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For owners whose tax bill arrives in someone else's name

Land Registry and Cadastre check for your home

Your house is written down in three places, and they disagree

The deed says one thing, the Land Registry another and the Cadastre a third: a different floor area, a pool that does not exist on paper, or the name of the person who sold you the house eight years ago. Nobody warns you, until the day you sell or someone inherits.

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Cadastre, Registry and deed: three texts, one house

Each was written at a different moment and for a different reason. They meet on the day you want to sell.

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€149the full report and the correction fileOrder this option →
€69the written comparison only: deed, Registry and CadastreOrder this option →

What you get

  • The Land Registry extract and the cadastral record, requested and placed side by side.
  • The discrepancy report: surface, boundaries, registered owner, undeclared buildings.
  • Form 901N for the change of owner, prepared from your deed, when the Cadastre lags behind.
  • A note on which discrepancies are harmless and which block a sale or an inheritance.
  • The file ready for the Cadastre, and a written note on what needs a technician and what does not.

Why this matters now

The change of owner at the Cadastre has a TWO-MONTH deadline from the day after the deed, through form 901N, and failing to file it opens the cadastral inspection route set out in the consolidated Cadastre Act. Meanwhile the local property tax bill keeps being issued in the previous owner's name, nobody pays it, and the debt grows with surcharges on a house that is already yours. For ownership, the deed registered at the Land Registry rules; for the tax, the Cadastre rules. That is why both have to be fixed.

What this service is NOT

We are not registrars and we are not surveyors. A surface or boundary discrepancy is corrected with a plan signed by a surveyor or a technical architect, whom you choose and hire yourself, directly. Nor do we register anything at the Land Registry: a notary or the registry itself does that. We measure the difference, say whether it matters, and build the file somebody else signs.

Questions about this service

I bought years ago and never did anything. Is that serious?

It is almost never serious and almost always annoying. Serious arrives at two moments: when selling, because the buyer and their bank read the registry extract; and when inheriting, because the asset must be identified exactly. It is cheaper to fix today than in the month of signing.

If the notary already reported it, why look?

Because notarial reporting works in most cases, not all: an unregistered inheritance, a private document or a wrong cadastral reference fall through. Looking costs less than assuming.

I have an enclosed porch that is not on the papers. What now?

It depends on when it was built and whether the planning infringement has lapsed, and that is said by a technician or a lawyer on your case, not by a web page. What we do is document the real situation, tell you who to talk to and what they will ask for.

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This page was last checked on 4 September 2026

Price

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€69the written comparison only: deed, Registry and CadastreOrder this option →

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