Every Document Your Valuer Will Ask For

What a valuer actually needs from you, by purpose, and what to do when the old papers are gone.

The short list

For most valuations we can start with two things. Something showing you own the property, and something showing roughly when it was acquired. Everything else helps but is not essential to begin.

By purpose

Selling and working out tax. Sale deed, the original purchase deed if you have it, property tax receipts, approved plan if available, bills for major construction, and the sale agreement if the sale has started.

Inherited property. The original purchase deed of the person you inherited from matters most, plus the will or succession document, tax receipts and the mutation record if the transfer has happened.

A bank loan. Title papers, approved plan, tax receipts, and the bank's own format if they gave you one.

A visa file. Title papers for every property, tax receipts, and your visa checklist so we match the required format.

A court matter. Title papers, any order stating what is to be valued and as on which date, and details of tenants or occupants.

Get your exact list from our checklist tool

Missing papers

This stops more people than it should. Old properties very often have gaps. Deeds from the seventies get lost, tax receipts get thrown away, plans from that era were often never kept at all.

We work around it constantly using sub registrar records, historic notified rates, municipal tax records, sale evidence from the area, and what our engineer measures on site.

Tell us what you have. We will tell you honestly whether it is workable, and in the great majority of cases it is.

What we never need

Originals. Clear photographs or scans are enough. Nothing needs to be posted, couriered or handed over, and you should be cautious with anyone who asks you to part with original documents.