They buy a house and discover they don't own it when they want to sell it

Due to a cadastral error dating from the end of the 1940s, the couple does not own their house. Illustration MAXPPP – Bruno Levesque

While they were planning to move to settle on the Belgian border, Lionel and Béatrice were taken aback. Their house, which they intend to sell to carry out their project, is in fact not theirs.

This is a discovery that Béatrice and Lionel did not expect. The couple, living in Sevran, in Seine-Saint-Denis, for almost ten years, plans to sell the house they bought at the time, and on which they did a lot of work. .

This house, which now constitutes a capital gain on resale, for the couple who plan to move, they are in fact not the owners.

An inversion of plots

How is this possible? Because of a cadastral error dating back to the 1940s, as told by Le Parisien, which means that they are in fact owners of the neighboring, bare land. Their neighbor owns the plot on which their house is located.

To settle this incredible case of property inversion, it's the cross and the banner. "We would have to find all the heirs, the notaries who handled this, and redo all the acts", Béatrice laments to BFM. As for At the idea of ​​turning against the notary, a lawyer advises them against it. "It would be more expensive than paying the fees for regularizing property titles".

There remains one solution for the couple who invested in this accommodation specifically with the aim of reselling it, to arrange with the neighbor who owns the other plot affected by the inversion cadastral, who also plans to part with his house.