I gather La Referencia Catastral is equivalent to a UK Land Registry entry. My friend advises obtaining this information prior to purchasing a property as it will show exactly the original building plans of any property. My question is: apart from the official www.catastro.meh.es website (which doesn't seem to be functioning!) how does one obtain this information? From the local Ayuntamiento? Does anyone know the procedure? Thanks.

https://ovc.catastro.meh.es/CYCBienI...ConsultaBI.htm

click the circle to the left of Localización, and put in the address.

working fine here.

Hmmm....... maybe not so easy if you live in the campo with no village, street, or house number (or even in some cases house name).. just tried, thus far without success!

Try www.goolzoom.com and select the catastro option.

You will find your plot and reference number.

That's why the last option is rustica - enter the poligon number and parcela number and, hey presto, there you are.

I'm in the campo and they haven't named the 'dirt track' we live on but using the info above, it worked fine.

Be aware that in this area (and maybe all of Valencia?) they have just renumbered everyone. This means there will be two catastral references for the same property - they are identical. Unfortuantely for me, as part of this exercise they used my NIE but with someone elses details to issue the IBI.

This meant that my bill went to the other person. The town hall looked up the new catastral reference, saw my NIE but also saw the other persons details. I had to provide my residencia before they agreed they had boobed.

Perhaps everyone should check their catasral reference and details in the light of this?

Google Earth has an add-in to do this as well.

I'm not aware of having a poligon or parcela number; even our address varied from document to document. We're a lugar sin numero, from memory..... I did try the rustica, it seemed obvious but without a parcela number I'm stumped! Maybe it's on a piece of paper somewhere but I don't remember such a thing - it's an old molina with a name which has become the generic for about 6 new houses in the immediate (250m or so) vicinity!

Try the link mentioned by Fred, that works very well and will give the parcela number but not the poligono. More importantly it will give the catastral reference.

Woah! Thanks Fred & Snipkoh; scary stuff, shows the pool & everything......

Thank you all for your advice, especially Fred. The goolzoom website did the trick! Kept getting "ovc.catastro.meh.es uses an invalid security certificate" each time I tried the official website.

This is what I love about British Expats - sharing information and advice. Thanks again, guys.

And the patio you laid without a licence. lol

....out of the mouths of babes...


the neighbours know it was all done to shore up a cracking poolhouse.....

You mean the pool house for the unlicensed pool.

It does that to me as well, but you just have to add an exception and you can get in.

Yes, that seems to happen a lot with government (not just in Spain) websites.

As Rachel said, just ignore the warning or create an exception if required.

The Goolzoom site even gives access to the detailed digital maps of Spain.

as long as its only ACTUAL FACTS they share hey