NRI Property Due Diligence (including Power of Attorney verification)

Non-resident buyers usually see scans, not originals, and often sign through someone who is in India. The review has to test both the property and the authority of the person acting.

We work from copies you can send securely, and we tell you which originals must be inspected before completion. A power of attorney is read for the act it permits, the property it names, and the formalities of execution abroad and use in India. Those formalities differ by state and by where the document was signed.

Laws and records vary by state. Khata, mutation, jamabandi, patta, and municipal extracts are not interchangeable, and the office that holds them changes with the city. The points below describe the work in general. The papers we ask for follow the property’s location, and the report names the source that was actually consulted.

What this covers

• The same title, charge, approval, and dues questions as a domestic purchase, scoped to the property
• Whether the buyer’s status raises a restriction, especially on agricultural land, plantation property, or a farmhouse
• The power of attorney: specific or general, in force or revocable, stamped and adjudicated or not
• Apostille or consular formalities where the document was executed outside India
• Payment trails that do not match the person named in the agreement

Documents we typically need

• Passport and status details sufficient to know which restrictions to check — not a full immigration file
• The power of attorney and proof of its execution, including apostille or consular pages
• Adjudication or stamping receipts, if already done in India
• The property file the attorney or the seller has shared
• Bank trail summaries for amounts already sent, if you want them read against the receipts

What you receive

• Findings on the property, written so a buyer abroad can brief a local lawyer
• A separate note on the power of attorney: what it allows, and what is still open
• Originals that someone trustworthy still needs to see before you pay the balance
• A call timed to your timezone, within the agreed scope

Common red flags

• A general power of attorney used to sell a flat it does not identify
• A document signed abroad with no apostille or consular step, offered for immediate use
• An attorney who is also the broker in the same deal, without that conflict being discussed
• Receipts issued to a name that is neither the buyer nor the attorney
• Pressure to send the balance because “registration dates are scarce”

Questions on this check