Land registration

Deputy Minister of Digital Governance Konstantinos Kyranakis, alongside Stelios Sakaretsios, the president of the “Hellenic Land Registry” public legal entity, filed a criminal complaint with the Supreme Court against a scheme allegedly linked to forgery cases on the islands of Spetses, Hydra, and Agistri.

The Case

It takes around eight months to complete a house purchase in Greece, while in Italy it takes 120 days and in Cyprus only up to four days.

Issuing a property identification number without the competent authorities having been digitized is the biggest problem.

Companies, organizations, and other legal entities will soon be able to carry out property transfers entirely online, saving time and simplifying procedures.

The government, through the Ministry of Digital Governance, is speeding up the transition to a fully digital system for all real estate transactions.

The completion of the National Cadastre is a reform that puts a big brake on a dysfunction of more than just decades but of centuries, Deputy Digital Governance Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis said in an interview released on Friday.

He underlined that "completing the land registry is not just a future promise but a present-day duty.

The bill from the Ministry of Digital Governance titled “Completion of the Land Registry, Simplification of Procedures, Use of Artificial Intelligence, and Provisions for the Operation of the Public Legal Entity ‘Greek Cadastre'” has been approved.

The main provisions relate to a series of interventions, such as:

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted the importance of the national land registry (Cadastral Office) during a speech in Parliament.

He stated, “By 2025, Greece will finally have a complete land registry, an accurate map of public and private property.”

An artificial intelligence application that will reduce the time required for the legal review of contracts submitted to the land registry was presented on Wednesday by the minister of digital governance.

The application, which is currently being piloted, will verify that all the information in a contract is accurate and automatically recommend its approval or rejection.

A modern, clean, modern building that meets the expectations of citizens, which creates good service conditions, respecting the taxpayers’ money is the new Land Registry Office of Thessaly, noted the Kostas Kyranakis, Deputy Minister of Digital Governance, who accompanied the Prime Minister yesterday at the

Aiming to simplify the procedures of property transfer, registration or correction procedures, the Ministry of Digital Governance has submitted a draft law to a two-week public consultation with the objective of having the new Hellenic Cadastre up and running within 2025.

A settlement for the Land Registry comes to resolve a years-old pending issue that has plagued thousands of property owners who are unable to transfer their property.