Guides and answers

Written to be useful, not to rank

Everything here is the answer we would give you on the phone, written down. If a page ends up selling you something you do not need, we have done it wrong.

USA6 min

Do you have to sell your Indian property when you take US citizenship?

The short answer is no. Here is where the confusion comes from, and what actually does change.

12 Aug 2026

Capital gains8 min

FMV as on 1 April 2001, explained with real numbers

One rule saves Indian families more tax than almost anything else in the code, and most people have never heard of it.

04 Aug 2026

TDS7 min

Why your buyer is holding back a fifth of the sale price

It is calculated on the whole sale price, not your profit. There is a way to fix that, but only before you sell.

28 Jul 2026

Canada5 min

Can property count as proof of funds for Express Entry? No, and here is what does

Plenty of people will sell you a valuation for this. IRCC will not accept it. Save your money.

19 Jul 2026

Inheritance6 min

Selling inherited property in India: whose purchase date actually counts

The clock does not start when you inherited it. It starts when the person you inherited from bought it.

11 Jul 2026

Divorce9 min

Getting your Indian property valued for a divorce in Australia or the UK

What a foreign court needs in the report, and why an ordinary Indian valuation is not enough on its own.

02 Jul 2026

Canada6 min

T1135 and your Indian property: what Canadians get wrong

Cost amount is the phrase that catches people out, especially when the property was inherited.

24 Jun 2026

Basics5 min

Registered valuer, government approved valuer, chartered engineer. Which do you need?

Three phrases that get used loosely, and they do not mean the same thing. Getting it wrong means a rejected report.

15 Jun 2026

Process7 min

How we value a property you have not seen in twenty years

Missing papers, a tenant who will not answer, a cousin with the keys. None of it is unusual, and none of it stops the job.

06 Jun 2026

Basics8 min

What a valuation report must contain to survive a tax officer

Reports get rejected for boring reasons far more often than for wrong numbers.

29 May 2026

Not sure which report you need?

Tell us the situation in your own words. Two minutes on WhatsApp usually settles which report it is, what date it has to be as at, and which papers to dig out first.

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