Guides
Guides for buyers, renters and home builders
Plain-language checklists for land, building permits, materials, loans and renting in Nepal.
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Land and documents
Buying land: dos and don'ts
Check the land office record, walk the boundaries with a current trace map, confirm the road is on the map, check zoning, plot-size rules and hazards, verify every owner and protect your advance.
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Land and documents
Checks before buying land
What to check before you pay for a plot: the lalpurja, the trace map and boundaries, road access, Guthi and public land, loans and freezes at the land office, minimum plot sizes and the local rules on plotting and building.
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Land and documents
Property registration and taxes
How a land or house sale is registered at the Land Revenue Office: the documents, the registration fee (3% to 5.3% in Bagmati) and its concessions, capital gains tax of 7.5% or 10%, who usually pays, and the costs people forget.
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