The Court of Auditors’ 5/2025 Audit Report captures the overall progress of the Hellenic Land Registry, a complex project of national importance which, after very challenging times, is now in the completion phase.
The Land Registry is a national infrastructure that has been gradually implemented over three decades, through successive phases, different financial instruments and continuous institutional, legislative and technical adjustments. It was created essentially from scratch, involving the registration of tens of millions of rights, the development of uniform cartographic and information systems and the management of complex property regimes throughout the country.
The current picture of the project differentiatessignificantly from the past, with a clear acceleration and measurable results, which is reflected in the report of the Audit Court that “remarkable progress has been made over the last decade.”
This development reflects the transition of the project from a long period of stagnation to a phase of systematic completion. The report also highlights the inherent difficulties of the project, such as the inadequate registration of Public Property, the fragmentation of property ownership, the extensive lack of title deeds, the lack of comprehensive forest maps and the complexity of combining legal and geospatial data.
Project progress in numberstoday:
- 27,850,000 rights (over 71%) in working Cadastre
- 10,820,000 rights (almost 28%) in uploading phase
- 100% of the country gets digital cadastre by the end of 2026
- 600.000,000 pages have been digitized
- 310,000 registered transactions completed with Ai
- Over 1,000,000 digital transactions to date in the cadastre. Specifically: in 2025 560,000 were submitted and for 2026 to date 185,000
- From 2021 to date, 12 new digital services
The above digital services are used daily by all professionals, citizens and public administration officials involved in the operation of the cadastre.
The transition from paper to digital Cadastre
The Cadastre is moving into a new, digital era.
The transition is not easy, as it comes to homogenize decades-old technologies, applications and data by transferring them to Cloud infrastructures that promise speed, stability, availability and security. This transition will be completed by 06/2026.
The development of electronic services has already changed the way the Land Registry operates, enhancing speed and transparency in transactions.
Today digital capabilities are provided such as:
- Electronic submission of registrable deeds for professionals, citizens and public administration
- Remote search of the cadastral database by professionals and public administration
- Akinita .gov.gr for submission of registrable deeds by notaries
- Research by citizens on their real estate properties through “myktima”.
- archive.ktimatologio.gr for searching in the digitized records of former mortgage offices
- enexyra.ktimatologio.gr Unified Electronic Register of Pledges
- 12n.ktimatologio.gr the digital maintenance and electronic submission of the registrable deeds of the Dodecanese Cadastral Regulation
- Maps.gov.gr the single digital map portal of the state
- Maps.ktimatologio.gr the property on the map with all open cadastral and urban planning data
- Eisigites.ktimatologio.gr the application through which the legal control and registration of a recordable deed is done electronically
- Support.ktimatologio.gr the electronic submission of questions and requests by professionals and citizens
These services are increasingly used by professionals and citizens, reducing the need for physical presence and speeding up procedures.
The digitization of the archives of the 390 Mortgage Offices is completed and involves the digitization of 600,000,000 pages (Transcriptions, Mortgages, Seizures, Claims & Indexes) and their online availability to legally interested parties through the online platform archive.ktimatologio.gr. This is the first complete digital record of the Transcriptions and Mortgages system.
Is there a question of legal certainty?
The answer is given by the Court’s own report:
“11. As a result of the above-mentioned innovations of the National Cadastre, its operation entails multiple benefits: security and clarity of property rights, reduction of litigation, reduction of time and costs of transactions on real estate, facilitation of spatial and urban planning, registration of public property, thus protecting it from encroachment and facilitating its utilization, attraction of investment, acceleration of the expropriation process, protection of the natural environment through the registration of It is not at all inappropriate, therefore, that it is described as “a fundamental tool for the rational organisation and development of the country” See p. 5 of the report of the audit conference.
All in all, the Land Registry is late;
The report also refers to the existence of a large number of pending cases in certain Land Registry offices. Despite the thousands of pending files inherited from the former mortgage offices that entered the Institution as of 1/1/2025 and the thousands of new incoming registrable deeds, daily, in the Land Registry offices, the speed in processing deeds is impressive. As an indication, in 2024 251,000 deeds were closed, in 2025 the processing rate more than doubled and 650,000 deeds were closed, while in the first quarter of 2026 247,000 deeds have already been processed. Specifically, in the major offices in Athens and Thessaloniki, pending transactions have been reduced by 80% and 90% respectively, with a record number of 79,200 transactions completed and certificates issued in March 2026 in the country’s offices.
A significant role in the processing of transactions has been played by legal control through Technical Intelligence, as mentioned in the report.
Despite the pending cases that still exist and the need to further accelerate individual procedures, the overall picture of the project has changed substantially. For the first time, the completion of a decades-long project is clearly on the horizon, with measurable progress, extensive digitisation and enhanced functionality for the benefit of citizens and the economy.
The Hellenic Cadastre continues to prioritise the completion of cadastral registration, the reduction of pending issues and the full development of digital services, strengthening a critical national infrastructure for the country.
