Buyer's Guide
How to Buy Your First Apartment in Nepal: A Complete Beginner’s Guide
A beginner’s guide to buy your first apartment in Nepal: budget, home loan and 80% LTV rules, registration fees, ownership certificate, and common area costs.
How to Buy a House With a Home Loan in Nepal: Step-by-Step Process
Learn how to buy a house with a home loan in Nepal: step-by-step process, 2026 LTV rules, interest rates, documents, and fees for first-time buyers.
Guthi Land in Nepal: What Every Buyer Must Check Before Purchasing
Most Guthi land in Nepal cannot be legally sold. Learn the Guthi land types, the buying risks, and the exact checks to run at the Malpot before you pay.
Home Inspection Checklist: What to Check Before Buying a House in Nepal
Home inspection checklist for Nepal: check structure, cracks, damp, wiring, water supply, and the lalpurja and building permit before you buy a house.
Property Inheritance in Nepal: How to Transfer Property After the Owner’s Death
When a parent or relative dies and leaves land or a house, the property does not automatically become yours in the government’s eyes. It stays registered under the dead person’s name until you complete a formal transfer. In Nepal, that transfer is called namsari, and it is the step that turns you from “the family […]
How to Buy Land in Nepal: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Buying land in Nepal comes down to one thing: getting a clean Lalpurja in your name at the District Land Revenue Office. Everything else, the search, the price talk, the paperwork, exists to get you safely to that moment. Here is the short version. You find a plot and verify the ownership and papers at […]
Earthquake-Safe Housing in Nepal: What to Look for When Buying
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake left an indelible mark on Nepal’s consciousness about building safety. More than a decade later, earthquake resilience has become one of the most important—and yet still frequently overlooked—factors in property purchasing decisions. Nepal sits on the boundary of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, making it one of the world’s most […]
How to Verify Property Ownership in Nepal: Due Diligence Guide
Property fraud in Nepal is not hypothetical—it happens regularly, and it devastates buyers who skip or rush the verification process. The good news: Nepal’s land records system, while imperfect, provides all the tools necessary to verify ownership thoroughly if you know where to look and what to check. This step-by-step guide covers every verification step […]
Home Loan vs. Cash Purchase in Nepal: Pros, Cons & Calculations
If you have the resources to consider buying property in Nepal outright—congratulations, you are in a fortunate financial position. But “can I pay cash?” and “should I pay cash?” are very different questions. In Nepal’s current market environment, the decision between taking a home loan and paying cash is genuinely nuanced, with meaningful financial arguments […]
Understanding Lalpurja (Land Ownership Certificate) in Nepal
In Nepal’s property market, one word separates legitimate ownership from disaster: Lalpurja. This small, often faded document—Nepal’s official land ownership certificate—is the foundation of every property transaction in the country. Buy property without properly verifying the Lalpurja, and you risk losing everything you paid. Understand it fully, and you have the most powerful tool in […]
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