have the partial ownership land register closed

You can have fractional ownership land registers closed again if all fractional ownership rights have been united in your person.

You can have partial ownership land registers closed again if all partial ownership rights have become united in your person. The unification may have occurred because you acquired all partial ownership rights by legal transaction, by inheritance, or through foreclosure.

You can also undo the division if, after dividing the property into partial ownership, you have always remained the owner of all partial ownership rights because no other owners have joined the community.

This requires your application.

Upon the closure of the partial ownership land registers, a new land register sheet is created for the property. Any encumbrances of all partial ownership rights with a joint right are continued with identical content on the undivided property. Individual encumbrances are also adopted where applicable. The encumbrances are therefore transferred to the newly created land register sheet.

You must apply for registration with the land registry office. As a rule, the notary who certified the application for registration initiates the registration.

• The documents required for the entry are examined by the responsible judicial officer at the land registry.
• Should documents be incomplete or not in the proper form, the responsible judicial officer will inform the notary or you in writing and request the submission of the still missing documents or the properly formatted documents (to be notarized or certified).
• If all necessary documents are available, the competent judicial officer will close the partial ownership land registers and simultaneously create a new land register sheet for the property.
• The completed registration will be communicated to the notary submitting the application and to you with the registration notice.
• The invoice of the land registry office is being sent to you for payment of the costs.

(As of November 2020)

Fixed fee: EUR 50:
The land registry office levies the fixed fee separately for the cancellation of each partial ownership.

In addition to the fees for the activities of the land registry office, fees according to the Court and Notary Costs Act (GNotKG) are also incurred for the activities of the notary. Please inquire about the amount of the notary fees from the notary acting in your case. Furthermore, you can find information and examples regarding notary fees on the Federal Chamber of Notaries website.