Informatisation of state real-estate registers

One of the basic tasks of each government is to ensure legal protection to real-estate owners and to lay down conditions for the operation of real-estate and mortgage loan markets. Governments perform these tasks on the basis of the data found in real-estate registers.

Information about land parcels, buildings and public infrastructure are kept in basic state real-estate registers. Due to specific historical reasons and legislative frameworks, every country has set up a unique system of real-estate registers; nevertheless, the fundamental task of all systems is to ensure a unique identification of the real estate, its technical data (location, shape, size, land use, etc.), data on its ownership and encumbrances, data on its value and data on financial charges, connected with it. Real-estate registers must be accurate, regularly maintained, public and easy of access. Up-to-date digital data and information-supported management and maintenance are aims of every modern society and a mirror of a well-organised administration.

Expectations and needs of the users of the real-estate registers are ever higher also due to the processes of the European integration and cross-border capital flow. Investors or banks expect quick and reliable information from the real-estate registers on the real estate in which they want to invest. Informatisation enables all users to use data in a quicker and simpler way – generally by means of the data distribution system on the World Wide Web, which facilitates public access to data. The essential question, connected to the informatisation or modernisation of the existing system of the management, maintenance and use of real-estate data, is therefore no longer: informatisation – yes or no? It is rather – when and how?

OUR WAY OF WORK

As demonstrated above, the informatisation of real-estate registers is a great challenge for every state. The manner of informatisation depends on the characteristics of the existing data and the system with its historical background and tradition. Registration of real estate in Slovenia stems from the Central European tradition with a considerable impact of the socialist period. IGEA has broad experience in informatisation and modernisation of state real-estate registers, since it has participated in every major project of this sort. The real-estate data thus appear in the following kinds of registers:

• Land Cadastre
• Building Cadastre
• Cadastre of Public Infrastructure
• Real Estate Register
• Land Register
• Land use register
• Register of real-estate transactions
• Register of real-estate valuation
• Register of real-estate taxation

Holders of these registers are branch offices of the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, courts of law, national financial authorities and other state agencies, all of which are also IGEA's clients. IGEA has been participating in the modernisation and informatisation of real-estate registers in the states of the former Yugoslavia as well; some of our projects have been co-financed by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and by the European Cohesion Policy.

OUR SERVICES

Our services in the development of the information system of state real-estate registers include, among other things:

• data capturing and processing,
• consulting (conceptualisation of IS, modelling, process engineering, investments in hardware and software, etc.),
• engineering (project management, financial funds investigation, etc.),
• development of web services (planning, encoding, testing, maintenance, etc.),
• training,
• etc.