Your starting point
A house purchase brings legal, financial and physical checks together. Give each its own time and appoint independent help where needed.
Property documents need to be read together and matched to the physical property by a competent professional. Use the steps below to organise a decision, not to infer an official approval, a guaranteed price or a universal deadline.
Work through the decision
Identify the records
Ask your adviser which ownership, registration, tax, planning and building documents are relevant.
Check consistency
Have discrepancies in areas, use, title or the physical layout investigated.
Resolve before commitment
Obtain clear advice on outstanding issues and the effect they may have on your decision.
Adapt this to your circumstances
Keep citizenship, current residence, household needs and the location of the home separate in your notes. Ask the responsible authority, institution or qualified professional to confirm any requirement that affects your situation. A checklist used by another household may not apply to yours.
Sources and checks
Justice portal — Casa Pronta — an official starting point for this topic. The relevant page, its scope and effective date must be checked before a consequential decision.
No market prices, eligibility thresholds or legal deadlines have been invented for this guide. Dates in personal planning tools are suggestions or values you supply.
Make it practical
Open the Home Purchase Cost Calculator to keep the information you collect with your own assumptions, notes and next actions.
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