Prior authorisation
No foreign real-estate investment can be executed before a notary without prior administrative authorisation. It is the step that sets the timetable for the whole transaction.
Always, and before the deed
Foreign real-estate investment always requires prior administrative authorisation from the ministry responsible for foreign investment. Without a favourable decision there can be no deed, so the authorisation period is what fixes the signing date.
SourceLlei 5/2025, art. 8.1
Two months, and silence means refusal
The ministry must decide within a maximum of two months, extendable by at most half the initial period — one further month. The clock stops while requested information or documents are outstanding. If the period runs out with no express decision, the authorisation is deemed refused: here silence does not open the door, it closes it.
The €300 fee
Every foreign-investment application incurs a €300 fee, due on filing and regardless of how the application is decided. A single file covering several properties pays it once, which can make one application preferable to several.
SourceLlei 10/2012, additional provision 5 (Llei 3/2024, fifth final provision)
When it is not needed
Transfers by inheritance and those arising from the liquidation of the matrimonial property regime need no prior authorisation and do not count towards the acquisition caps, but they must still be declared.
SourceLlei 5/2025, art. 8.2
This case, calculated
The simulator applies these rules to the buyer's actual profile and returns the amount, the caps and the documents.
Informational content, prepared from the legal texts consulted in July 2026. Rates and thresholds may be changed by the annual budget law.