Expires tomorrow Saturday, November 30 the deadline for submission of declarations to land register, as stated in ERT the Deputy Minister of Digital Governance Konstantinos Kyranakis revealing at the same time that on average each Greek citizen has four property rights.

Wanting to reassure owners who neglected to declare their assets in the land registry and later found out that they appear as “unknown owner”, he stressed that there is an online error detection process.

As the deputy minister said, there will be exceptions only for citizens who have requested a document from the Greek State and have not yet received it.

Kyranakis: New digital platform from January 2025 – When we took over, land registration was at 39%

Specifically, asked about what happens to citizens who forgot to declare their assets in the Land Registry and the properties appear as “unknown owner”, Mr. Kyranakis underlined that this is corrected by the process of the obvious error and if someone has a registered contract of sale in an old mortgage registry, either acceptance of inheritance, or a court decision on the usufructuary. This process is done electronically.

As he pointed out, from January 2025 the simplified digital platform will be opened “Changes». In cases of disputes between owners who have not submitted a declaration to the land registry, the deadline for corrections and lawsuits is until the end of 2026. For cases of usufructuary, he said that fraud attempts are detected by the system, while retrospective checks are now carried out up to 20 years back and there are severe penalties.

The ministry, the minister added, will provide new technological, digital tools to the services to serve citizens faster. The records of the mortgage offices will also be digitized. According to the minister, at the beginning of 2025 we will have satellite images from all over Greece with Greek-owned satellites.

Regarding the issue of land registration, the minister said:

“In July, when we took over last year, land registration was 39% complete. Today we are at 53% and at the end of 2025 our goal is to be at 100%. We are leaving this centuries-old system and going to a digital engraving. Everyone will know about every point of Greece that is demarcated, where the line is and every line that is drawn.”

Regarding the digital map maps.ktimatologio.gr, he said that people can see through this application the progress of the cadastral register. “The areas in blue are finished. They are the so-called real estate operators. In the yellow area, the citizen can still make corrections, it is currently the largest part of the territory”, he emphasized.