Cadastral Renewal and Automation Project in Cyprus

Abstract

Cadasters are often seen as being one of the pillars of modern land administration systems alongside efficient land registration, property valuation, real estate taxation, and land use management systems. An effective land administration system, it is conventionally argued, is seen as being an essential prerequisite for an efficient property market. Such a system should include ways of ensuring that property rights are protected and that trading in land, the transfer of property rights, and the raising of capital by pledging property as security can take place efficiently. In order to achieve these ends modern land administration systems have land registration to record property rights, their ownership and transfer, and cadasters to map property rights and record their geo-co-ordinates.