Close the land register

You can close the housing land registers again if all condominium rights have been united in your person.

You can close the housing land registers again if all condominium rights have been united in your person. The union may have taken place because you have acquired all residential property rights by legal transaction, by inheritance or foreclosure.

You can also undo the division if you have always remained the owner of all residential property rights after a division into residential property because no other owners have joined the community.

This requires your application.

When the condominium land registers are closed, a land register sheet for the property is created again. Any encumbrances of all residential property rights with a universal right continue with the same content on the undivided property. If necessary, individual charges are also covered. The encumbrances are therefore transferred to the new land register sheet to be created.

The land registry office of the district court in whose district the property is located is responsible. The responsible land registry office can be found on the address database of the Germany-wide location and court search on the justice portal North Rhine-Westphalia.

For the closure of the housing land registers, an application for registration must be made by you or the notary notary. The closure of the housing land registers on request takes place if all necessary documents have been submitted in due form and there are no grounds for refusal.

You must apply for registration at the Land Registry. As a rule, the notary who certified the application for registration initiates the registration.

• The documents required for registration are checked by the responsible registrar at the land registry.
• If documents are not complete or in due form, the competent registrar will inform the notary or you in writing and request the submission of the missing documents or the documents (to be certified or certified by a notary) in due form.
• If all the necessary documents are available, the responsible registrar will close the condominium land registers and at the same time create a new land register sheet for the property.
• The successful registration will be made known to the notary submitting the application and to you with the registration notification.
• The invoice of the land registry will be sent to you for payment of the costs.