Virginia § 55.1-2005 - Apartments subject to individual titles and interests; recording; transfer of garage unit
Full text of Virginia Code of Virginia § 55.1-2005 — Apartments subject to individual titles and interests; recording; transfer of garage unit, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 55.1-2005. Apartments subject to individual titles and interests; recording; transfer of garage unit
Once the property is established as a horizontal property regime, an apartment in the building is a separate parcel of real property and may be individually conveyed and encumbered, independent of the other apartments in the building, and the corresponding individual titles and interests shall be recordable. A garage unit sold to a co-owner as a limited common element may be sold or transferred by him to another co-owner in the same horizontal property regime independently of and separately from his apartment.
1962, c. 627, § 4, § 55-79.4; 1966, c. 683; 1973, c. 375; 2019, c. 712.
Source: official Virginia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 55.1-2005 ("Apartments subject to individual titles and interests; recording; transfer of garage unit") is part of the Code of Virginia, the codified statutory law of Virginia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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