“Only two units left”, how to check that in ten seconds
Scarcity is the oldest pressure tactic in property. It is also publicly verifiable.
Urgency is the most reliable tool in a sales conversation, and manufactured scarcity is its most common form. Two units left. Price rising Monday. Another buyer viewing this afternoon.
Sometimes all of that is true. For registered projects, you can check rather than guess.
Where the real number lives
Projects registered under RERA file inventory details with the authority, total units, and in many states the sold and unsold position, updated periodically. That filing is a regulatory submission, made under a different set of incentives from the ones operating in a sales office.
Search the project on the relevant state portal and read the inventory disclosure.
What to do with a discrepancy
If the filing shows substantial unsold inventory and you are being told two units remain, you have learned something valuable, not necessarily about the property, but about how information will be presented to you throughout this transaction.
That is worth knowing before you are several instalments in.
The broader point
Urgency is designed to prevent verification, because verification takes time and time dissolves urgency. Any process that requires you to decide before you can check is telling you something about itself. A genuinely good property survives a week of due diligence. It has to, your eventual buyer will apply the same scrutiny.