According to a report in Ta Nea the government’s ambitious centralized Land Register will be fully digitized and available online by 2020.
The report reveals that perspective buyers will be able to check out details on property through the register’s online platform or smart phone application, simplifying the current procedures. After confirming the legal status of the property in question and a lawyer has conducted an inspection of the digitized deeds, buyers will be able to contact owners directly to negotiate sales.
The public notary will then prepare a digital contract, which will be sent to the seller and buyer via email. The buyer in turn will pay for the property and transaction fees via web baking, while the owner sends the notary the property’s topographic site plan. The final step will be for the notary to send the owner a digital certificate of the new property, along with a map reflecting the sale.
Ahead of the land registry’s digitization, a total of 44 local land registry offices will gradually begin to shut down, starting in January 2015.
