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# Notary's share for residential buildings (own land)

Help on the Immodio entry item Notary share, residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land).

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You use this category for the **share attributable to the residential building** of the purchase-related **notary costs** on acquiring land that is already developed.

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The **complete** notary invoice for a purchase of developed property is in principle **not** posted here; the costs have to be split instead.
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Where you buy, for example, a let detached house, apartment building or condominium apartment, for tax purposes you acquire a part of each of:

* **the land**
* **the building**

Where applicable, a garage or other assets to be treated independently are added.

Notary costs for the acquisition are in principle part of the incidental acquisition costs. With developed land they therefore have to be allocated to the components acquired according to their economic attribution.

#### **This category is for the residential building share**

This category is used directly in connection with the Immodio category **"Purchase of residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land)"** and is the counterpart to the Immodio category **"Notary share, land"**.

With the **purchase price** itself it already applies that it is split in Immodio between the following two categories:

1. The share for land is posted to the category → **"Purchase of land"**.
2. The residential building share is posted to the category → **"Purchase of residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land)"**.

The same principle now applies to the associated purchase-related **notary costs**:

1. The share of the **notary costs** attributable to **land** is posted to the category → **"Notary share, land"**.
2. The share of the **notary costs** attributable to the **residential building** is posted to the category → **"Notary share, residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land)"**.

#### **Use the same split ratio as for the purchase price**

Where the notary's supply relates generally to the entire property acquisition and cannot be attributed directly to a single component alone, the **economic split already used for the purchase price** should in principle be taken as the basis.

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For splitting a total purchase price for developed land, the Federal Ministry of Finance currently provides the **working aid as at March 2026**. You can find it [**here**](https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Datenportal/Daten/frei-nutzbare-produkte/Anwendungen/Kaufpreisaufteilung-Grundstuecke/Kaufpreisaufteilung-Grundstuecke.html).
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The percentage once determined appropriately is then needed for general incidental acquisition costs such as the **notary costs** as well.

#### **Example: buying an apartment building**

You buy a let apartment building for: **€500,000**

The appropriate split of the purchase price gives:

* **the land: €100,000 = 20%**
* **the residential building: €400,000 = 80%**

For the purchase itself you therefore post:

* **€100,000** to the category → **"Purchase of land"** and
* **€400,000** to the category → **"Purchase of residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land)"**

**Now the notary costs:**

Purchase-related **notary costs** now arise for the purchase of: **€5,000**

These are in principle likewise split in the ratio **20% / 80%**:

* land share: **€5,000 × 20% = €1,000**
* building share: **€5,000 × 80% = €4,000**

You post the **€1,000** for the land share to the category **"Notary share, land"**.

You post the **€4,000** for the building share to the category **"Notary share, residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land)"**.

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The same principle of splitting the costs also applies to the purchase of a **condominium apartment**.
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#### **Important: separate acquisition costs and financing costs**

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Notary fees for **securing a loan** do **not** belong to this residential building share.
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Notary fees for securing a loan are attributed to the financing costs, that is to the **costs of obtaining finance**.

Notary costs for a **land charge or loan security** count as **costs of obtaining finance** and are **not** posted to the category **"Notary share, residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land)"** but to the category **"Costs of obtaining finance (for example valuation, notary and land registry fees)"**.

#### **Why is the residential building share recorded separately?**

The land and the building are treated differently for tax.

The building is in principle subject to wear and tear and can be taken into account through **building depreciation**.

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Land, by contrast, is not subject to wear and tear and is **not** depreciated.
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The incidental acquisition costs therefore also have to be separated accordingly.

The share of the notary costs attributable to the residential building in principle increases the **building's acquisition costs** and thereby the cost basis relevant for the building for tax purposes.

#### **Do not confuse this with undeveloped land**

This category is intended for the **residential building share of an acquisition of developed land**.

Where, by contrast, you actually buy exclusively **undeveloped land**, post the purchase-related notary costs to the category: **"Notary share, undeveloped land".**

With purely undeveloped land there is no building share on acquisition.

No part of the original notary invoice for the land purchase may therefore be posted to **"Notary share, residential buildings, buildings for residential purposes (own land)"** either.

Where you erect a building on the land only later, the original notary costs of the land purchase remain attributed to the **land**.

#### **Do not recover from the tenant**

Notary costs of the property purchase are incidental acquisition costs of the owner and not running operating costs.

The **"Recoverable in the operating cost statement"** switch therefore has to stay **disabled**.
