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Title search fee

This works out what a record search at the sub registrar's office costs, which is the cheapest check you can run on a piece of land before you pay for it. Four years on one survey number comes to fifty rupees.

Updated 11 August 2026. Amounts from the registration department's own citizen charter, captured 4 August 2026. That document carries no date.

Search from year

Search to year

Years searched0

First yearRs 20

Each further year at Rs 100

Search fee0

Court fee ticket on Form No. 3Rs 5

Total0

This is the fee for one survey number. Searching several survey numbers, or both Book 1 and Book 2, multiplies accordingly.

The cheapest useful thing you can do before buying land

A record search at the sub registrar's office tells you what has actually been registered against a survey number and when. It is the check that catches a plot sold twice, a mortgage nobody mentioned, or an owner who is not the person in front of you.

It costs almost nothing. Twenty rupees for the first year, ten rupees for every year after that, plus a five rupee court fee ticket on the form. The department's own worked example is a search of one survey number from 2007 to 2010, which is four years: twenty plus ten plus ten plus ten, a search fee of fifty rupees.

How far back to go. The fee is small enough that there is rarely a reason to be economical about it. A thirty year search on one survey number costs three hundred and ten rupees in search fee. Weigh that against the size of the payment you are about to make.

The source for these amounts is the registration department's own citizen charter, which is published without a date on it. That is why every figure here is marked reported rather than confirmed, even though the issuer is official.

The department's own worked example, reproduced

The registration department's own worked example, reproduced. Source: registration department citizen charter on garvi.gujarat.gov.in, captured 4 August 2026. The document carries no date.
Step	Amount
2007, the first year	Rs 20
2008	Rs 10
2009	Rs 10
2010	Rs 10
Search fee for four years	Rs 50
Court fee ticket on Form No. 3	Rs 5

Where this comes from

Rs 20 for the first year, Rs 10 for each subsequent year, and a Rs 5 court fee ticket REPORTED Registration department citizen charter and FAQ on the Garvi portal. The documents themselves carry no date.
Registration department citizen charter and FAQ on the Garvi portal, captured 4 August 2026. The issuer is official but the document carries no date, so this is reported rather than confirmed. Statutory basis: the Registration Act 1908, Part XII, and Bombay Registration Rules code order 474.
The 2007 to 2010 worked example totalling Rs 50 REPORTED Registration department citizen charter and FAQ on the Garvi portal. The documents themselves carry no date.
The department's own example, reproduced exactly.

A search tells you what is registered. It does not tell you whether a project is registered with the regulator. For that, use the registration number check. For the cost of getting copies of what the search finds, see the certified copy page.

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