Searching by address and moving the pin

Type an address, watch the pin land

Search starts on the map, not a text list. Type an address into the search box and a pin drops where Google thinks it belongs.

Google’s geocode isn’t always exact — sometimes the pin lands on the wrong side of the road, or a few doors off. Drag it to the right spot before you search. The deeds search follows wherever the pin actually sits, not the address you typed, so getting the pin right matters more than getting the spelling exactly right.

Once you have a report: the parcel outline

Once you’ve pulled a report, the property draws its real surveyed parcel outline on the map, taken from the Surveyor-General’s cadastral data rather than a circle guessed around the pin.

That outline is indicative. It comes from a digitised cadastral layer matched to your property by point-in-polygon, kept independent of the title deed itself — the registered extent shown on your report is always the legal figure, whatever the outline’s shape suggests. If an outline looks wrong, use Feedback in the sidebar to tell us. The widget can’t be pre-filled with which property you mean, so include the address or erf number in your message.

Next: start a search from findproperly.co.za/search.