One of the most important mandatory and official identifiers of real estate is the cadastral reference. The problem is that this is not so common to know even when you have real estate, and it is when you need it the moment you ask yourself how to know the cadastral reference of a house, of a local, of a ship ...
If it is a piece of information that you have overlooked and you want to know more about what it is, why it is so important and even where you have to go (or visit online) to know that information about your real estate, then we will give you the keys so you can do it easily.
What is the cadastre
The Cadastre can be defined as an administrative record that is part of the Ministry of Finance. It is something like an inventory of rural and urban real estate, in addition to those with special characteristics.
This procedure is "free", although due to this, taxes are paid, and mandatory.
Each of the real estate that is registered has a unique code for them, which is the so-called cadastral reference. This gives a lot of information about the real estate, both basic data such as the location, such as linked files, surface area, what destination the property has, what it is used for, who is the owner, what is the quality of the construction, etc.
What is the cadastral reference
Now that you are more clear about what the Cadastre is, the next step is to know what the cadastral reference is. In this case we refer to a identifier of the real estate. It is official and mandatory and consists of a 20-character alphanumeric code (between numbers and letters).
The cadastral reference is assigned by the cadastre kept by each city council and is a unique identifier, that is, no two real estate can have the same exact alphanumeric code.
Within that code, we can find two types of records, urban and rustic. And each of them has the characters in a certain way since, depending on the type of cadastral reference, they refer to different terms.
For example, in the case that it is an urban cadastral reference you will find that:
- The first seven characters determine whether the property is a farm or a parcel.
- The seven second characters tell us which sheet of the plan it is on.
- In the following four characters we find which is the property within the farm or plot.
- And the last two are just control characters, that is, they are the ones that ensure that the previous 18 characters are correct.
Y in the case of the rustic cadastral reference? The characters determine the following:
- The first two indicate the province in which the property is located.
- The next three locate the municipality in which it is located, within the province.
- A single character is the one that determines which sector or area of land consolidation is the location of the property.
- Another three characters give us the exact location of the polygon.
- The following five give us the information of which is the corresponding parcel within the polygon.
- Of the remaining six, the four following the previous ones offer us information on which are the properties that exist on the plot and, the last two, as happened in the urban cadastral reference, are for control.
How to know the cadastral reference
There are four ways you can get the cadastral reference of a real estate. We talk about all of them.
On the IBI receipt
The IBI is the Real Estate Tax, and the cadastral reference of the property in question must necessarily appear on it. Thus, you would only have to have an IBI receipt at hand to locate that 20-character code to obtain it.
In some cases, this number is also reflected in the deeds of sale or even in the certificates of occupancy.
By Internet
To know the cadastral reference you only have to access the electronic headquarters of the Cadastre. This can be found at sedecatastro.gob.es.
Now, to be able to do it, You need to have an electronic DNI or an electronic certificate. With this certification you can access a lot of information, as well as being able to make statements, find out how a file is going, download the cadastral cartography ...
Once you access it, you only have to give it the type of road and the name of the street, number, block, door, staircase… so that it can find the property and, in data and descriptive and graphic consultation, you will be able to obtain all the information about it.
Of course, As it is a "public" identifier, you can also do a global search without having to log in as a registered user. That is, use the search engine of the Land Registry Office to find your own real estate and find out the cadastral reference. To do this, you have to click on the central part where the map is, which will take you to the property search engine. There you fill in the information it asks for and in seconds you will have the information you need.
By phone
Another option you have to find out which is the cadastral reference of your real estate is by calling the Land Registry Hotline.
The telephones are: 902 37 36 35; 91 387 45 50.
When you call by phone they will ask you for the address of the property and, only if it is a house that is difficult to locate, will they also ask you for the owner's identification data.
In person
If all of the above does not help you, another way to know the cadastral reference is by going to the Cadastre Management which is located at the territorial office of the Autonomous Community, or at the General Directorate of Cadastre and its authorized offices.
Of course, Also in the town hall and the Provincial Council they can inform you of this identifier.
As you can see, knowing the cadastral reference is not difficult, and the best of all is that it can be easily consulted online or through receipts. Did you realize before we told you that you have come across the cadastral reference more times and have overlooked it? Have you tried to see it on the Internet to know the data that you have about the house? Let us know.