11 axes. Mechanical formula. No editorial override. RERA non-compliance hard-capped at 4.9.
Eleven yes/no questions. The lowest cap that triggers becomes the ceiling on your composite score, regardless of how the other axes perform. Pick "Don't know" if you haven't verified the answer yet — the checker will skip it.
v2 ran for the back half of 2026 across the 1,721-project corpus and held up against the Amrapali / Jaypee / Unitech and Supertech failure pattern. What it missed sat one layer down — closer to how Indian buyers and investors actually score a project on their own kitchen table.
A second-pass review of buyer-survey data, broker call logs and investor due-diligence checklists across Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Gurgaon and Mumbai surfaced three gaps. First, climate and environmental risk: buyers in Chennai (2015, 2023 floods), Bangalore (2022 outer-ring inundation) and Delhi-NCR (annual AQI > 300) now treat flood-zone status, AQI history, seismic zone and industrial-corridor distance as deal-breakers. v2 had none of these as scored inputs. Second, liveability and build quality: density, parking ratio, water source (Cauvery/BWSSB versus borewell), STP commissioning, power backup and fire systems beyond NOC are the day-one livability questions every owner-occupier asks — and v2 buried them inside Governance. Third, investment yield: rental yield, days-on-market, tenant-pool depth and holding cost are the four numbers every plot/apartment investor opens a spreadsheet for, and v2 ignored all four.
v3 adds two new axes — Liveability & Build Quality and Investment Yield & Exit Liquidity — and folds Climate Risk into Location. Eleven axes instead of nine. Five new hard caps cover flood zones, missing STPs, sub-1.0 parking ratios in premium segments, borewell-only water in deficit zones, and chronic AQI exceedance. The mechanical-formula discipline and segment normalisation carry over unchanged.
Weights sum to 100. Each axis has its own data sources, its own rubric, and its own hard caps. Full coefficients are in the Rubric.
Amrapali, Jaypee and Unitech all failed here first. Title rot precedes every visible problem.
Goes beyond binary registration to the truthfulness and timeliness of QPRs and Form-3 disclosures.
The DHFL and IL&FS pattern: parent-SPV net-worth gaps and bond downgrades show up before defaults.
Real owner voices, not coached reviews. Bot-filtered and weighted to possession-cohort follow-ups.
A bank putting its own money on title is the cleanest independent legal proxy you can buy.
Sanctioned master plans, metro DPRs, flood-zone maps and 5-year AQI all decide whether your address is future-proof or future-stranded. v3 absorbs CWC flood maps, AQI 5-yr trend, seismic zone and industrial-corridor proximity.
Segment-normalised price velocity exposes whether you are paying for tomorrow or topping out today. v3 adds supply-pipeline pressure within 2 km / next 24 months.
Stalled builds and missing OCs are visible from orbit; we look monthly and compare to QPR claims.
Supertech Emerald Court was demolished for an approvals failure that was visible on day one.
New in v3. Density, specs, parking, water source, STP, power backup and fire systems decide whether the building is pleasant to live in — separate from whether it gets built. Indian buyers consistently rank these in the top three drivers; v2 buried them inside Governance.
New in v3. Investors care about gross and net rental yield, days-on-market, tenant-pool depth and holding cost (CAM, property tax, vacancy). v2 had none of this; v3 makes it an axis without crowding owner-occupier signals.
A weighted average can flatter a project that has one fatal flaw. These hard caps prevent that. If a tripwire fires, the score is capped no matter what the other axes look like.
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Each project is graded against its own segment. PMAY/CLSS questions only fire on Affordable. Bank-loan-depth weight halves on Ultra because cash-buyer dominance is normal there. Buyer-sentiment weight rises on Mid where forum noise has the most signal.
NRI buyers carry FEMA, POA and remittance risk on top of every standard risk. The NRI-Safe flag is additive — it does not change the numeric score. To earn it a builder must have handled at least 20 NRI transactions, run a FEMA-compliant escrow, publish a vetted POA template, and have a clean FIRC history without dispute.
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