Yes, anyone from any foreign country can acquire an immovable property on the Tunisian territory, and that can be done on the condition of establishing a demand to obtain the authorization of the Governor of the zone from where the good will be acquired..

  The real estate acquisition in Tunisia is made in several stages: signature of the sales agreement, the deposit of the file with the governor (for a foreign buyer), signature of the final act of sale and delivery of the title deed. Besides, the real estate purchase in Tunisia requires the intervention of a lawyer .All these stages will be parts of the contract carried out with a lawyer which will manage the file in its totality.

GENERALITIES

   Foreign persons: For foreign persons, an administrative authorization called " the Governor's Authorization» must be made in the Governorate (territorial collectivity) of the region where the good exists.

- This authorization is also compulsory in case of resale.
- Every foreign person can acquire an immovable property on the condition of obtaining this authorization.

REGULATIONS 

   The Agricultural Grounds cannot be sold to foreigners no matter what is the motive for purchase. Foreigners cannot exploit a farmland even only by means of the rent. If the ground is in the development plan of cities' urbanism, it is for usage of habitation, while, if that same ground does not make part of this development plan, it is agricultural and it is thus impossible for a foreigner to acquire.

PROCEDURE

The foreign buyer is obliged to conclude a sales agreement, a compromise which mentions: all about the immovable property, its price, the advance pricing and all information concerning the identities of both the salesman and the buyer.

- This promise is essential to the deposit of the file, it is necessarily drafted by a lawyer or a solicitor. This document is a proof of payment of the deposit.

- An article of this promise has to plan a clause which allows recovering a part or the entire sum paid during the sales agreement in case of refusal of the Governor.

- The salesman makes a commitment in the sales agreement not to sell his immovable property to another buyer as long as he is not authorized to do it, he is thus going to lose opportunities of sale and so he can ask to keep a defined sum on the deposit.

- This allowance must be fixed during the drafting of the sales agreement; it is generally 10 % of the paid sum.

- No legislation exists about the advance to be paid during the sales agreement, this amount is to be discussed, and oscillates generally between 10 and 30 %.

- Any foreigner has to ask the Bank which will pay the deposit, an index card which will allow repatriating the investment in case of resale.

The sales agreement is thus a very important element, it is important to ask advice to the writer.

CONSTITUTION OF THE CASE

   Once the sales agreement signed and the amount of the deposit paid the foreign buyer (presented by a lawyer) has to submit a complete file in the Governorate including:

• Form to be extracted from the governorate and to be filled.
• Copy of documents proving the identity of the seller as well as the precise name, nationality, address and occupation.
• Copy of documents proving the identity of the buyer with precision of the name, nationality, address and occupation and a copy of the passport.
• Original copy of the sales agreement established by a lawyer or a solicitor duly signed and legalized by the seller and the buyer.
• Certificate of ownership or otherwise, the initial purchase contract of the salesman.
• Full discharge of the Municipal tax.
• Certificate of the Municipality specifying the nature and the use of the good.
• Report of a bailiff solicitor specifying the nature of the good and the name of his/her occupant (the seller owes to propose to the occupant the purchase of the good, being the person who has the legal right of way on the purchase).
• Copy of the topographic plan.
• Copy of the plan of situation.
• Extract of the development plan.
• Architectural plan.
• Plan of division if the good is in co-ownership.
• In case that the buyer is a company: A copy of the statuses as well as the identity of his/her manager.

      If the salesman is foreign, these files are to be added: :

• Copy of the authorization of the Governor if the salesman is foreign.
• Documents of international taxation.

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