After the completion of construction works and your final payment, we will proceed with the preparation of the transfer of property rights to you. The preparation process takes between one and two months.

In the meantime, you are to decide (if you have not done so thus far) whether you will come to Bulgaria to sign the title deed personally or will authorize a third party to obtain property rights on your behalf.

Please, check your passport data put down in your sales contract. If you have changed your passport in the meantime, please communicate this to your Sales Executive, so that the title deed contains your updated passport data.

If you decide to come by yourself, we will be glad to organize your trip and accommodation through the FPI Travel and Tourism agency.

If you decide to authorize a third person to come to the transfer of property rights on your behalf, please, make sure that the power of attorney contains all rights for the authorized person, so that he/she can obtain the property rights, possession over the real estate, as well as perform all other actions related to this process. Certainly, your Sales Executive can assist you in this respect.

Finally, we are to set the date and time for the transfer of ownership to you. Your Sales Executive then will send you a notification stating the exact date and time, the address of the notary public, the documents you need to take with you, the amount of the fees for the transfer of property rights, and the amount of the maintenance fee you owe for the calendar year.

There are several fees payable upon obtaining the property rights over a real estate. Together, they amount to about 3.5% of the sales price.

Santa Marina offers additional services to clients to assist them to fulfill their obligations as owners of real estates in Bulgaria. Owners must first register the property with the tax authorities. To do that, however, they need to be registered as tax payers with the Registry Agency. The apartment itself must be registered with the cadastre office as your property. Then, people are to register themselves as owners of apartments with the electricity supply and water supply companies. The Santa Marina team usually does all this for you against a small fee. Each year, owners are to pay municipal taxes and fees for their real estates. In order for Santa Marina representatives to be able to do that for you, we will also need the respective authorizations.