Valuing Indian Property for a Court Outside India

Courts outside India regularly need Indian property valued: for a divorce in Australia, a financial disclosure in the United States, probate in the UK. We have prepared these reports for decades, in a form a judge who has never seen an Indian document can actually use.

• Working since 1995
• Government approved valuer
• ISO 9001 certified
• Reports in 48 to 72 hours
• Trusted by 800 plus chartered accountants, CPAs and lawyers

Why a normal Indian valuation is not enough

An ordinary Indian report assumes the reader knows what a sub registrar is, what a circle rate means, and what a government approved valuer is. A judge in Melbourne or New Jersey knows none of that, and neither does the other side's lawyer.

So a report intended for a foreign court has to carry its own explanation. Not more opinion, just more context around the same evidence.

What we build into these reports

• Written for a reader outside India. Plain English throughout, with Indian terms explained where they appear rather than assumed.
• Both currencies. The value in rupees, which is the real valuation, and the converted figure in the court's currency, with the exchange rate and the date it was taken.
• Our credentials explained. What the registration is, who issues it, and what it permits. A foreign judge cannot weigh an expert whose qualification means nothing to them.
• Ownership documents described. What each Indian document is and what it proves, with translation where the original is not in English.
• Method stated openly. Which approach was used and why, with the comparable sales named so the other side can verify them.
• A dated, photographed inspection. Somebody physically stood at the property, and the report proves it.
• A declaration of independence. Most foreign courts expect an expert to state that their duty is to the court, not to whoever paid.

The jurisdiction point your lawyer will raise

A foreign court often cannot make a binding order over land in India, because the property sits outside its reach. What it can do is decide what the asset is worth and take that into account when dividing everything else.

That matters for us in a practical way. The valuation frequently has to satisfy two systems at once: the foreign proceeding now, and an Indian process later if anything has to be enforced or transferred here. We write with both readers in mind, and we say so in the report.

Where we have done this

Australian family law matters, United States divorce and disclosure filings, and probate and estate work in several countries. Since 1995 a steady share of our work has come from Indian families who now live somewhere else, and their lawyers.

If your lawyer has a required format, a template affidavit or a specific declaration they need signed, send it. We would rather match their format exactly than hand you a document they have to rework.

Giving evidence

If the matter needs the valuer available for questions, we make ourselves available, including by video across time zones. A report nobody will stand behind is not worth filing, so we sign only what we can defend.