The paper chase

[insideright]

This has probably been asked on here countless times with regard to houses and papers but!!!

1/1 is fine does uredni papiri mean the same or is it another slant on dodgy papers ?

[Carol]

I think you are trying to work out how to make sure the paperwork of a property you are buying is in good order?
You need to check two things: the ownership and whether it is legally built. All the questions you have been asking are only about the ownership.
You also need to find out if the property has been standing without any external alteration since 1967. The katastar will tell you what was there. If it is newer then you are looking for the usage permit. Not all properties which should have a usage permit, do have it, even those being sold as new today and buyers are pragmatic. However if it does not have a valid building permit either, then you really should walk away. Many people (sellers and agents) say something has building permission but when you dig deeper, you find out that in fact they only have a location permit, which is the first stage in obtaining building permission. The second stage is generally more expensive and more difficult to do because you need full architects plans (the expensive part) and the neighbours approval (the difficult part).
The usage permit is the equivalent of Britain's building completion certificate (if that means anything to you), except there are some hefty communal taxes to be paid too before the usage permit is issued.
If you are buying a flat/ apartment, then you should also make sure that the flat has its own katastar number, so that it is an independent legal entity rather than just a portion of a bigger property. Properties which do not have this legal separation are increasingly difficult to sell since the banks stopped lending on them.

[zorro]

Or as one Croatian told me recently after he was refused planning permission for no reason other than the local council are waiting for a backhander, "i'm going to start building anyway, and if anyone comes round, i'm going to beat them up."

[valiant]

yeah 3 lions...thats the only way to build something in croatia!!! especially along the coast.
it sounds barbaric and uncivilised but theres no bigger evil than croatias local councils, politicans, urban planners, marina dropulic who has shares in building firms and at the same time razes homes to the ground. hey... i feel like throwing my keyboard through the window when i reminnd myself of how difficult it is to get a permit for anything in this country!!!often impossible!!!
and when buying realestate in croatia you have to check up on many many things....to see if the land actually is the size that it is claimed to be, to see how many owners own the property and if its been suitably and "legally" settled(ownership), see if the road is "legal" , check to see if the property isnt a gaurantee for a credit, check to see if the land includes the 40 olive trees on it, check to see if the land is in a building zone(if youre planning to build) , make sure the neighbours are relatively civilzed(so they dont call some inspection or throw things at you when the bulldozer comes to dig),
i know of some perfectaly honest, normal people who moved here from australia, bought some land near split, other people also bought land from this one owner, and the dude who sold the land later decided that the road he gave to the new owners, was his to do as he wishes now and now the people who own these plots of land cant get to them . they are left with useless land and have to deal with an absolute d..hed idiot of a man.