At the same time, the land registry project in the country is progressing, with the completion rate having reached 52%. The goal is for it to be completed by the end of the year. By the end of the year, the digitization of the records in the Land Registry and Mortgages System across all land registries in Greece is also expected to be completed. This project is funded by the Recovery and Resilience Fund and is currently 45% complete, with 280 million pages digitized.
Upon completion of the land registry project, Greece will have a comprehensive Land Register—an integrated and continuously updated registry of real estate ownership, documenting legal, technical, and other supplementary information about properties and associated rights. The data in this registry will have evidentiary value, backed by the responsibility and guarantee of the State. This process began 200 years ago and has cost billions of euros.
The process of land registration started 200 years ago, with the first law for organizing a cadastral system of recording property rights dating back to 1836 during the reign of King Otto, based on the model of the German Land Registry.
In the mid-1980s, the Hellenic Cadastre and Mapping Organization (OKXE) was established, which, among other responsibilities, would be tasked with drafting and maintaining the National Land Registry.
Nearly a decade later, "Ktimatologio S.A." was established as a private legal entity in the form of a public limited company. In 1995-1996, the first pilot land registrations began, while major urban centers, where the first Cadastral Offices would be located, were registered between 1999-2000.
The second phase of expanded land registrations began in 2008 (if the period from 1995-2000 is considered as a single phase) and included the bulk of the country's two major urban centers (Athens and Thessaloniki), as well as other urban centers that had not been included in the previous land registration phase. However, the land registration of a large part of Attica, including the Municipality of Athens, has not been completed to this day.
The latest land registration studies began in 2011 and 2013, encountering numerous issues both in the study assignment process and in the initiation of land registration activities.
By April 2008, 8.4 million acres and 6 million rights had been recorded. With Law 4164/2013, the organization was renamed to National Cadastral and Mapping S.A., and under Law 4512/2018, it took its current name, Hellenic Cadastre.
