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Find out who owns a property, what they paid and what is registered against it — by address, erf number or owner name. Then order a copy of the title deed, marriage contract (ANC) or bond document from any of South Africa’s 11 Deeds Offices, emailed to you.
Search by address, erf number or owner name. Results on screen in minutes — and the search fee comes off any document copy you order afterwards.
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Certified copies, bond documents and the full ownership report for estates and owners living abroad.
Self-service searches delivered in minutes. The instant search fee is deducted from a related document copy ordered afterwards.
As a trusted partner of the Deeds Office and a leading provider of property information services, we have been helping South Africans access essential property data for years. Documents are what we do most of: title deeds, marriage contracts and bond documents, retrieved from the registry and emailed to you.
Most people asking for “a copy of my title deed” need a Section 66 copy — a complete, legible reproduction of the registered Deed of Transfer, marked for information purposes. It contains every clause the original does, including the restrictive conditions and servitudes that decide what you may build, subdivide or run from the property.
It is what a municipality wants attached to building plans, what an insurer or a body corporate accepts as proof of ownership, and what replaces the copy you no longer have when the bank is holding the original against a bond. Order a title deed copy.
A certified copy is the same deed, retrieved and then stamped by the Deeds Office registrar as a true copy of the record. The words are identical; the certification is the difference. You need it when the party receiving it will not accept an uncertified document — a court, the Master of the High Court in a deceased estate, or a foreign bank or embassy.
Certification is done by hand at the registry, so it takes weeks where an information copy takes days. If you have been told to get one, check who is asking and what for: a good share of those requests are satisfied by the cheaper, faster option. Compare the two.
An antenuptial contract is registered at a Deeds Office, not at Home Affairs, which is why your marriage certificate does not state the matrimonial property regime and why Home Affairs cannot give you a copy. Executors winding up estates, attorneys handling divorces and spouses applying for credit or emigrating all need the contract itself. We search on the names of both spouses — including the maiden name, which is how older contracts are indexed. Order an ANC copy.
A copy of any kind — information or certified — proves what the registered deed says, but it does not stand in for the original in a transfer. Replacing a lost original is an application under Section 68 of the Deeds Registries Act, made by a conveyancing attorney. Order the copy anyway: your conveyancer needs the deed number and property description before they can start.
If you do not know the erf number, or you are not certain which property is registered at an address, run an instant search first. It returns the owner and the property details on screen in minutes, and the instant search fee is deducted from a document copy ordered afterwards, so checking first costs nothing extra.
All eleven Deeds Offices: Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Pietermaritzburg, Vryburg, King William’s Town, Umtata, Kimberley and Bloemfontein. You do not need to know which one holds the property — that is our job. Recent deeds are held digitally and come back quickly; older ones are on microfilm and have to be retrieved and scanned, which is why turnaround is quoted as a range.
