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Sale Deed

Also called: Conveyance deed, Title deed

The registered instrument that actually transfers ownership of immovable property.

What it is

A sale deed is the document executed and registered under the Registration Act, 1908 by which a seller transfers ownership of immovable property to a buyer. Until a sale deed is executed and registered, ownership has not passed — no GPA, sale agreement, or will substitutes for it (per the Suraj Lamp ruling).

Who issues it

Executed by the seller and buyer; registered at the jurisdictional Sub-Registrar's Office (SRO) under the Registration Act, 1908.

Where to obtain

Original is held by the buyer post-registration. A certified copy is available from the registering SRO via the Kaveri online portal (kaverionline.karnataka.gov.in).

Validity

Permanent — establishes title until transferred again via another registered conveyance.

What to check

Document number and registration date
Seller and buyer identification (PAN, address, photograph)
Property schedule (survey number, hissa, extent, boundaries)
Sale consideration and stamp duty paid
Mother-deed reference — the seller's source of title
Section 79A/79B endorsement for agricultural-origin land
Witness signatures and SRO seal

Common red flags on a Sale Deed

Mother-deed reference points to a GPA-only transfer (Suraj Lamp risk)
Stamp duty paid is materially below the guidance value
Property schedule mismatches the latest RTC's survey number
Mother deed predates a known partition that fragmented the parent property

How PropertyRisk handles Sale Deed

PropertyRisk extracts every field from your uploaded Sale Deed using multilingual OCR (English, Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu) and a Karnataka-specific schema for this document type. Each finding cites the exact page and clause it came from in the original document.

On every case where this document is uploaded, PropertyRisk reconciles its contents against the rest of the document chain — sale deeds, RTC, mutation extracts, khata — and against live government portal records to surface inconsistencies a non-expert would miss.

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