Morocco Home Purchase Process

Buying a home in Morocco is fairly straight forward and there are no restrictions on foreign national buying land or property in general. Morocco is a popular part of the world for tourists, property & home buyers.

Morocco having a history of home buying & property ownership without deeds it is always best to check title deeds with older property. Older townhouses and land in Morocco tend at present to pose a bite of a problem when it comes to transferring title ownership as it takes much longer to secure deeds for a home & property without deeds. A new built home tends to provide a straight forward home buying ownership opportunity as new deeds and home ownership legal issues can arranged by your lawyer.


General Buying Process

- Viewing trips to Morocco looking at potential property and homes

- Either deal direct with home owners or with real estate agents

- Appoint a good local English speaking local lawyer

- View property developers new built apartments and homes.

- Agree over the final price when home or property buying. Haggle.

- Gain the agreement of the home owner or owners to sell the property and accept the terms

- Preliminary contract is drawn up when both parties agree the change of home ownership that will detail all terms and conditions and pay the first instalment deposit

- Your lawyer will also check to see if there is any outstanding debts on the property, as the new owner would inherit all debts when home buying in Morocco.

- Open a local bank account and deposit the funds you require for the home or property purchase.

- The lawyer will then officially enter the property home buying sale with the government officials when you have paid the outstanding balance.

- Pay all associated fees: Lawyer, Title Deed, registration, Taxes, Real Estate Agents Fee.

Time period from agreeing a home buying or property purchase to registering the property under your ownership can take as little as a week or months depending on if there are any issues that arise through paperwork or planning.


Fees and taxes are charged around the rate of 6.5% for buildings and land at 1% of the total sales price.


Communicating


Morocco in towns & cities have all the modern means of communication such as broadband and dial up internet, fax, telegram, telephones and mobile telephone signals. Rural areas and the desert at times a mobile telephone signal is weak or no service available and you are very advisable to plan all living and travel in mind of health & safety.



Travel


Airport


Several airports in Morocco, although not all service international flights and can be difficult seeing Morocco by plane with specifically chartering a pane yourself privately.


Roads


Major highways from city to city and towns and other minor roads throughout morocco are mostly usable. Driving around some parts of the country requires four wheeled drive vehicle as the road can range from a rough uneven surface, dirt, rocky and sand. Hiring a car is no problem and driving round major towns & cities which are well sign posted. Toll road payments are present in Morocco and are payable in advance if you wish to use a toll road.


Buses


Transportation by bus in Morocco is fairly cheap and in major towns and cities for is set cheap for people to use the bus and afford the fare at the same time. Getting around Morocco is possible by bus and all tourist and a lot of non tourist routes are serviced every day.


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