Maanmittauslaitos

Real property

Land Information System

Property information services for property information and other land and water area information held in the cadastre and in the land register are realized with the help of the land information system. The land information system is national and meant for public use. The information service is implemented with the help of information technology.

Official Purchase Price Register

The National Land Survey maintains an official purchase price register based on real estate transactions. The aim is to be of service in defining property values for expropriations, land use planning and for providing credit, and in other evaluation and investigation tasks.

Title

A title involves registering ownership rights to a property, unseparated parcel or designated share in the title and mortgage register.

Cadastral Surveys

Parcelling

What is meant by parcelling?

Parcelling is a cadastral survey in which an unseparated area that is a transfer of part from an existing real estate unit is made into a new independent unit. One or more parcels can be involved and the procedure can also be used to transfer parts from one real estate to another.

What is the purpose of parcelling?

The purpose of parcelling is to lay down the boundaries of a real estate unit and to establish the rights bearing on its use.

Instructions

Public purchase witnessing

In public purchase witnessing, conveyance of real property is confirmed when all the signatories have signed the related document. Only a public purchase witness can carry out the confirmation. Without public purchase witnessing, the conveyance is null and void, and the purchaser cannot get the title for the property.