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You can have residential property registers closed again if all residential property rights have been united in your person. The unification may have occurred because you acquired all the condominium rights by legal transaction, succession or forced sale.

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

This requires your application.

When the condominium land registers are closed, a new land register sheet is created for the property. Any encumbrances on all condominium rights with an overall right are continued with the same content on the undivided property. If necessary, individual encumbrances are also transferred. The encumbrances are therefore transferred to the new land register page to be created.

In order to close the land registers of apartments, an application for registration must be made by you or the notary notarising the deed. The closing of the apartment land registers upon application takes place if all required documents have been submitted in due form and there are no obstacles to registration.

• notarized application for registration (which also contains the owner's consent to registration)
• possibly consent of third parties

(as of November 2020)

Fixed fee: EUR 50
The Land Registry charges the fixed fee separately for the cancellation of each condominium.

In addition to the costs for the work of the land registry, costs are also incurred for the work of the notary in accordance with the German Law on Court and Notary Costs (Gerichts- und Notarkostengesetz, GNotKG). Please enquire about the amount of the notary's fees with the notary working in your case. You can also find information and examples of notarial costs on the website of the Federal Chamber of Notaries (for link see further information).

You must apply for registration at the land registry. As a rule, the notary who certified the application for registration will arrange for the registration.

• The documents required for registration are checked by the responsible legal officer at the land registry.
• If documents are incomplete or not in the correct form, the competent Rechtspfleger will inform the notary or you of this in writing and request that the missing documents or the documents in the correct form (to be certified or notarised) be submitted.
• If all the required documents have been submitted, the responsible Rechtspfleger will close the condominium land registers and at the same time create a new land register sheet for the property.
• The notary submitting the application and you will be notified of the entry that has been made by means of the notice of entry.
• The invoice from the land registry will be sent to you for payment of the costs.

The land registry of the district court in whose jurisdiction the property is located is responsible.

• Overview of all district courts in Brandenburg

• § Section 9 of the German Home Ownership Act (WoEigG)
• § Section 4 of the German Condominium Act (WEG)
• § Section 13 of the Land Register Regulations (GBO)
• § Section 19 of the Land Register Regulations (GBO)
• § Section 29 of the Land Register Regulations (GBO)
• Annex 1 No. 14160 to Section 3 (2) GNotKG

• Information on the competent land registry office
• Information on the legal basis
• Information on notary fees

Ministry of Justice Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania