MyDeedSearch – title deed copies and Deeds Office documents online

INTERACTIVE MAP SEARCH

Use our interactive map to quickly and easily locate the property you are looking form. Simply type the address details in the box below. Once the correct address is found you can select it. The map will automatically zoom to the correct location.

Once you are happy with your map location, use the Request Search on this Location button to request a search on this location.

When to search by map instead of by address

A street address is not how the Deeds Office identifies a property — the registry works on the erf (or farm, holding or sectional scheme) number and the township it falls in. Most of the time an address is enough for us to find that. Sometimes it is not:

  • Vacant land and smallholdings, which frequently have no street address at all.
  • Recently developed estates, where the street name has not reached the deeds data yet.
  • Duplicate street names in the same municipality, which is common in South Africa.
  • Consolidated or subdivided erven, where one address now covers several registered properties.

Dropping a pin removes the ambiguity. Place the marker in the centre of the property — not on the road outside it — and we search the erf that sits under that point.

What you get back

A Deeds Office property search on the erf you pinned: the registered owner's name, the property description and extent, the title deed number, the purchase price and date, and any bonds registered against it.

Finding an erf number from a map

You do not need the erf number to order — that is the point of searching by location. If you do want it for your own records, the property search result names the erf and the township, and you can use that number for any later document order such as a copy of the title deed.