Generally, people get in touch with the land registration system at least once in a lifetime. Whether it concerns the purchase of a property, the mortgage or the succession, the property registration system is directly or...
Fact Sheets
Description of land registration systems
This is a proposal or guidance for describing the main features of land registration systems in Member States. This fact sheet is intended to give a general overview of the registration systems in each jurisdiction i.e. to...
November 2016
Land Registry Proceeding
This is guidance for describing our LR system as for proceedings; it is a guide containing the main questions for producing a descriptive answer at least for each chapter. This fact sheet is divided into 9...
November 2016
Hidden Charges
Land registers in different countries do not all record the same information. Some are more informative than others, but even the most comprehensive registers may not record every legal fact that someone buying the property...
November 2016
Condominium
This is a proposal or guidance for describing the main features of condominium on apartments of a building and how they are registered. The Condominium fact sheet is about the legal arrangements that apply to a building...
November 2016
European Certificate of Succession (ECS)
The Regulation EU No 650/2012 envisages that the Certificate of Inheritance should constitute a valid document for the recording of succession property in a register of a Member State (recital 18). Following previous...
November 2016
ELRD Reference Information
The ELRA IMOLA project has reached a proof of concept of an ELRD (European Land Register Document) or template for organizing land register information at European level. This project has been based upon the following...
November 2016
Insolvency
Regulation (UE) 2015/848 envisages the registration of opening insolvency proceedings in land registers of another EU Member State, provided that the law of the Member State where the register is kept allows such registration...
May 2017
Avoiding duplicities when opening a new Land Registry File
In the real folio systems, opening a new file means the existence of a new object over which the rights and burdens will be inscribed. The new file can be the result of the division or the joining of previous existing into...
January 2018
Land Registries & Cadastres in Europe
The following information is intended to give a general overview of the registration systems in each jurisdiction. This fact sheet is structured in 2 chapters: