Our company has extensive experience in notarial, legal and specialized consulting services, with particular emphasis on the Real Estate Law, in all areas of the Civil law and in particular the Property Law; the Inheritance and Family Law; the Commercial Law and in particular the Company Law; the Civil Procedure Law; the Public Law and in particular the Tax and Planning Law, the Forestry and Agricultural Legislation; the Legislation on the Partition of Property and the National Cadastre, and on the European and International law that is related to the above fields.
REAL ESTATE LAW – PROPERTY LAW
In particular:
Our company has as a long experience in the notarial deeds that cover the entire range of the Real Estate Law and the Property Law. Indicatively, our office undertakes to draft:
Sale and purchase contracts
Parental grants
Gifts inter vivos / causa mortis
Property exchange –partitioning contracts
Mortgage deeds / releases of mortgages
Other deeds related to planning / spatial law [for instance, parking space deeds for buildings, delimitation of boundaries, estate parcelling/ plottage, easement deeds, etc.]
INHERITANCE– FAMILY LAW
Our office also provides comprehensive notarial, legal and consulting services in matters relating to the Inheritance and Family Law. Indicatively, we undertake the following:
Signing public testaments
Signing deeds for the filing / reception of holographic and secret wills and testaments
Publication of wills
Preparing, drafting and filing Inheritance tax returns to the competent Tax Payer’s Office
Signing deeds of acceptance of inheritance
Signing cohabitation agreements between persons regardless of gender
Signing deeds of acknowledgement
Providing consultation services within the context of the inheritance / family law
Drafting and signing other deeds of the inheritance / family law [for instance deeds of consent for medically assisted human reproduction, reports for the unsealing – inventory of inherited estate, safe deposit box inventory, etc.]
COMPANIES LAW – COMMERCIAL LAW
Our company’s Notaries and founders, are certified as “One Stop Services” [O.S.S.]” for setting up companies, and our office has documented experience in drafting notarial deeds of Company transformations and other acts within the Corporate and the Commercial Law. Indicatively, our office undertakes:
Formations / dissolutions of Companies of all legal forms
Amendments / Codifications of the Articles of Associations of companies of all legal forms
Transfers of corporate shares / stocks / participation shares
Merges, conversions, breaking ups of Companies, and in general transformation of businesses
Distributions of corporate assets
Appearance in the general meetings of companies
Let it be noted that our office also undertakes to complete the publication formalities for all corporate contracts.
PARTITIONED PROPERTY – BUILDINGS LAW
The Company of the Notaries Theodore II. Chronis – Maria B. Chronis, with the assistance of their associate lawyers and engineers where required, provides specialized notarial, legal and consulting services within the Partitioned Property Law and the Buildings Law. In particular, our Company and team of associates occasionally undertake to:
Sign deeds for the establishment, amendment, abolition of horizontal/ vertical property
Sign deeds for the establishment, amendment, completion, abolition of the co-owners relations regulation
Study the legal and planning status of real estates with buildings located outside the town plan, in conjunction with legalizing the buildings, signing notarial deeds for the establishment of vertical property and parcelling of buildings
Study and interpret horizontal property deeds and building regulations, based on the theory and the rulings of the Greek Courts regarding co-owner disputes arising from the use of commonly / privately used areas and the construction of buildings on them; the execution of further air rights and the addition of buildings in general, the imputation of upkeep expenses, the use of the parking spaces, of the pilotis space and the flat roof, heating, etc., and providing the relevant consulting services / legal support
TAX LAW – CONSULTING SERVICES FOR LARGE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
Our office, with the assistance of our associate Lawyers and Accountants where appropriate, also provides specialized notarial, legal and consulting services with regard to the management of large real estate and the tax law in general. We closely monitor the ongoing developments in legislation, and provide consultation for both the acquisition and the potential favourable tax treatment regarding the acquisition and maintenance of real estate.
Indicatively, our office undertakes to:
Review the mapping of the real estates of natural and legal persons in the relevant electronic application of the Ministry of Finance [Taxis], by suggesting the correct mapping of all the estates
Calculate the objective and taxable value of the entire real estate of the natural and legal persons and to process scenarios on the reduction of the real estate tax overall, by breaking up the taxable matter
Study cases regarding the spending of previous year capitals/ income criteria in order to acquire real estate
Provide special consulting services within the context of Capital Taxation, Income from Real Estate taxation and Real Estate Taxation
PLANNING LAW – LEGAL TREATMENT OF UNLICENSED CONSTRUCTIONS
Our Company, with the assistance of the associate Lawyers and Engineers where required, provides specialized notarial, legal and consulting services in cases arising from the implementation of the Planning Law and the Law of Construction, indicatively on matters pertaining to spatial – urban design, specific categories of settlements, implementation of urban plans, land use, public and communal spaces, expropriation, building outside the city plan, forest and agricultural legislation, foreshore and beach etc.
Moreover, by closely monitoring the numerous legislative developments observed in the construction law ever since 2010, mostly with Laws 3843 / 2010, 4014/2011, 4030/2011 and 4178/2013, our office has acquired specialized knowledge on the proper legal treatment of illegal construction.
By studying and assessing the legal and planning status of a property, we are able, in cooperation with our customers’ engineers and / or with the assistance of our Company’s associate Lawyers and Engineers, to assist the Engineers in their work at the stage of legalizing the illegal buildings, and after the completion of the relevant procedure, we undertake the drafting of the notarial acts that may be required in order for the property’s legal status to finally comply with its actual / planning status.
MANUFACTURER’S LAW – SPECIALIZED SERVICES FOR TECHNICAL COMPANIES
Our Notarial Company, with the assistance of our associate Lawyers, Accountants and Engineers, where appropriate, also provides specialized notarial, legal and advisory services to Technical – Construction Companies, having documented experience in matters of the Manufacturing Law.
Indicatively, our office undertakes to:
Draft preliminary contracts and contractors’ agreements and the associated instruments for parking spaces in buildings, horizontal / vertical properties and co-owners relations regulation.
Calculate the objective and the taxable value of projects, and the entire real estate of the Technical – Construction companies, and to process contractor agreement termination scenarios in the current stage of the project and / or distribute corporate assets and terminate Technical- Construction Companies on more favourable Capital, Income Tax, VAT and Real Estate Taxation
Provide notarial, legal and consulting services in matters relating to the smooth or uneven process of contractor agreements, to rebuild based on the “antiparochi” (property swap) system and the Manufacturing law and address specific issues of the Technical – Construction Companies, which arise from the application of the Real estate law and the property law, the Planning Law and the Construction Law, from the law of the partitioned property and the Buildings Law, of the Company Law, the Commercial Law and the Tax Law pursuant to those specifically mentioned above.
CADASTRE – DEPARTMENTS OF CONVEYANCES AND MORTGAGES
Our office also undertakes to convey/ register the notarial deeds of transfer to the local Departments of Conveyances and Mortgages / Land Offices throughout the country, and, with the assistance of the associate Lawyers provides specialized legal and consulting services on issues related to the current transfer/conveyance system and to the National Registry such as: examining title acquisitions, filing declarations of entitlements to rights in areas that are getting included in the National Cadastre, identifying real estates in the cadastral maps, and correcting – completing data and statements; reviewing the interim cadastral diagrams and tables during the posting of the cadastral data and filing requests for the correction and/or objection against those, and supporting those before the respective Commissions; checking the posting of forest maps and submitting objections; reviewing the first entries of National Cadastre, correcting any inaccurate first entries and cadastral data or entries indicated as “unknown owner”, by either using the process of manifest error or by launching an action before the Land Registration Tribunal; make registrations of real covenants, court judgements, encumbrances, administrative acts and geometric changes with the assistance of the associate Engineers where necessary; issuing certificates and cadastral / land registry diagrams; supporting in Court the objections against refusals of the Land Registrars and Heads of Cadastral Offices to convey contracts / register deeds of transfer.
SERVICES FOR THIRD-COUNTRY NATIONALS – ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY AND RESIDENCE PERMIT
The Notarial Company Theodore II. Chronis – Maria B. Chronis, with the assistance of the associate Lawyers, Engineers and Accountants where required, provides specialized notarial, legal and consulting services to third-country nationals wishing to acquire real estate in Greece, especially those who wish to obtain a permanent residence permit in Greece, and acquire property in Greece at a price of at least 250,000 Euro.
Inter alia, our agency—with the assistance of experienced and specialized associates—undertakes to handle the entire process up to the preparation of final title deeds and obtaining a residence permit, such as providing appropriate advice for the acquisition of real estate in Greece and entrepreneurial exploitation of the respective investment opportunities; provide legal support during the negotiations; perform the legal and urban checking of the estates, represent investors before the tax authorities [appointing a tax representative, issuing a Tax Payer’s Identification Number to receive key code and passwords in TAXISNET, filing documentation and statements etc. ]; drafting real estate purchase contracts, and convey/register them with the appropriate Department of Conveyances and Mortgages / Land Office; acquire all the documents for a residence permit; represent the investor before any public authority, and in particular before the Aliens and Immigration Bureau of the Decentralized administration, even grant a residence permit in Greece to the investor and the other members of the investor’s family, in application of N.4146 / 2013 and the provisions of N.4251 / 2014 as in force, or any other law.
SERVICES FOR GREEKS ABROAD
Our team also—with the help of experienced and specialized partners—provides specialized notarial, legal and consulting services to Greeks abroad and to expatriates, for their legal cases in Greece. For example, our team undertakes to represent the Greeks of abroad and Greek expatriates before the Greek Courts and Administrative authorities, for instance before the Tax Offices [appointment of tax representative, issuance of tax identification (registration) number to receive key code and passwords in TAXISNET, filing documents and all kinds of statements, tax affairs arrangements, filing tax residence certificate, launch appeals etc.], Ministries, Insurance Funds [pension issues – filing of applications and related documents for retirement], Enlistment offices [recruiting expatriate issues], Town Planning Office, Department of Conveyances and Mortgages / Land Offices, the Appeals Committee of the National Office and Utilities Companies, to settle inheritance and family matters [assistance in drafting wills, drawing up parental grants, donations, distribution to heirs, search real estate assets and deposits in Greece, acceptances and renunciations of inheritance], to translate documents and help with the procedure of granting of Apostille, and by special agreement with our respective partners provide integrated services of property management and execution of all associated obligations [monitoring and payment of tax obligations, communication with tenants, collecting rents, wages, orders to return leased property and pay rents, sale real estate, etc.].
SERVICES TO CITIZENS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Our company also – with the help of experienced and specialized partners – provides specialized notarial, legal and consulting services to EU citizens about their legal cases in Greece. Indicatively our company undertakes to represent them before the Greek Courts and Administrative Authorities, for instance before the Tax Offices [appointment of tax representative, issuance of tax identification (registration) number and reception of key code and passwords in TAXISNET, filing documents and all kinds of statements, etc.], Ministries, and Utilities Companies, settle inheritance and family cases in cooperation with notaries from other countries of the European Union within the European Notarial Network , translate of documents and help with the procedure of granting the Apostille, and provide consulting services on issues that might arise from the application of all the above-mentioned fields of law within the European and international Law.
OTHER DEEDS- SERVICES
Lastly, our office undertake all other deeds and services pertaining to a Notary’s duties.
Indicatively, our office undertakes to draft:
Power of Attorneys and the relevant deeds for their revocation
Affidavits
Acts of Appearance and statement
Acts of filing documents
Preliminary contracts
Lease contracts
Commodate contracts
Loan contracts
Debt acknowledgement/assumption/remission deeds
Right concession deeds
New forms of contracts
Institution establishment deeds
Other standard deeds/acts
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