The cadastre, inside the property matter
Query the cadastral reference and the plot data from the matter itself, and keep it as structured data — not as a PDF somebody once filed in a folder.
What it does
A sale, an inheritance, a lease or a subdivision all begin the same way: somebody needs to know what the Catastro says about the property. Surface area, use, year of construction, boundaries, cadastral ownership, reference.
The usual route is familiar. Open the Catastro's electronic office, search by reference or address, download a PDF, drop it into a shared folder under a filename only its author understands, and re-type the figures that matter into the contract, the engagement letter or the internal note.
The Catastro integration runs the query from inside the matter. You search by cadastral reference or address, Mandato returns the plot or property data, and the result is bound automatically to the property matter you started from.
How it works in Mandato
Every property matter has a cadastral reference field. The moment you fill it in — or search by address and pick the property — Mandato queries the Catastro and pulls the record.
What comes back is not an image or an attachment. It is data. Built surface, use, location, reference. Being data, it gets reused: the firm's templates — engagement letter, deposit contract, written submissions — take it as merge fields instead of asking somebody to copy it across.
The link persists. If the matter changes property, or a second plot joins the same transaction, each keeps its own query and its own history. And because the information lives in the matter rather than on one person's desktop, the colleague who picks the file up in August finds what the colleague who opened it in March left behind.
For a property practice the saving isn't in the lookup, which was always quick, but in everything around it: nobody renames a PDF, nobody re-types a surface area into a contract, nobody discovers at completion that the draft carried the wrong cadastral reference. The data enters once, enters correctly, and stays where it will be held to account.
Mandato queries the Catastro; it does not amend it. Cadastral alterations are still processed outside Mandato, through the usual channels. And a cadastral lookup is not registry information: for that there is the nota simple from the Land Registry, which we also integrate.
Frequently asked questions
Can I search by address, without the cadastral reference?
Yes. The search accepts an address or a cadastral reference, and the chosen property is bound to the matter.
Does the Catastro tell me who owns the property?
The Catastro reflects cadastral ownership, which does not always match registry ownership. For the property's legal position, the source is the Land Registry.
Does the data refresh itself?
A query returns the position at the moment you run it and is date-stamped in the matter. You can re-run it whenever you need; we don't silently overwrite what you already filed.