Land registry description (descrição predial)
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The descrição predial is each property’s file at the land registry, with its own number, identifying it physically, economically and for tax purposes.
At the land registry, each property has its own descrição predial, which serves to identify it (Land Registry Code, article 79). The description states a serial number within each parish, whether the property is rural, urban or mixed, its location, a summary of its composition, its area and its (article 82).
The entries follow the description: who acquired the property, which and exist, and so on. The description says 'which property this is'; the entries say 'whose it is and what weighs on it'.
In a building under , the general description of the building lists the unit letters, and each has its own subordinate description.
Example
Illustrative example: a sale notice identifies the property as 'described at the Land Registry under no. 567 of the parish of X, unit B'. With those three elements (parish, number and letter) you can request the for that flat.
In practice, at an auction
The land registry description number appears in the listing. Do not confuse it with the tax register article, which is the Tax Authority's number: the two appear side by side in the notice and identify the same property in different records.
Compare the composition and area in the description with the and with what you find at the viewing. Differences between the two records are common in old buildings or where works were not declared, and correcting them after the purchase falls to the new owner. If the listing says the property 'is not described', check with whoever is running the sale how registration will be done.