Get Your Exact Document Checklist
Choose what your report is for and see exactly which papers to keep ready. Missing some? Read the note at the bottom, because it is almost never the problem people fear.
If you are missing papers, read this
This is the single most common worry we hear, and it stops people from even starting. So let us deal with it plainly.
Old properties very often have missing papers. A deed from 1974 may simply not exist in the family any more. Property tax receipts get thrown away. Building plans from the sixties were frequently never kept.
None of that stops a valuation. There are other sources.
- Records held at the sub registrar office for your area
- The notified rates for your colony, going back years
- Records of what similar properties nearby actually sold for
- Property tax records held by the municipal body
- What our engineer measures and observes at the property itself
Tell us what you do have and we will tell you honestly whether it is enough. In the great majority of cases it is.
What actually matters most
If you can only find one thing, make it something that establishes ownership and roughly when the property was acquired. That decides whether the 1 April 2001 rule applies to you, which is usually worth far more than any other single fact about your case.
Questions people ask us
- I have nothing at all. Is it hopeless?
Not at all. We have prepared reports where the family had almost no paperwork. It takes more work to assemble the evidence, and we will tell you upfront if it affects the timeline, but it is very rarely impossible.
- Do you need the originals?
No. Clear photographs or scans are fine. Nothing needs to be posted or handed over.
- The property is in my late father's name.
That does not stop the valuation. Transferring it into your name is a separate legal step your lawyer handles, and many families do both at once.