its own segment instead of being buried under the giants. The real cited figures (completed sq ft, listing, incorporation, K-RERA) remain on each builder's profile.
What we don't yet score
Our November 2026 research pass looked for these for every builder and could not substantiate them from public sources, so they stay unscored rather than guessed:
- K-RERA complaint and registered-project counts per promoter (the portal does not publish them in a comparable form)
- On-time delivery rates across a builder's whole portfolio — only individual documented delays are scored
- Independent buyer-satisfaction data with a stated sample
- Build quality from independent inspection
An empty delay or adverse-finding record means nothing was found in public sources. It is not proof of a clean record, and builders with a small Bengaluru footprint have had less public scrutiny. Delivered-area figures are each builder's published total and are not always measured the same way (some include commercial or contract work).
A ranking is published only once enough businesses clear our quality threshold — never to fill ten slots — and every list shows when it was last reviewed. Sponsored placements, where present, are always labelled and kept separate from these rankings.