NRI: Can one owner who is visiting India to sell the property of his own, Is he required to have POA from the co-owner (spouse)?

NRI: Can one owner who is visiting India to sell the property of his own, Is he required to have POA from the co-owner (spouse)?

Yes, Require to have POA from co-owner (spouse)

We have been through the same experience that sub-registrar will not allow the property registration without the presence of actual co-owner.

Get the POA executed from the country where your spouse live now. Its quite simple and easy to execute a POA in foreign country for a property registration in India. Follow the below procedure to execute the POA

  • Prepare a POA draft in word format
  • Print the draft on normal A4 size paper
  • Get the POA attested from Indian consulate or notary public in country of your spouse resident
  • Get the POA adjudicated in District registrar office in India

This completes the procedure to execute POA in foreign country for a property registration in India.


Below is the real example that we faced the similar situation recently

My client Dr Vidya Sagar and his wife lives in UK. Both jointly owns a property in Bangalore. Dr Vidya Sagar and his wife wants to sell the property and we found the buyer for a property.

Dr Vidya Sagar travelled to India for property registration and his wife didn’t come to India due to covid-19 constrain.

The sub-registrar office denied to register the property without the presence of co-owner, so we decided to obtain the POA from his wife, who lives in UK.

We obtained the POA and below POA image for your reference. We registered the property using this POA.


We provide end-to-end assistance to obtain POA. To opt for our service, please write to us pgnproperties@gmail.com or WhatsApp  to +91-97424 79020.

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