No, this is not possible. After the initial registrations have been recorded in the cadastral books and the Cadastre has become operative in a region, you must follow the procedure for the correction of an initial registration. Your property may have been flagged to belong to an “unknown owner”. For more information you can contact the Head of the local Cadastral Office or the Customer Service of Ktimatologio S.A. at + 30 210 65 05 600.

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The law provides for the correction procedure either following the simple, quick and costless procedure of obvious error at the Cadastral Office or the voluntary (non-contentious) jurisdiction procedure that requires an application to the Cadastral Judge or obtaining a judicial decision, if it is about ownership litigations.

CORRECTION OF INITIAL REGISTRATIONS

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The deadline for correcting the initial registrations is eight (8) years. For the GreekState, people residing or working permanently abroad when the eight-year deadline expires, the respective deadline for taking legal action is ten (10) years. The correction deadline begins when the decision of HEMCO, with which the entry into force of the Cadastre in the surveyed region is decided, is published in the Government Gazette. For more information on the exact publication date of HEMCO’s decision in the Government Gazette defining the date when the Cadastre went into force in the region of your particular interest, you can address the Customer Service of Ktimatologio S.A. (tel. + 30 210 6505600) or click here.

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If it is about a region where the cadastral survey has been completed and the local Land Registry Office is operating in the interim as a Cadastral Office, you should contact their services and ask for information about the registration of your property and your right on it. If it is about a region where the cadastral survey has not been completed, then you should ask the Cadastral Survey Office for information. Formoreinformationonthecadastral survey stage of every region, you can address the Customer Service of Ktimatologio S.A. (tel. + 30 210 6505600) or click here.

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It is not foreseen that titles will be granted to the beneficiaries of the initial registrations. The cadastral survey procedure that leads to the initial registrations is only of an attestingnature, in the sense that it leads to attesting which standing rights are registrable in the cadastral books. Initial registrations, after the lapse of the deadline defined by law for taking legal action against them, become final and produce an irrefutable presumption of correctness; this way, transactions achieve legal certainty and bona fide transactors, who trust cadastral registrations, are protected.

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a. If you know the KAEK of the property and you look for legal information on the registrable rights standing on this property, then a search will be conducted in the cadastral book and specifically in the cadastral sheet of the property. Furthermore, a search can be also conducted at the cadastral plans in order to attest the exact representation of the property in terms of its location and boundaries.   

b. If you do not know the property’s KAEK but you know the details of the owner, then a search can be conducted in the alphabetical indexes based on the owner’s full name. If the owner is a married women, it is advisable that the search is conducted using both last names (maiden last name / husband’s last name). Finally, if the KAEK is unknown, the search at the cadastral plans can be conducted based on a topographicplan, in order to locate the specific property in the broader area.

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Cadastral Offices ought to grant certificates, copies and extracts fromthemaintained cadastral data to whoever has a legal interest and files an application, either in person or via a representative, paying the necessary fees and rights.

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In the application forms for the issue of certificates there is a field where you can fill in the details of the person you wish to receive the requested certificates on your behalf, should you be unable to do so. The person you appoint can receive the certificates you applied for once they present their Identification Card.

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If the property that is flagged to belong to an “unknown owner” falls under one of the cases of obvious error (e.g. partitioned property, property acquired with a concession deed by the Greek Stateor property included in a common ownership title etc.), you will file an   Application for the Correction of an Obvious Error in the name of the deceased beneficiary, invoking the data that prove your inheritance right. After this, the acceptance of the inheritance will be registered, so that your data is recorded.

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