If you want to buy a house, an apartment or a plot of land, you should definitely look at the extract from the land register beforehand. We’ll show you exactly what’s in it.
The most important things at a glance
Everything that happens to Germany’s land is in the land register. This is an official register documenting the land and buildings on it in a particular district. It is important for buyers and sellers of real estate, but also for the bank if it is to grant a building loan.
You can view the land register via the extract from the land register. It reflects the content of a land register page that contains all the important information about a property – for example, who owns it or whether it is mortgaged.
A land register excerpt consists of the inscription, the inventory and the three so-called departments. Using samples, we will show you exactly what a land register extract looks like.
cover sheet
Die inscription is nothing but that cover sheet a land register sheet. It states the responsible district court, the district of the land register, the number of the land register sheet and in the footer the date of the last change and the date of the printout.
Inventory
Im Inventory You will find detailed information about the property. These are also noted at the surveying or cadastral office. These include, for example Dimensions and Lage.
The inventory can contain multiple entries. This is the case when the property consists of several parcels exists that are not directly next to each other. However, a plot of land often coincides with a parcel of land.
Several parcels also form one Hallwayseveral corridors in turn one district. This can be a municipality or a district. Parcels and corridors have their own number in the inventory.
In addition, there may be so-called dominance. These entries meant that the property comes with rights to another property, so-called easements. For example, an owner may have the right to use the second lot as a parking lot or to have power lines run along it.
Department I
Department I lists current and former owner on. It can also be a community of owners. If there are several owners, their percentage shares are given.
In addition, the first section of the land register extract records how you acquired the property – for example through an inheritance, foreclosure sale or a notarial assignment between the old and new owner. If entries are underlined or crossed out, this means that they are no longer valid.
Good to know
There are special forms of land registers for special types of property. These include, for example, housing and part ownership land registers as well as heritable building rights land registers. In Department I there are the apartment and part owners or those entitled to leasehold buildings. Read more about heritable building rights here.
Department II
Department II holds all Junior firmly. These are restrictions that are on property. Examples are:
- housing rights
- Rights of Use
- usufruct rights
- pre-emption rights
- heritable building rights
- notices of conveyance
- Insolvency records
- Execution Notes
- foreclosure notices
Not all plots of land listed in the extract from the land register are necessarily affected by the burden. A note in the column “Consecutive number of the affected plots of land in the inventory” provides information. The term “land” is used synonymously for the individual parcels.
