Cadastre

Greece may still not have a proper land register, but it is about to obtain a new and oversized public corporation to fulfill that role: the Hellenic Cadaster (OEKT), a body designed to replace the existing National Cadaster and Mapping Agency SA (EKXA, or simply Ktimatologio).

As much as 58 pct of Kosovo's territory - including state, private and "socially" and church-owned real estate - is the property of Serbia.

It belongs to the state, its citizens and institutions, and the state has the original cadastre documentation to prove this, Tanjug is reporting, citing former head of the Kosovo and Metohija Cadastre Slavica Radomirovic.

“Better late than never” is the saying, and “late” in modern Greece is only 180 years or so. The case in point refers to the establishment of a unified and functional land registry (cadastre) in the country.

The head of Greece?s land registry on Tuesday proposed scrapping most of the tenders launched for the completion of the remaining 60 percent of the cadastre amid concerns about a lack of funds.

As of Monday, property owners will be able to access the land registry to view information that was accumulated before 2008, it was announced Friday.

Until now, owners could only see information that had been collected since 2008 even though 333 areas had been registered before then.

Nevertheless, the process of completing Greece’s much-delayed cadaster is proving a slow one.