Superficie is a Romanian real right letting you own the constructions on land owned by someone else, constituted for up to 99 years. For solar projects it is the standard land-securing structure when outright purchase is impractical — which, on sites assembled from dozens of rural owners, is most of the time.
The financing angle is decisive. An agricultural lease (arendă) or ordinary rental is a mere contractual right: it does not bind future owners of the land, cannot anchor the plant's ownership, and cannot be mortgaged. A superficie right, registered in the land book, is a real right: it survives sale of the underlying land, gives the developer registered ownership of the plant, and is what project-finance lenders can actually take security over. This is why banks routinely require superficie, not leases, before financial close — and why the registration, not the notarial deed alone, is the milestone that matters.
The notary drafts the deed; the registrar registers it; but the object of the right — which land, exactly — is defined by cadastral documentation, and that is our work:
The efficient order, learned from real projects: due diligence on all target parcels → pre-agreements with owners → first registrations and rectifications where needed → divisions/mergers to shape the site → superficie deeds and registration → then permitting on a legally coherent site. Compressing or reordering these steps is where projects lose months: every registration depends on the previous one being complete, and OCPI processes files, not intentions. We map the critical path per parcel at the start so the notary appointments land in the right order.
Related rights follow the same logic: easements for the evacuation cable route across third-party land are registered per affected land book, with a servitude plan for each — plan the route survey and the easement deeds together.
On parcels with clean land books, it is the notarial deed plus OCPI's processing time per land book — weeks, not days. On unregistered or defective parcels, add the registration or rectification path first; that is the schedule driver, which is why due diligence up front matters.
Yes — and your right survives the sale and binds the buyer. That is precisely the protection a registered real right gives over any lease.
No — deed terms are for your lawyer and notary. We are the technical side: parcel geometry, land book status, documentation, registration mechanics. In practice we work as one team with your legal advisers, and the projects that go smoothly are the ones where both sides sequence together.
Per parcel: the land book verification, any division or merger documentation with its OCPI reception, the plans identifying the burdened area for the notary's deed, and confirmation of the final registration — plus a status tracker across the portfolio, because on a thirty-parcel site the overview is half the service.
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