Road opens for house sales

A major legislative intervention, which is expected to release tens of thousands of "frozen" home sales, is currently being promoted by the Digital Governance Ministry.

The aim is to provide a definitive solution to surface discrepancies between horizontal properties and the permits that accompany them, which make the issuing of the electronic identity of a building impossible.

According to the regulation that will be included in a bill on the land registry, to be submitted in September by the ministry and the competent deputy minister, Kostas Kyranakis, owners will now be given the possibility to unilaterally modify the surfaces, without any limit to the deviation, but provided that the rights of the other owners of the building in establishing horizontal ownership are not affected.

That formula is expected to resolve one of the main problems that has arisen...