Search types
When doing a property-based search, the information we source from the land registry takes the form of a summary of all entries recorded over the past decades, including all transactions dates and nature, buyers and sellers' names and dob, etc.
For searches made against a person's name, the registry will provide us with a single document listing all properties that are, or were, in the individual's name. From there, we will make additional searches, as regards each property, to retrieve their ownership and transactions records.
When searching French property records, we can combine one or more properties' details with the name of one or more persons whom you believe have an interest in immovable property.
Please note that France's land & property registry is decentralised. There are over 140 local individual registry offices over the Country. It is therefore crucial to ensure that searches are being submitted to the relevant property registry whose jurisdiction covers the property's location, failing which the results will be inaccurate or will incorrectly yield a nil result.
As each search form sent to each registry generates some costs, this also entails that undertaking nationwide real-estate ownership searches, to check is a person or a business owns property in France for example, is costly: The searches should focus on specific geographical areas instead, to ensure the process remains cost-effective.
