I like to say that just as to identify a person you need an identity card and a social security number, so to identify a property you need a cadastral survey, a land registry survey and a building permit.
The cadastral view frames the property in relation to the fiscal aspect and with parameters assigned to it makes it possible to attribute a yield on which taxes and duties are calculated.
The cadastral situation frames the property, more precisely the various transfers of ownership, the thousandths attributed, easements, encumbrances in general such as mortgages, foreclosures… in short, the history of the property.
Today we focus on the AGIBILITY, i.e. the document that frames the property by presenting it in technical-urban terms.
We deal with the subject in brief and therefore not in depth. It would take pages and pages. Let’s keep it simple enough to understand that it is needed, it is very important, and great attention must be paid to it.
We take the steps together to build our house.
We rely on a technician who draws up the project in accordance with the implementing rules and municipal regulations.
The project is submitted to the municipality and is examined by the relevant offices and technical bodies.
These offices may ask for corrections to ensure compliance with the regulations, prescribe corrections and request works aimed at improving the project itself and the insertion of the building in the urban context, paying attention to its impact on the landscape.
In the end, if it gives a favourable opinion, the house can be built.
Let the work begin.
They say this is a painful period, full of unforeseen events, decisions and important choices, but after so many years, I still see it as one of the most intense and satisfying creative moments for a person… stress aside.
When everything takes shape and the work is completed, the construction manager hands over a series of documents certifying the conformity of what has been done with the regulations in force and with what has been prescribed.
Then we proceed.
A final inspection is carried out for which a certificate is issued, the companies that carried out the installations issue their certificates, the works are sworn in and the official ‘end of works’ is announced.
Each of these documents proves the ‘goodness’ of what has been carried out and contributes to the release of the fateful ‘agibility’.
This is why this document is required by notaries when signing the contract of sale. That is why when you want to sell your house, agencies ask you for this document.
In brief, I would like to explain what happens with condominiums instead.
Just as for the single house, the construction of a condominium requires a similar process and the subsequent issuing of agibility on completion of the work. We will call this original agibility.
Tied to the entire complex, released ‘at the origin’ of its construction.
But it may happen from this moment on that each individual condominium owner decides to make changes in his or her flat. Here too, observing the rules that require the work to be entrusted to a technician and the submission of due documentation also for any cadastral and land registry changes.
If the work concerns the load-bearing structure and involves the addition of drains and services, the permit issued to the condominium will obviously no longer be valid for that flat, and a new permit must be applied for and issued for the flat in question.
The Municipality of Trieste has made available a very useful and fast tool for verifying agibility: Archiep, which allows you to type in the address of the property and check whether it is published on the portal.
It is the result of work in the municipal archives that began a few years ago and requires constant and continuous updating. You will understand the volume of data to be checked and entered, but it is certainly a great step forward in the service to the citizen, allowing you to print a document that has official value.
But the bottom line remains the same: rely on a technician and an agency that can assess the situation of the property in its entirety. The most complicated thing is to check the cadastral correspondence with the tavular and town-planning correspondence.
It is the parties that make the whole. And here the parts must… ‘match’ and for a comparison there is no quick portal, there is the experience of a thinking head.
Giuliana Cuffaro
Partner e AD Gallery Immobiliare