The cadastral survey is commonly needed for the embarkation of the property boundary. Usually, real estate in terms of land doesn’t have marked boundaries because the current owner doesn’t want to spend money on building the boundaries when they have documents in hand, showing the area of the property. But when it comes to marking the boundary, there can be a chance that it may raise dispute because if you have built the boundary by mistake into your neighbouring property, that may lead to serious complications. The cadastral surveys is conducted for the embarkation of boundaries of the land that needs to be subdivided or a map is needed for the same. But it is also applied when the verification of previous surveys is to be done for the same piece of land. Because in case, of the larger area there can be chances that due to natural reasons the boundaries of the land have been changed. For instance, in the case of natural calamities like floods or earthquakes, there is a certain area in the land that has been gone underwater or changed.
Then cadastral surveying is important to check all the previous references and maps. There are certain situations, where opting for cadastral surveying is the beneficial option.
Housing Society:
Whenever there is a plan to build the housing society, usually the bigger area of the mand is subdividing into smaller units to build houses. In that, the land division will only be possible with help of a cadastral survey. First of all, it has to be the map of the whole property then after the cadastral survey will be done for land division, then the map will be kept in record for the boundaries made for the properties after land division.
Old property:
Sometimes, some land is left for long and the maps in the record seem outdated because there has been a lot of development around the property. The cadastral survey will help to have the updated map of the property and to check that new development encroached the area of the property. Sometimes, the surrounding properties have a land division that may overlap the boundaries of the other properties. The cadastral survey helps to keep the map of the property updated and ensure that there is no encroachment by any neighbouring property.
Financial Aid:
Whenever any bank or financial institution plans to issue the loan and have any land as collateral then they also go cadastral survey. Because they have to ensure that the submitted map or documents of the property, should match the actual property. Otherwise, there is the chance of fraudulent collateral against the loan. Even in the case of buying any property, it is advisable to go for the cadastral survey to have the updated map of the property.