Property Register Set Up

Ljubljana, 6 June

The Surveying and Mapping Authority has set up a property register, a public record of real estate on Slovenian territory that will be accessible to all users free of charge. The data has been collected through a property census, land registry and other public databases.

The authority will provide web access to the register by the end of this year, and soon afterwards also enable owners to access the property they own with digital certificates.
Franc Ravnihar, the head of the office for properties, told the press in Ljubljana on Friday that the authority would also make it possible for the owners to submit new data or changes concerning their properties over the internet.
Bernarda Berden, who heads the department for the property register, said that the register would be accessible to all individuals and legal entities free of charge, except when used for commerical purposes.
The register contains data on some six million properties in Slovenia; 4.6 million entail only land (even when the building on this land has another owner), 1.1 million are properties entailing the land and building owned by a single owner, while some 250,000 are properties for which the owner of the building is known, while the ownership of the land is unclear.
The register is technical, rather than administrative, which means it will contain data on all properties because the registry of new properties will not depend on administrative procedures.
This will make the maintenance of the register quite cheap and procedures swift. The register is an open system that can be supplemented by various users, according to Ales Seliskar, general manager of the Surveying and Mapping Authority.
The official added that the mass valuation of the properties could be implemented next year.
Asked about property taxation, he said that the incumbent government had decided to put off the introduction of property tax and that this would be a matter for the new government to tackle.
The cost of the property census, launched in 2006, was EUR 10.92m, while an additional EUR 497,000 will be spent on the register.

Property Register Set Up

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