Buying Real Estate in Croatia – essential insights for anyone who wants to make informed legal decisions. A series of educational guides designed to assist you.
Buying an apartment “on paper” has become the rule in Croatia, not the exception. Demand exceeds supply, new developments sell out before the foundations are even excavated, and buyers sign pre-contracts for properties that exist only as 3D renderings. In this race, one fact is systematically overlooked: the buyer of an apartment under construction is […]
In Croatian legal practice, pre-prepared “template” preliminary contracts are often encountered that do not take into account all the specific features of an individual legal relationship, i.e. a particular sale and purchase transaction. Therefore, below is an explanation of 10 questions that are considered relevant in practice before and at the time of concluding a
In real estate transactions, absolute legal certainty is an unattainable ideal. Especially considering that certain legal or material defects on a property may appear only months (or years) later. Nevertheless, there are steps that allow a buyer to achieve a higher level of protection. Namely, details that may seem “self-evident” to a buyer (as a