To the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. George Stathakis
The Deputy Minister of Environment, Mr. Giorgos Dimaras
The President of the “HELENIC REAL ESTATE » Professor Ms. Byron Nakos.
In there “>Athens, 15.4.2019
TOPIC: Seven proposals for the timely and efficient preparation of the National Land Registry. strong>
Dear Sirs
As is well known, during this period the process of collecting property declarations is being carried out throughout the countryside, a characteristic feature of which is unfortunately the dramatic ignorance, reluctance or even fear of the owners to come forward to declare their property rights.
To deal with this phenomenon, so that the Land Registry can be completed soon, without legal battles that will last for generations between hundreds of thousands of owners and the State, but also for the best utilization of the hundreds of thousands of undeclared properties, we bring to your attention our following proposals, and please invite us to a direct dialogue to develop them specifically for you:
- Immediate implementation of information campaign at national level, through Press, TV, Radio & internet, for the need and procedure for declaring the property rights of all citizens.
- Unitary extension of all deadlines for submitting declarations at land registry offices until September 30, 2019, so as to cover not only domestic residents, but also expatriate owners, foreign residents, who visit our country during the summer season. Extensions of a few days are not enough, they are of no use, and no one can follow them anymore!
- Exemption of farmers for the additional two rights on agricultural properties in the same land registry company, and not per pre-Kapodistrian municipality, as the relevant provision has been illegally interpreted!
- Immediate resolution of the ownership problem of the country’s off-plan real estate, establishing for these real estates also a regulation that the State cannot claim property rights over off-plan real estate that private individuals have been holding in good faith for decades with legal titles and with similar conditions to those set by Article 4 of Law 3127/2003 for on-plan real estate.
- Especially immediate resolution of the problem of grasslands and newly forested fields,failure of which means the seizure and confiscation through cadastral and forest maps of at least 3.5 million acres of legal private lands covered with scrub, or even with rocks, mainly on the islands!
- Extension of the deadline for correcting inaccurate first records until the completion of 20 years from the start of operation of each Land Registry Office , in order to be aligned with the Civil Code which provides for loss of ownership due to 20-year “extraordinary use”.
- Transfer of undeclared and unknown property owners to OTAs, by amendment of article 9 of N 2664/1998, and not in the State. Municipalities know, can and will utilize urban properties for the creation of “social housing” and rural properties for the rehabilitation of landless farmers, unlike the State which is completely unable to utilize them, except for their inclusion in the Superfund!
It is absolutely clear that the non-extension of the deadline for correcting initial records and the non-resolution to date of the ownership of off-plan properties violate the constitutional provisions on the protection of of private real estate, and they turn the Land Register and forest maps into tools for confiscating the property of hundreds of thousands of honest citizens throughout the country!
With appreciation
The President
Stratos I. Paradias
