Real estate cadastre and legal registers as the basic sets of information about real estates in Poland
Wilkowski, Wojciech and Monika Jaroszewska
In Poland two autonomous sets of real estate information exist: the real estate cadastre and legal registers. The real estate cadastre is characterised by commonness of information about all real estates in Poland. However, the cadastre contains limited information concerning legal conditions of those real estates. Cadastral information files contains data concerning owners of real estates only, and in the case of lands, which belong to the State Treasury, to municipalities, powiats (districts) and voivodships (provinces), information concerning legal users, users and tenants are also stored. The cadastre is maintained by public administration bodies- the starosts (heads of powiats districts). Legal registers are not the common files of information, since they are created only after the application from the real estate owner. Due to this it is estimated that legal registers are settled for about 60% of real estates. Legal register contain much more information concerning legal conditions comparing to the real estate cadastre. The scope of legal conditions, included in legal registers, includes information on property rights, possession, land and personal servitude, tenure, administration, ways of use and mortgage burdens. Legal registers are maintained by courts. The paper presents results of investigations of the conformity of records stored in the cadastre and in legal registers concerning location of real estates, marking of real estates, size of real estates, owners and shares in property rights or in rights to legal use. The paper also presents proposals of correcting procedures aiming at elimination of discrepancies and at acquisition of coherent (compliant) data as well as at development of the forecast of the final combination of both data files and creation of the integrated real estate information system.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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