The multipurpose Hungarian unified land registry system
Ossko, Andras
The Hungarian Unified Land Registry System, integration of Cadastre and legal registry (Grundbuch) on legal basis and institutional level. There is one institutional network, named Land Office, responsible for registration of legal transactions, cadastral mapping changes and dealing with other land and real estate property related activities. As many countries in Western and Central Europe, from the middle of the 19th century, real estates were double registered in Hungary. On one hand land and real estate cadastre was created for the purpose of the state and politics for taxation. On the other hand was the factual land registry, which the negotiable and mortgaged real estate was involved in. The land registers and land cadastre were parallel used and mutual data exchange took place between them. After some time this fact resulted double data registration and this caused a lot of incertainity in the use. These circumstances ( and to avoid parallel data updating and registration) led to decision in 1971, that keeping records parallel is not authentic but unified registration has to be established, including all the data (mapping and legal) concerning the legal status of real estates. The new unified land registration was completed by the land office organisation for the entire country by communities in 1981. The Unified Land registry System became a multipurpose system and since 90s started cost recovery approach. As a result of the multipurpose nature of the system, with effect from 1st January 2007 became self financing organisation.
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