When purchasing a house or an apartment, make sure to thoroughly check the documentation – its extract from the land registry, building permit or other appropriate official construction act, the use permit and its energy certificate When purchasing real property, check the ownership (title) registered in the land registry of the municipal court in which the property is located. Also, ask the property...

If you purchased, inherited or in any other way acquired real estate, you are a real estate transfer tax payerIf you purchased, inherited or in any other way acquired real estate (a building or land) when value-added tax (VAT) is not paid for such an acquisition, you are a real estate transfer tax payer. The tax rate equals three percent of the real estate market value at the moment of its...

Energy certification is a set of actions and procedures that are carried out for the purpose of issuing an energy certificate and includes an energy audit of the building, necessary calculations for reference climate data to show the specific annual required heat energy for heating, specific annual required heat energy for cooling, specific annual delivered energy, specific annual primary energy, specific...

Through the Ministry of Justice and State Geodetic Administration, the Croatian Government initiated in 2003 the Real Property Registration and Cadastre National Program, abbreviated as “Organized Land” under which the Real Property Registration and Cadastre Joint Information System (JIS) was developed. The program has accelerated the real property registration in the cadastral and land registry...