Greece has restructured its property registration system by establishing a new public entity called the “Hellenic Cadastre” to replace the former “National Cadastre and Mapping Agency S.A.” This new agency operates from Athens under the oversight of the Minister of Environment and Energy.
Organizational Structure
The new system includes seventeen cadastral offices distributed across Greece’s regions, with special provisions for larger areas: three offices in Attica and two in Central Macedonia. Additionally, sixty-eight branches have been established in major cities and islands throughout the country. The Hellenic Cadastre is designed to be financially self-sufficient.
Primary Objectives
The main functions of the Hellenic Cadastre encompass:
- Ensuring reliability, publicity and availability of territorial and legal data relating to immovable property
- Enhancing transaction security through comprehensive property registration
- Recording legal and technical property information
- Precisely determining property locations and boundaries
- Publishing legal rights associated with real estate
- Providing geodetic and cartographic coverage nationwide