Have you found a property and are just about to sign the contract? Avoid the disillusionment that many new owners face in the form of a lien or easement. A very simple solution is to consult the Land Registry. How to obtain such an extract and how to read it? You will find out in this article.
You will need a land registry extract when you need to prove ownership of the property. These are situations where:
The form you need depends on why you need an extract from the Land Registry. A partial Land Registry extract includes only one or a few properties of the owner’s total immovable property. It will be sufficient for declaring a building, proving you are the owner of a building plot or if you need to prove you are the owner when selling a property.
The full listing then includes all the properties that fall under the owner’s property in a given cadastral area (the so-called full LV). This is an inventory of land and buildings. Such a listing can be several pages long. However, the land register cannot be searched by owner, only by the property.
Measure twice, cut once. That goes for official filings as well. Enrolment in the Land Registry is a formality, but a very important formality that is not to be underestimated. Do you need to register an easement in the Land Registry? Or a lien so you don’t lose the money you borrowed?
Obtaining a cadastral extract is a relatively simple matter. It is possible to:
If you are requesting a listing by title deed, you must know the cadastral area and the title deed number. For an extract by property list, you will need to provide the cadastral area, the parcel number of the property (if it is a plot of land), the building plot (for a building) or the descriptive number and the exact number of the flat in the house.
You can check essential information about your chosen property online in a few minutes. The online application offered directly by the cadastral office is free of charge. The full listing offers all the details. After searching for your chosen building or land on the Land Registry website, you simply select which form of listing you need on the right-hand side of the page.
There is a copy of the cadastral map, information about the land and then the aforementioned partial and full extract from the Land Registry. The electronic version of the online cadastral extract is cheaper than the paper version. The price in this case also depends on the number of pages of the title deed. The extract will then be sent to your e-mail address and can also be downloaded directly from your browser. This version is then equivalent to any other official version and includes all easements and liens. Of course, the land registry also contains the executions.
By consulting the Land Registry you will learn that there is a lien on the property. However, it is only with a full listing that you will find out what the specific lien is.
In the online application, which is built on Google maps, you just need to enter the exact address of the property you are looking for. Katastr 2.0 then displays the cadastral map, through which you can also view the records. Just click on the object and the information about its owner will open in a new window.
We have discussed what can be read from the cadastral map in the previous article.
Especially institutions or persons who frequently need extracts from the Land Register will benefit from remote access. This will make it easy and quick to consult and obtain extracts just as easily. Registration and payment of an administrative fee are required for use. It should be borne in mind that the information obtained in this way is only informative and cannot be used, for example, as a basis for dealing with the authorities or the bank.
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Anyone can apply for an extract from the cadastre for any property. However, the Land Registry cannot be searched by owner.
To find a specific property in the Land Registry, you should know the cadastral area in which the property is located. You can search via the parcel number, building number, housing unit number or the title deed number. This information should be provided by the seller, or it can be traced through the specific address of the property, which you can enter into an internet search engine. The land registry extract should be checked properly, especially when buying a property. Focus should be on the specification of the property, the person of the owner, and also the restrictions on the ownership right. Where to find this and other information is described below.
In the abridged extract from the title deed you will find the basic details of the property. Pay attention to the details of the property owner and the property specification. You may also find restrictions on the title, but you will not know which specific restrictions are involved. You can find the specification of the restrictions on the title in the full title deed extract, the structure of which you will learn about in the following paragraphs of this article. A glance at the Land Registry will tell you a lot, but not everything.
The abbreviation “lv extract from the Land Registry” is often used. The letters “lv” stand for the title deed. A title deed and a land register extract are actually exactly the same thing. This terminology is also used on the ČÚZK website.
In the full extract of the title deed, the following essential parts should then be focused on. The introductory part – the header – gives you the basic details of the property. The most important information is the cadastral area and the number of the title deed. In section A) you will then find information about the ownership of the property, the name, address and birth number of the owner of the property, or the amount of the co-ownership share if the property has more than one owner, or the fact that the property is jointly owned by the spouses.
When reading the extract from the Land Registry (LV title deed), focus your attention on section B, which contains specific information about the property, namely the parcel number, building number, unit number, including the area, type of land and type of use.
Measure twice, cut once. That goes for official filings as well. Enrolment in the Land Registry is a formality, but a very important formality that is not to be underestimated. Do you need to register an easement in the Land Registry? Or a lien so you don’t lose the money you borrowed?
Undoubtedly the most important part for checking the extract from the Land Registry is Section C, which records restrictions on ownership that often affect the price of the property. The most commonly recorded restrictions are easements relating to the property and encumbrances of liens, usually bank liens if the property has been financed through a mortgage loan, but also foreclosure liens if the property owner has a debt to a third party.
If you are buying a property, be sure to ask for the title deed of the property and pay attention to section C, which lists the restrictions on ownership. We’ve covered this more in our article on the Land Registry.
Section D then lists other entries, such as notes or seals. A seal means that the cadastral office is conducting registration proceedings which have not yet been completed. A note may then indicate that court proceedings have been initiated to determine ownership of the property. This section should therefore also be checked properly.
The last section E then shows the title to the property, i.e. how the property was acquired. This section contains a list of the contracts under which the owners registered in the LV acquired the property in question. These may be purchase contracts, gift contracts, inheritance decisions, court decisions, orders of acquiescence in case of auctions, etc.
In the title deed you can also find the history of ownership and previous owners. If you were looking for really ancient information for an old property, you would have to look in the land registers or land books.
You can see the complete form of the extract from the ownership sheet in the following specific example. LV extract from the Land Registry is a very useful document.
We believe that now the land registry listing is no longer a Spanish village for you.
If you are unsure about an item or if you think the entry is incorrect, please contact the relevant Cadastral Office for answers to any questions you may have. If you are dealing with any insertions or changes to the registration and are unsure about the formalities of the documents, we will be happy to help.
The extract from the Land Registry is used to prove ownership and is required, for example, in purchase, sale or construction proceedings. There is a partial listing, covering only some of the owner’s property, and a full listing, which includes all of the owner’s property in a given cadastral area.
It can be obtained in person at the cadastre, from a notary, on CzechPoint or online. The online version is cheaper and available immediately. Regular users can use remote access, but the data obtained is not binding on the authorities.
The title deed contains information about the owner (section A), the specification of the property (section B), restrictions on ownership such as liens and executions (section C), remarks and pending proceedings (section D) and the method of acquisition of the property (section E). When buying a property, it is particularly important to check section C, where any restrictions are listed. If there are discrepancies in the cadastre, it is advisable to contact the competent cadastral office.
Measure twice, cut once. That goes for official filings as well. Enrolment in the Land Registry is a formality, but a very important formality that is not to be underestimated. Do you need to register an easement in the Land Registry? Or a lien so you don’t lose the money you borrowed?
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