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Property Reports for Embassies and Foreign Authorities
Expert property valuation and ownership reports for embassy and foreign authority files in Lebanon, prepared to the requesting body's instructions, including translation and legalisation.
Reports for embassies
What the service is
A report on a property — its value, its ownership, or its description — for use in a file submitted to an embassy, a foreign authority, or an administration outside Lebanon.
Reports of this kind are typically required within visa, residency, proof-of-means, inheritance or administrative files.
A sworn expertRecognised by the courts and the banks of Lebanon.
A dated reportA value tied to its valuation date and stated purpose.
Arabic or EnglishReports prepared in the language the recipient requires.
From Lebanon or abroadA file starts with a document review, wherever you are.
Who it is for
Who usually asks for it
Who arrives at this service, and what each of them needs from it.
Visa and residency files
Where the authority asks for proof of means, of ownership, or of value.
Heirs abroad
An inheritance file in Lebanon submitted to a body outside it.
Lawyers and agents
Preparing a file for a foreign authority to a set format.
Administrative files outside Lebanon
An administration asking for a documented description of a property in Lebanon.
When
When you need it
The situations this kind of file is usually asked for in.
- 01
When an authority asks for proof of means. Within a visa or residency file, to a format the authority itself sets.
- 02
When ownership and value are both asked for. It can be a single report covering both, settled after reading the actual wording.
- 03
Within an inheritance file outside Lebanon. Property in Lebanon inside an estate being dealt with in another country.
- 04
When translation or legalisation is required. A separate step, carried out through the competent bodies and built into the timescale and cost.
- 05
When there is a deadline. The deadline is stated at the outset, because it governs the order of the steps.
Property types
The property this covers
Each type carries its own documents and its own approach, settled when the file is reviewed.
Built and unbuilt land
Residential apartments
Houses and villas
Whole buildings
Shops and offices
Warehouses and facilities
Industrial property
Inherited or jointly owned property
Company property
The work
What the work involves
- 01Establishing the purpose
Sale? Inheritance? Court? Bank? The purpose determines the report's scope and form, and is agreed before work starts.
- 02Reviewing documents
Confirming the property's identity, ownership, area and registered charges, and identifying what is missing.
- 03Inspection
Visiting the property and recording what no document shows: actual condition, surroundings, access, current use.
- 04Analysis
Testing the evidence against the market and comparable properties, choosing the approach that fits the property type and the quality of the data.
- 05Reporting
A full record of the property, purpose, sources, methodology, assumptions, and the conclusion with its date.
Documents
Documents required
A reference list, not a precondition. Send what you have; what is missing is identified at review.
The embassy's or authority's instructions
The authority's instructions in their exact wording, not a summary, with the language required and the deadline.
Title extract from the Land Registry
An extract from the Land Registry showing ownership and any registered charges.
Proof of ownership
Whatever establishes the owner's standing in the property, an older document included.
Maps and area statements where relevant
To establish boundaries, area, shape and the relationship to the surrounding roads.
Proof of the owner's identity
Anything else the requesting authority specifies
The outcome
What you receive
Depending on the request:
Value is tied to its valuation date and stated purpose, and can change as the market, the property's condition or its planning status changes.
Tell me the property, the region and why the value is needed.
The file is reviewed first: documents required, scope of work, expected timeframe. No fee is quoted before that.