Deeds Office extracts · Municipal valuation rolls · Street imagery
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Think the city valued your home too high? Check it against your street before you object.
Every metro re-values every few years and opens supplementary rolls in between. An objection only succeeds with market evidence as at the valuation date. The report puts that evidence on one page, works out what you'd save on your rates, and when the gap is real hands you an objection pack ready for the City's form: the roll value, every recent sale on your street or in your scheme, your own transfer, and a plain verdict on whether the gap is worth contesting.
Municipality
Current roll
Values as at
General objection window
What is open now
City of Cape Town
GV2025
1 July 2025
20 Feb to 30 Apr 2026, closed
Supplementary rolls, dates on the City's valuations page
City of Tshwane
GV2025
1 July 2024
Closed 8 May 2026
Supplementary rolls, notices on the valuations portal
City of Ekurhuleni
GV2025
1 July 2024
Closed 2025
Supplementary rolls and section 78 queries
City of Johannesburg
GV2023
1 July 2022
Closed 2023; next general roll 2028
SVR4 open for objections until 30 Nov 2026
eThekwini (Durban)
GV2026
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13 Feb to 31 Mar 2026, closed
Supplementary rolls, notices on the Municipality's valuation roll page
The report links to each city's objection form and portal, and the record keeps re-checking the roll, so a supplementary revaluation shows up as a change. Roll dates, forms and objection steps per city: Cape Town · Johannesburg · Tshwane · Ekurhuleni · Durban · Nelson Mandela Bay.
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Registered description, erf and township
Last transfer year and price
Zoning, where the municipality publishes it
Free SG diagram and the parcel's surveyed boundary
Street and satellite imagery
Rates calculator with every metro's 2026/27 tariff
Ten live pulls an hour; records on file are unlimited
Rates check: the roll value against recent street sales, with a verdict, your monthly rates and the saving an objection could bring
Objection pack: comparable sales and ready-to-paste reasons for the City's form
Every last sale on the street, or every unit in the scheme
Suburb snapshot, record history, imagery, a live link that prints to PDF
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Coverage
National sales history. Municipal values where the city publishes them.
Transfer records come from the Deeds Office and cover the whole country. Valuation rolls are published per municipality, and each one behaves differently.
Municipality
Roll
Erf & extent
Market value
Sectional units
City of Tshwane (Pretoria, Centurion, Akasia)
GV2025
Yes
Yes
Yes
City of Cape Town
GV2025
Yes
Yes
Yes
City of Ekurhuleni (Benoni, Boksburg, Kempton Park)
GV2025
Yes
Yes
Yes
City of Johannesburg
GV2023
Yes
Yes
Yes
Nelson Mandela Bay (Gqeberha, Kariega)
GV2022 + supplementary
Yes
Yes
Yes
eThekwini (Durban)
GV2026
Portal blocks automated access
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Everywhere else
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From the Deeds extract
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Yes
Questions
What people ask before they search
How do I find the erf number of a property?
Type the street address above. The record shows the erf number, portion, township and deeds registry exactly as the Deeds Office has them, free of charge. Sectional units show the scheme name and unit number instead. More on erf numbers.
Can I see what a house sold for?
Yes. Every transfer is registered at the Deeds Office with its price, and the record shows the year and price of the last one, free. Transfers by inheritance, divorce or donation carry no market price. How to read a sold price.
Can I get the SG diagram for free?
Yes. Every record links to the Surveyor-General's own list of diagrams and general plans for that parcel, free; deeds-search sites charge R225 to R235 for the same document. What an SG diagram shows.
What is a municipal valuation?
Each municipality values every property on a general valuation roll every few years, and your rates are a percentage of that value. Cape Town, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni published new rolls in 2025, and eThekwini in 2026. How rates are worked out from it, or work out your monthly rates.
Can I object to my valuation?
Yes, in the window after a general or supplementary roll is published. You need market evidence as at the valuation date. The report puts the roll value next to recent sales on your street, tells you plainly whether the gap is worth contesting, and links to your city's objection form.
Where does the data come from?
Sale prices, erf and township come from the Deeds Office extract published per property. Municipal values come from each city's own valuation roll. Imagery is Google Street View and satellite. Owner names are never collected or shown; here is how to find an owner through the Deeds Office.
How current is it?
A record is pulled live the first time and re-checked every 30 days after that, so a new transfer or a supplementary revaluation shows up as a change in the record's history.
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