Do You Need a Lawyer To Buy Properties in Greece?
Posted by | Posted in Home Buyers, Real Estate & Properties | Posted on 17-11-2008
While the notaries are the most powerful people so far as buying any property including the properties for sale in Greece, you may not undermine the role of an experienced and efficient lawyer. For people of Greece, property is the premier aspect of life and more than anything else this issue dominates their inter-relationships. Not only family wars, but many other social evils like murder, manslaughter, divorce, atrocities against women and such others are the offspring of disputes relating to properties only.
A beautiful house with a collapsed roof in the island of Peloponese may be very attractive on site. It is altogether different matter creating a title over it. Sometimes the question of inheritance takes a quite complicated turn and it is the lawyer who has the expertise and academic background to examine the intricacies and bring you out of the abyss.
Legalizing a title in Greece has its own problems. Even in the island of Rhodes you have to get papers from the local town hall. The taxes are to be cleared and a no dues certificate is to be obtained. Then you have to obtain the specification, blue prints and value assessment documents from the contract. But when all is done and you arrive before the notary for final signature authorizing the sale and title, there may be last minute interruption by unscrupulous people posing to be co-holders of title and it may spell disaster for your project.
And once again, you look to your lawyer as your rescuer to establish that the title is clean.
