St Lucia Property Title Searches & the Land Registry
St Lucia Property Title searches are performed at the Land Registry in Castries and should be done by your lawyer or yourself. Some basic checks are needed in St Lucia when purchasing property in St Lucia:
Land and title searches checklist with enable you to know the following:
- Does the vendor have a right to sell the property?
- Make sure the description of the property matches the paperwork? i.e. Size, grounds etc. This is very important, as building not here may not have planning permission.
St Lucia Land Registry
- Does anyone else have a legal interest in the property?
- Is the property free from unpaid loans and mortgages?
- Check who is the legal owner. In order for the sale to take place all owners must agree to the sale.
- In St Lucia, debts stay with the land or company and not with the individual. So when performing title searches it is important to be sure that monies from the proceeds of the sale go to pay any loans or mortgage outstanding on the property.
Land and title searches are complex area and banks in St Lucia require that it is done before granting out loans.
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St Lucia Property Title Searches
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St Lucia Property Title searches are performed at the Land Registry in Castries and can be done by a lawyer or yourself. This is needed by banks in St Lucia as a prerequiite for a mortgage..
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Micha
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Realty St. Lucia
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