Guides
Written here, every fact cited, and dated with when it was last checked. They tell you what to ask; an attorney-at-law should check your own transaction.
- 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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