# zaref.dev Deeds Office Fees

> zaref.dev Deeds Office Fees is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Returns current South African Deeds Office transfer and bond registration fee tiers, lodgement and ancillary fees per the officially gazetted schedule, with source citation and freshness metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/deeds-fees?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-deeds-office-fees-aaec9bb3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_B2th49NtK-8BOdBJ-Pdue

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability zaref-dev-deeds-office-fees-aaec9bb3
```

Example prompt: What are the current South African Deeds Office fees — including transfer fee tiers, bond registration fees, and lodgement fees — per the latest gazetted schedule?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need machine-readable, cited South African Deeds Office fee data for conveyancing calculations, property transfer cost estimates, or compliance checks. Prefer this over manual gazette lookups when you need the effective date and freshness flag to confirm data currency. Ideal for South African proptech, legal, or financial applications that must reference official regulatory fee schedules.

## Known failure modes

- Fee schedule not yet updated after a new gazette — freshness flag may indicate stale data
- Network or upstream service unavailability returning a 5xx error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol resulting in 402 response and no data returned
- Malformed or empty response if the underlying data source is unavailable

## How this service works

South African Deeds Office fees (Deeds Office transfer and bond registration fee tiers, lodgement and ancillary fees, per the current gazetted schedule.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing the current gazetted South African Deeds Office fee schedule, including tiered transfer fees, bond registration fee bands, lodgement fees, and ancillary fees, along with the official government gazette source URL, the effective date of the fee schedule, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is current.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "deeds-fees",
  "source_url": "https://www.deeds.gov.za/docs/GG%2054225%20GN%207180%20RE%20FEES.pdf",
  "effective_date": "2026-04-01"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-deeds-office-fees-aaec9bb3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from zaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/zaref.dev/llms.txt)