09/12/2007
Home loans are generally guaranteed by a mortgage and so are the preserve, in our legal system, of the notary.
The presence of the notarial profession has become more significant with the recent increase in the number of such contracts, a result of the lower cost of money (though this is still subject to fluctuations) and improvements in living standards that allow an ever greater number of citizens to aspire to the ownership of their home and often of a second home as well. Year after ye