Step 16 of 35 · stage 4, sale deed and registration
Drafting the sale deed
Gets the document into a form the Sub-Registrar will accept. Registration of a document that creates, extinguishes, transfers or limits a right in immovable property is COMPULSORY; an unregistered compulsorily-registrable document does not affect the immovable property and is not admissible as evidence.
- Official wording
- Draft the sale deed with the particulars the Registration department requires
- Where you go
- Sub-Registrar and Garvi
- Online or in person
- Offline drafting; the model draft is downloaded online
- What it costs
- No fee published
- How long
- No timing stated
- Record id
- GJ-REG-01, step 16 of 35
Where you go, and how
Parties may draft it themselves (model drafts are published at garvi.gujarat.gov.in) or have it drafted by a document writer
Mode: Offline drafting; the model draft is downloaded online
This office handles 10 of the 35 steps in the register. What else it does, and what it charges.
What to have with you
The source names 10 things the office asks for. Take them all in one go and the visit is usually one visit.
- Full names, addresses and mobile numbers of the parties
- Details of the consideration
- A description by which the property can be identified
- Two photographs of the property being transferred
- A statement of who occupies the property and who occupied it before
- Signature of both parties on EVERY page of the document
- Signatures of two witnesses at the end
- Photograph and thumb impression of buyer and seller on documents transferring immovable property
- Passport-size photograph and left thumb impression of the person presenting the document, on the document
- Document prepared in a language current in the district (Gujarati, Hindi or English); otherwise a true translation and a true copy in a current language must be supplied
Quoted from the prerequisite list in the register. Where the source names a detail rather than a document, such as a survey number, it is listed as the source words it.
The form you fill in
Model draft ('Model draft' menu, ModelDraft.aspx) at garvi.gujarat.gov.in
What it costs
No fee published. This is one of the 18 steps of 35 where no government source we read publishes an amount, so nobody can tell you the figure in advance from an official page.
Here is exactly what was searched, quoted from the register's own limitations list:
No fee is stated for this step in any source examined for this register. The absence is recorded as an empty value rather than filled with a number from somewhere else.
How long it takes
No timing stated. A department that does not publish a service standard cannot be held to one, which is worth knowing before you plan around a date.
No timeline is stated for this step in any source examined for this register. Where a statute prescribes a period it is recorded; where it does not, the value is left empty rather than filled with a turnaround time from an unofficial source.
What to watch out for
The register keeps a note against this step. It is the part most people find out too late, so it is printed in full rather than summarised.
Documents listed as compulsorily registrable include: gift of immovable property; any non-testamentary document creating, extinguishing or transferring a right in immovable property; a lease of immovable property for more than one year or fixing an annual rent; a court order or decree creating, extinguishing, transferring or limiting a right in immovable property; a power of attorney handing over possession; a mortgage; a development agreement; a partnership deed where a partner brings in immovable property; and an adoption deed.
The law behind it
The Registration Act, 1908, sections 17 and 49; Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958
Where this came from, and what comes next
Citation: gARVI_FAQ.pdf page 1 (list of compulsorily registrable documents and the consequences of not registering) and page 2 (details to be given in the document)
Government page: https://garvi.gujarat.gov.in/ModelDraft.aspx
Value date: Undated departmental citizen charter; captured 2026-08-04
Local file read: gARVI_FAQ.pdf pages 1-2 (sections IV and V); root.html (Garvi menu)
Last verified: 4 August 2026
- The step before: 15. Non-agricultural permission
- The step after: 17. Stamp duty on the sale deed
- This stage: The sale deed and registering it
- All 35 steps in one table
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