Property valuation in Jayanagar and JP Nagar

South Bangalore's planned layouts are where the city's older families live: independent houses on development authority plots, many built in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and many now passing to the next generation.

Old layouts, clean titles

Jayanagar, JP Nagar and Banashankari were laid out by the city's development authority, so titles here usually run cleanly from the original allotment. Most houses are A khata. That makes valuation more about the land and the building than about untangling approvals, which is not true in much of newer Bangalore.

The family house, and what comes next

The typical file is a house built by parents on a 30 by 40 or 40 by 60 plot, now owned by children who live elsewhere. The choices are to sell, to divide, or to rebuild as several floors and share them. Each needs a fair value of the plot and the house as they stand.

The 2001 value

A house held since before 1 April 2001 can use its value on that date as the cost when sold, instead of the original allotment price. In these layouts that one change usually cuts the taxable gain sharply. Capital gains valuation in Bangalore explains how the figure is built.

Rebuilding as floors

Many families rebuild an old house as three or four floors. If siblings share them, each floor needs its own value, because ground and top floors rarely match the middle ones. We value each one on its own merits.