Property Law / Real Estate

Filipov & Beleva Law Firm provides legal consultations, protection and assistance in relation to real-estate transactions, as well as procedural representation in property-law disputes.

Real-estate transactions

When conducting real-estate transactions, our team offers:

• Examination and analysis of the property’s status, including verification of the presence or absence of encumbrances on it;
• Assistance in obtaining all necessary documents for carrying out real-estate transactions;
• Preparation of preliminary contracts for the purchase of real estate;
• Drafting of the required documents for establishing limited real rights such as rights of use, building rights, rights to add superstructures or annexes, and servitude rights;
• Preparation of draft notarial deeds for sale, donation, exchange, transfer of real estate against maintenance and care, as well as acquisition of real estate by prescription;
• Representation before a notary at the finalisation of transactions and review of all accompanying documents;
• Legal assistance and support in the registration, renewal and cancellation of mortgages, waivers of rights of use and others;
• Legal consultations and drafting of agreements for the maintenance and management of real estate;
• Legal assistance and support in conducting a factual inspection for acquiring real estate by adverse possession, representation before a notary and before state and municipal authorities to obtain the necessary documents.

Property disputes

In disputes concerning property rights, our team offers:

• Legal assistance and procedural representation in disputes for the protection of ownership, possession or limited real rights (rei vindicatio, negatory actions, possessory claims), as well as claims for improvements to real property, challenges to declaratory notarial deeds and actions for declaring the nullity, voidability or rescission of real-estate sale contracts.
• Legal assistance and representation in proceedings between co-owners—claims for exercising the right of pre-emption of a co-owned share, claims for compensation by a co-owner deprived of use by another co-owner, claims for allocation of the use of a co-owned asset, and others.
• Legal assistance and defence in matters related to condominium ownership—organisation of general meetings, representation in proceedings to annul unlawful resolutions of the condominium general meeting, and others.
• Legal assistance and representation in proceedings seeking to declare preliminary contracts final, as well as defence against such claims.