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1. Properties in Portugal can have several owners; this
happens especially in case of inheritances when properties will often be shared by all the inheritors. There are cases of
properties owned by 15 or more people, but in majority of cases they will be owned by 2 people (a couple, normally).
This is not the case of our properties which have only a legal owner.
2.
In terms of type of property, they can be ‘Urban’ (do not confuse with Urban area has in the Town Hall regulations)
or ‘Rustic’. Each property has a register number; and a property that sometimes looks just as one can actually
have several numbers (registers). Urban numbers always refer to constructions (houses, annexes, ruins, etc…); rustic
numbers refer always to land only, although sometimes parts of land can be incorporated in an Urban number (house register)
stated as garden of a house (in Portuguese ‘Lugradouro’ or ‘Quintal’).
3. In terms of building regulations (you can check the regulations on the local Town Hall),
lands can be urban (type 1, type2 or type3), agricultural, forest, eco-zone, etc… Sometimes a land can have a mix of
different zones. Different zones have different regulations regarding building permit. In Eco-Zones it’s forbidden to
build any new property, unless there is some kind of existent footprint.
4. Sometimes, rules for building in Forest land or using ruins in Eco-zone can be different
in different Town Hall's; this happens because each Town Hall has their own PDM (plan for building regulations and more…).
Although, these are small differences regarding the amount of land needed or how many storey’s you can build, etc…
The general rules apply to all Town Hall’s.
5. Not all houses need habitation license; houses previous to 1951 don’t need this
certificate issued by the Town Hall.
6. Most of the old houses and majority of lands have no kind of floor plans or topographic
sketches showing the borders. The register of properties is made as a description of all the owners, components of the property,
size, borders (North, South, East and West), and other information. Properties are normally walled or fenced around with clear
borders.
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