Trade in real property with an unregulated legal status is very limited and sometimes even impossible. Such properties have a lower value, are difficult to sell or even to donate, cannot serve as collateral for loans, are difficult to invest in and sometimes difficult to let. Unregulated legal status is a wealth of various situations: from doubts about the ownership (reprivatization claims, acquisitive prescription), through problems with encumbrances (“old” mortgages, unexercised easements) to difficulties in using the property.

There are also very different routes to regularisation: from court cases to administrative proceedings to contractual solutions.

Regulation of legal status is a broad term. It may refer to the fact that the land and mortgage register contains outdated or inaccurate entries, but also to disputes between owners as to the manner of using common property or as to who should be allocated the property or a part thereof (how to divide the property). These are also administrative cases resulting from invalid nationalisation or expropriation decisions or from requests to return expropriated real estate which was not used for expropriation purposes. These are also situations arising from fortuitous events, such as death.

We provide our clients with comprehensive support in activities aimed at the legal status regulation of real estate. We have conducted all the following types of cases related to the regulation of the legal status of real estates, however some of them can be conducted contractually and in this respect we offer assistance consisting in the negotiation of contracts (settlements) and the preparation of the relevant documents: