Croatian land - Plot sizes

[AnnaW]

This site seems really helpful! I hope you can help me?

I'm thinking of buying some building land and as it is bigger than we need for our own use I'm wondering whether we could build another house on it. I understand that there is a minimum plot size allowed.
Can you tell me what the minimum plot size is ?

Thanks

[Peter Ellis]

Hi Anna

Minimum plot sizes vary from commune to commune. The minimums also tend to get larger the nearer the sea that you are. Where is your land and we may be able to advise?

Land sizes seem to have been coming up a lot recently and do need watching. We have come across a number of instances where the minimum plot size has been increased and has caught out people who have purchased minimum sized plots of building land a year or so ago from developers, who, themselves, had subdivided a larger plot, only to find that, as the minimum in their area has increased before they got their permissions, they are all now in possession of plots of land that would no longer be eligible for a building permit.
Their only chance is if they can persuade a neighbour to sell them their plot in order to amalgamate them and get a sufficiently large plot. The solution then is to make a project to build some sort of semi-detached house, possibly linked by two garages, as this will be regarded as a single building, but by this method enable two houses to still be built each on the previous minimum size.
It obviously requires a lot of co-operation between two adjacent plot owners.
Where it has really caught out some developers is where a developer has done what is quite common here and commenced building prior to getting all permissions through, anticipating that they would all be in place by the time the buildings are finished. If the minimum plot size changes before the permissions are through, he is caught and could well have to demolish the building.
Beware of buying offplan on plots that are close to current minimums for the area, unless they have been revised recently.

Hope this helps.