Property
A unified cadastre with restrictions on farmland for foreigners
Real property rights are recorded in the cadastre maintained by the Public Services Agency, and registration is required for the right to arise. Foreign citizens and companies may not acquire agricultural or forest land and must dispose of any inherited plot.
Key rules
- Rights in real property arise on registration in the cadastre.
- Transfers require an authenticated contract, normally notarial.
- Foreigners may not own agricultural or forest land and must alienate inherited plots within a year.
- Buildings and the land beneath them are registered as separate cadastral objects.
Governing law
- Civil Code (2002)Book Two on rights in rem, recodified 2019.
- Law No. 1543/1998 on cadastre of immovable property (1998)
- Land Code (1991)Law 828/1991.
In practice
Property in Transnistria cannot be reliably registered or transferred under Moldovan law, and any transaction there is outside the cadastre and effectively unenforceable in Chişinău.