2025-09-03
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued the 2025 Second Amendment Regulations to further modify the 2014 Real Estate Investment Trusts framework. The amendments redefine "public" to exclude REIT sponsors, groups, and managers while including qualified institutional buyers, and mandate that valuation reports be submitted to trustees simultaneously with stock exchanges. Additionally, the rules adjust reporting timelines for quarterly and half-yearly financial results, clarify cash flow adjustments for holding companies with negative distributable cash, and streamline disclosure requirements for designated stock exchanges.
5880 GI/2025 (1) REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 xxxGIDHxxx xxxGIDExxx EXTRAORDINARY PART III—Section 4 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 601] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2025/BHADRA 11, 1947 CG-MH-E-03092025-265921
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA NOTIFICATION Mumbai, the 1st September, 2025 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS) (SECOND AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2025 No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2025/258 - In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 30 read with Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the following regulations to further amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Real Estate Investment Trusts) Regulations, 2014, namely: – 4. These regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Real Estate Investment Trusts) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2025. 5. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 6. In the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Real Estate Investment Trusts) Regulations, 2014, ─ (1) in regulation 2, in sub-regulation (1), clause (ze) shall be substituted with the following, namely, – "(ze) “public” means any person other than: (i) the related party of the REIT, its sponsor, or manager; or (ii) any other person as may be specified by the Board: Provided that a person specified above, who is also a qualified institutional buyer in an offer, shall be considered as “public” for the purpose of these regulations: Provided further that the sponsor, sponsor group and manager of the REIT shall not be considered as “public” for the purpose of these regulations.” (2) in regulation 10, in sub-regulation (18), (a) in clause (a), after the words “status of development of under-construction properties, within”, the words “thirty days of end of such quarter” shall be substituted with the words “such time as may be specified by the Board for submission of quarterly financial results”; (b) in clause (b), (i) the words “as required under these regulations” shall be omitted; (ii) after the words “from the valuer”, the symbol “;” shall be substituted with the symbol “:”; (c) after clause (b), following proviso shall be inserted, namely, – “Provided that the valuation reports specified under sub-regulation (4) and sub-regulation (5) of regulation 21 of these regulations shall be submitted to the trustee simultaneously at the time of submission of such reports to the stock exchange(s) under regulation 21.”; (3) in regulation 14, (a) after sub-regulation (2A), (i) the first proviso shall be omitted; (ii) in the second proviso, after the word “provided” and before the words “that any listed REIT which has”, the word “further” shall be omitted; (4) in regulation 18, in sub-regulation (16), in clause (aa), (a) in sub-clause (i), after the words “shall be distributed to the REIT”, the word and symbol “; and” shall be substituted with the symbol “:”; (b) after sub-clause (i), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely, – “Provided that if the net distributable cash flow generated by the holdco on its own is negative; the holdco may adjust it against the cash flows received from its underlying SPVs provided that it makes appropriate disclosures in this regard to the unitholders in such form and manner as may be specified by the Board.”; (5) in regulation 21, (a) after sub-regulation (4), the proviso shall be substituted with the following, namely, – “Provided that such full valuation shall be conducted as at the end of the financial year ending March 31st and the valuation report shall be submitted by the manager to the designated stock exchange(s) along with the annual financial results.”; (b) in sub-regulation (5), (i) after the words “conducted by the valuer” and before the words “the half-year ending September”, the word “for” shall be substituted with the words “as at the end of”; (ii) the words “prepared within forty five days from the date of end of such half year” shall be substituted with the words “submitted by the manager to the designated stock exchange(s) along with the quarterly financial results for the quarter ending September 30th.”; (c) in sub-regulation (6), (i) after the words “receipt of such valuation reports”, the symbol “.” shall be substituted with the symbol “:”; (ii) after the words “to the designated stock exchange” and before the words “within fifteen days from”, the words “and unit holders” may be omitted; (d) after sub-regulation (6), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely, – “Provided that the valuation reports specified in sub-regulation (4) and sub-regulation (5) of regulation 21 shall be submitted within the timelines as specified in these sub-regulations.”; (e) in sub-regulation (11), after the words “same to the trustee” and before the words “the Designated Stock Exchange”, the word and symbol “, investor” may be omitted. BABITHA RAYUDU, Executive Director [ADVT.-III/4/Exty./334/2025-26] Footnotes: