Bahrain

Registering Property in

Bahrain

Listed below is a detailed summary of the steps, time and cost involved in registering property, assuming a standardized case of an entrepreneur who wants to purchase land and a building that is already registered and free of title dispute.

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  • Standard Property Transfer

  • Property Value: BHD 384,930
  • City: Manama

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Notarize the sale agreement/contract with the notary public at the Survey & Land Registration Bureau.

The Seller and Purchaser of the Property must appear at the notary from the Ministry of Justice (sitting at the Survey and Land registration Bureau) to sign the Sale of Purchase Agreement. The original title deed evidencing that the Seller has ownership of the property must be shown to the notary at the time of signing the Sale of Purchase Agreement.

Agency: Ministry of Justice notary (sitting at the Survey and Land registration Bureau) 		1 day BHD 15 ( for 4 notarised copies of the Sale of Purchase Agreement)
2 Register the title deed with the purchaser's name at the Survey & Land Registration Bureau

After the Sale of Property Agreement has been notarized, the following documents are submitted to the Survey and Land Registration Bureau:
- 1 notarized Sale of Property Agreement;
- Commercial Registration Certificate of the Purchaser;
- Memorandum of Association and amendments (if any)
- Payment to the Survey and Land Registration Bureau.

New fee schedule as of December 2009,persuant to Resolution No. 64 of the year 2009, issued by the Council of Ministers has changed the fees to register a property from 0.9% of the property value to the following fee schedule. A discount of 10% of the registration fee is applicable to applications that are submitted within 60 days of the date of execution of the sale agreement.



Agency: Survey & Land Registration Bureau 		30 days Registration fees according to the following fee schedule (10% discount of registration fee for applications submitted within 60 days of execution of sale agreement): Property value less or up to BD 70,000 : 1.5% of the property value (or 1.35% after disc
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