Property Guide
Before you buy, rent or build
What is near each town, what a purchase costs on top of the price, and what to check before you pay a deposit. Measured from data you can check, not star ratings.
Areas
382 towns across all 25 districts. Each page counts the schools, clinics, shops and banks within two kilometres and names the nearest surveyors, valuers and lawyers.
- Colombo41 areasColombo 1 · Colombo 2 · Colombo 3
- Gampaha26 areasNegombo · Wattala · Ja-Ela
- Kalutara17 areasPanadura · Wadduwa · Kalutara
- Kandy19 areasKandy · Peradeniya · Katugastota
- Matale11 areasMatale · Dambulla · Sigiriya
- Nuwara Eliya17 areasNuwara Eliya · Hatton · Talawakele
- Galle22 areasGalle · Hikkaduwa · Ambalangoda
- Matara16 areasMatara · Weligama · Mirissa
- Hambantota15 areasHambantota · Tangalle · Tissamaharama
- Jaffna18 areasJaffna · Nallur · Chavakachcheri
- Kilinochchi4 areasKilinochchi · Pooneryn · Pallai
- Mannar6 areasMannar · Madhu · Thalaimannar
- Vavuniya5 areasVavuniya · Cheddikulam · Nedunkeni
- Mullaitivu7 areasMullaitivu · Oddusuddan · Puthukudiyiruppu
- Trincomalee10 areasTrincomalee · Kinniya · Muttur
- Batticaloa10 areasBatticaloa · Kalkudah · Valaichchenai
- Ampara16 areasAmpara · Kalmunai · Sainthamaruthu
- Kurunegala21 areasKurunegala · Kuliyapitiya · Polgahawela
- Puttalam16 areasPuttalam · Chilaw · Wennappuwa
- Anuradhapura18 areasAnuradhapura · Mihintale · Medawachchiya
- Polonnaruwa11 areasPolonnaruwa · Medirigiriya · Hingurakgoda
- Badulla15 areasBadulla · Bandarawela · Haputale
- Monaragala11 areasMonaragala · Wellawaya · Buttala
- Ratnapura17 areasRatnapura · Embilipitiya · Balangoda
- Kegalle13 areasKegalle · Mawanella · Rambukkana
Calculators
Work it out before you talk to the bank or the notary.
- Stamp duty & transfer costsWhat a purchase costs on top of the price: duty at 3% and 4%, plus the notary's fee.
- Home loan repaymentsMonthly repayment, total interest and a year-by-year balance at your bank's rate.
- Land unit converterPerches, roods, acres, square feet, square metres and hectares, and price per perch.
- Rental yieldGross and net yield on a property you plan to let, after empty months and costs.
Guides
Original, with every source cited, and checked against the law as it stands.
- LandPerches, roods and acres: how land is measured in Sri LankaLand here is sold by the perch, an old English unit that survives nowhere else in daily use. What a perch is, how it converts, and how to read a per-perch price.
- Costs & taxWhat buying property in Sri Lanka costs on top of the priceStamp duty is 3% on the first Rs. 100,000 and 4% on the rest, and the notary's fee comes on top. How each is worked out, who pays it, and what else to budget for.
- Before you buyThe checks to make before you buy land or a houseTitle, the Land Registry extracts, the survey plan and the local council's certificates: what each one tells you, and why a deed alone does not prove the seller can sell.
- Ownership & lawCan foreigners buy property in Sri Lanka?Not freehold land, with a few exceptions, but an apartment on any floor if it is paid for from abroad, and land on a lease of up to 99 years. What the 2014 Act and its amendments allow.
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