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Rent vs Buy Calculator: Sri Lanka

Find the year buying beats renting, using your country's real cost of getting in and out: stamp duty, notary fees and agent commission. 15 countries.

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Data sources

  • Sri Lankan stamp duty on a deed of transfer

    Effective 2006-01-01 onward · retrieved 2026-08-30

    Stamp Duty (Special Provisions) Act rates for a deed of transfer of immovable property.

    How we checked these figures

    Published scale: 3% on the first 100,000 rupees and 4% on every additional 100,000 rupees or part thereof.

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