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New procedure for obtaining a copy of a property deed after January 15, 2026.

Monday, Dec 29, 2025

The new rules, according to which copies of property deeds will be issued from January 15, 2025, were published in the State Gazette shortly before the Christmas holidays.
The changes to the Registration Regulations aim to limit the issuance of uncertified copies and copy-extracts of deeds entered in the property register.

Any type of copies of property deeds will be issued to: the parties, their direct and indirect successors and assigns, their representatives by law or by authorization (When the proxy is not a person under Art. 32 of the Civil Procedure Code, he must be expressly authorized by a notarized power of attorney); to notaries and their employees; to lawyers, junior lawyers and law associates entered in the register of the relevant bar association; to private bailiffs and their employees; to the bodies of the court, the prosecutor's office and the investigation; to other bodies and persons in the cases provided for by law or in these regulations.
The quality of the applicant will be established by an employee of the Registry Agency.

All others will have to substantiate a legal interest. To this end, they will have to indicate for what purpose and in relation to which person the transcript is requested and describe what their legal interest consists of. “The presence of interest is assessed individually by the registry judge on the basis of the circumstances indicated by the applicant and the documents submitted by him,” the Registry Regulations provide.
It lists four cases in which there is a legal interest in issuing a transcript of a title deed and what documents should be submitted to substantiate it. It is expressly provided that “other” hypotheses are also possible.

Thus, the Registry Regulations provide that:
- a person who is negotiating the acquisition of real estate must submit a “preliminary contract with the alienator, correspondence, other”;
- a person providing intermediary services for the acquisition of real estate justifies his legal interest with a "contract with the service provider, other";
- a tenant or lessee of real estate, as well as a person who intends to conclude a contract for lease or rental of real estate for a period longer than one year, presents a "contract, correspondence, other";
- a legal advisor of a legal entity that, by profession, carries out transactions with real estate, including the establishment of mortgages to secure receivables, attaches to the request for a transcript a "power of attorney, which shows the capacity of the applicant and the rights granted to him, other".

The regulations explicitly provide that the transcript register shall note to whom the transcript was issued and in what capacity, indicating the name and personal identification number.
Another important change, which will not come into effect from January 15, 2026, but three months later, is the possibility for each owner to electronically monitor who has made inquiries about his property. The regulations stipulate that the Registry Agency “provides to persons who have real rights over real estate, specialized services for automated access to information on inquiries made and issued transcripts and transcript-extracts from registered acts, notes or deletions in the registration books or from the person’s accounts”. This will be done for a fee, which must be determined by April 15, 2025.

Source: https://www.dnes.bg