Every project on Brickplot runs through the same 11-axis scoring formula — legal title, RERA disclosure, builder financials, location risk, price trajectory, construction risk and seven more — with no builder commissions and no editorial thumb on the scale. As of the last week of May 2026, that formula has produced a published verdict for 2,596 projects across India. This Sunday we pulled the full distribution. The headline number is uncomfortable for the industry: fewer than one in ten new-launch and ready projects earns a clean Buy Now.
The 2,596-project verdict split
Here is the entire scored dataset broken into the three verdict bands. The cut-offs are fixed and mechanical: Buy Now ≥ 8.0, Wait 6.5–7.9, Avoid < 6.5. The dataset average sits at 6.34 / 10 — squarely inside the Wait band, which tells you the typical Indian launch is neither a screaming buy nor an outright reject. It is a maybe that needs work.
| Verdict | Score band | Projects | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy Now | ≥ 8.0 | 237 | 9.1% |
| Wait | 6.5 – 7.9 | 1,184 | 45.6% |
| Avoid | < 6.5 | 1,175 | 45.3% |
Read that again: 45.3% of scored projects fall into Avoid. Not because the apartments are ugly, but because something measurable is wrong — a missing or lapsed RERA registration, an unresolved title encumbrance, a stalled construction timeline, a builder with thin financials, or a hard-cap trigger like a flood-prone CWC Category-A site with no engineered mitigation. The Wait band, almost identical in size, is where most launches live: fundamentally fine, but with one or two open questions a buyer should close before paying a token.
Where the good projects cluster
Verdict quality is not evenly spread across cities. Among the projects in our dataset that carry a city tag, here is the average score and the share clearing each band:
| City | Projects | Avg score | % Buy Now | % Avoid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mumbai | 131 | 6.80 | 4.6% | 22.9% |
| Hyderabad | 193 | 6.77 | 3.1% | 21.8% |
| Pune | 120 | 6.67 | 0.8% | 24.2% |
| Bangalore | 1,184 | 6.55 | 18.3% | 45.3% |
| Gurgaon | 77 | 6.36 | 0.0% | 36.4% |
| Chennai | 166 | 6.35 | 2.4% | 42.8% |
| Noida | 34 | 6.14 | 0.0% | 47.1% |
Two things jump out. First, Mumbai and Hyderabad lead on average quality — tighter RERA enforcement (MahaRERA and TSRERA) and fewer pre-launch grey-market deals push their scores up. Second, Bangalore looks like an outlier on the Buy Now column at 18.3%, but that figure is partly an artefact of data depth, not just quality: Bangalore is where Brickplot has verified the most documents (EC, khata, mother deed, RERA Form A/B), and a project cannot cross 8.0 without that verified paper trail. Cities with thinner document coverage — Gurgaon, Noida — have zero projects at Buy Now not because nothing there is good, but because too little has been verified to award the top band. Honest scoring means an unverified project stays in Wait, not Buy.
What this means if you're buying in 2026
The distribution is a buyer's map. If a broker tells you a launch is a "can't-miss," remember that statistically, only 9 in 100 actually clear the bar — and the other 91 have a reason they don't. The single most valuable move you can make is to treat a Wait verdict as a checklist, not a rejection. A Wait usually flags exactly which axis is soft: pull that thread (ask for the RERA QPR, the latest construction photos, the sanctioned plan) and you either convert it to a personal Buy or you walk away with eyes open.
Actionable tip: Before you pay any booking amount, look up the project's verdict and its weakest axis. If the soft axis is Legal & Title (weight 16) or Construction & Delivery Risk, do not pay until it's resolved in writing — those two carry the most downside. A soft Liveability or Yield axis is far more livable.
Brickplot has scored 2,596 projects so far and adds more every week, with no money changing hands between us and any builder. Check the Brickplot verdict and 11-axis breakdown for any project in your city before you book → It costs you nothing and it is the cheapest due diligence you will ever do on the most expensive purchase of your life.
All figures sourced from the Brickplot dataset, late May 2026. City rows reflect scored projects carrying a city tag and will not sum to the full 2,596.