Condominium

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Condominium requirements

When a property is divided in fractional units it is as you well know constituted in horizontal property. If all fractional units resulting from the horizontal property title belong to the same owner, there is no condominium but if, at the same time, each fractional unit belongs to a different owner, we have in fact a condominium. The horizontal property title is the very basis of the condominium and each owner is a “condómino”.

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