Land Registry: How and until when you can correct errors

Changes in residential address, identity card or passport, and contact telephone number are currently the main problems faced by the Municipality of Athens. This is followed by the incorrect recording of rights and, in some cases, the non-registration of several rights that have been lost without their owners’ knowledge!

Currently, 544,682 owners and 7,645 legal entities (the State, companies, etc.) who own 726,951 properties and 65,377 plots of land in the country’s largest municipality, which they declared to the Land Registry in 2008 (paying €35 per right) must correct the results of the processing by June 24 in case of error.

The pre-registration process began on Monday. The entire process is carried out electronically on the Internet, and interested parties can check the information concerning them and make corrections. In most cases, citizens are not required to visit the Cadastral Office, which has now moved from Patission to Galatsi at the Olympic Properties.

700 applications
The process ensures that the inconvenience of long queues is avoided. Already, since the day the pre-registration began, 700 applications for data review have been submitted electronically.

However, there are also those who are not familiar with the Internet and prefer to visit the Land Registry Office in person. According to George Dimitriou, coordinator of the Athens land registry project and representative of the contracting consortium, “on average, 300 to 500 property owners visit the Land Registry Office in Galatsi.” As he says, “the turnout is slightly higher than it was when the Cadastral Office for the Municipality of Athens operated in Patission.”

According to George Dimitriou, “50% of those concerned have already been informed about the process by the Land Registry, either by text message or email.” For this reason, he points out, “it is very important that contact details are correct.”

As mentioned above, the entire process can be completed online. Owners must visit the Land Registry website www.ktimatologio.gr and then use the “Electronic Services – e Land Registry” application using their personal taxisnet codes to view the pre-registration details that concern them in order to verify their accuracy.

Persistence
As mentioned above, anyone interested in accessing the Land Registry database must first use their personal taxisnet codes. However, as Giorgos Dimitriou points out, if they enter any of the requested information incorrectly, the system will “lock up” and kick them out. “That’s why users need to be persistent,” he adds.

Review of data
An owner can submit a request for review of the information by simply sending the completed application and accompanying documents to the email address: ad @proanartisi-athina.gr.

It should be clarified that there is a case where an owner does not see the property in question to not see in the electronic pre-publication the rights of his while he had submitted a declaration in 2008. The explanation given by George Dimitriou is that – in the majority of cases – either their rights are not protected identified or the evidence they provided was not were deemed sufficient or have not paid the required fixed fee of 35 euros per right.

It should be noted that property owners who have not submitted a declaration still have the option to submit a late declaration after the pre-publication and until the completion of the cadastral survey in order to avoid unnecessary inconvenience in the future.

What has been lost
” Owners should check everything so they don’t get any surprises when they go to transfer their property to their children or sell it,” says Michalis Kalogiannakis, president of the Panhellenic Association of Agricultural Surveyors and Engineers, speaking to “NEA.” According to him, if an owner finds that not all the rights he declared in 2008 have been declared, then he must submit a late declaration regardless of whether or not he is to blame for the problem.

In the event that an error is found in the co-ownership percentage of the property due to a modification of the constitution, resulting in a change in the co-ownership percentages of the divided property, then the interested party, together with the application form for review of the data, in which they must describe the requested correction, must attach a copy of the amendment to the constitution.

The owners
The participation of owners of real estate in the largest municipality of the country in this the process is extremely important, as with this ensure that the rights that declared will be recorded correctly in the Land Registry and will avoid unnecessary hassle in the future.

Properties that are not declared during the cadastral survey will be recorded in the Initial Registrations “as Unknown Owner” and, if the relevant corrections are not made by the specified dates, they will become the property of the Greek State. To date, more than 170,000 properties have not been declared in the Land Registry, and the process of transferring them to the State has already begun.