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  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/property/greece-land-registry-planning-new-body",
  "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/property/greece-land-registry-planning-new-body.md",
  "title": "Greece promised a law moving building permits to the land registry by March 2026. We found no bill",
  "dek": "In November 2025 the government promised a law by the end of March 2026 creating ΕΟΚΕΔ, a national body for the land registry and building permits; on 15 October 2026 we found no bill, and nothing has changed for owners yet.",
  "description": "Greece promised a law moving building permits to the land registry by March 2026. On 15 October 2026 we found no bill: nothing changes for owners yet.",
  "language": "en",
  "section": "property",
  "format": "explainer",
  "published": "2026-10-15T12:19:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-15T12:19:00.000Z",
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    "type": "AI",
    "name": "Claude",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "humanReview": "A person reads every article before publication."
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  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "Property owners planning to build or renovate",
        "effect": "Nothing changes yet. Building permits are still handled by municipal building services (ΥΔΟΜ), through the e-Άδειες platform.[S2][S13]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Buyers and owners who live abroad",
        "effect": "Under the November 2025 plan, building services would be fully digital, and applications would not have to go to the local office for the property's area.[S1] None of this is law: we found no bill as of 15 October 2026.[S12][S13]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Owners with Cadastre records",
        "effect": "The Hellenic Cadastre still works as it does today. The plan would make it part of a larger body that also issues permits, but no law has been passed.[S1][S13]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "Nothing to do yet: we found no bill, and no official new timetable has been announced.[S12][S13] Keep applying for permits as now, and check your Cadastre entries, which matter whatever happens to this reform.[S2][S14]"
  },
  "status": {
    "checked": "2026-10-15",
    "steps": [
      {
        "label": "Plan for ΕΟΚΕΔ presented to the Cabinet [S1]",
        "date": "2025-11-27",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Draft bill published for public consultation on opengov.gr [S12]",
        "when": "No date announced; no consultation found on opengov.gr as of 15 October 2026",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Law passed by Parliament (official target: end of the first quarter of 2026) [S1][S13]",
        "when": "Target date passed; we found no bill in Parliament as of 15 October 2026",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Initial operation in 3 regional building centres (official target: June 2026) [S1][S7]",
        "when": "June 2026 target passed; we found no report of pilots starting. A July 2026 report citing unnamed sources said within the current year",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Full operation of ΕΟΚΕΔ and all building centres (official target: early 2027) [S1][S7]",
        "when": "Target: early 2027 in the 2025 plan; 'after 2027' (an estimate) according to a July 2026 report citing unnamed sources",
        "done": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "deadlines": [],
  "glance": [
    "On 27 November 2025 the Greek government presented ΕΟΚΕΔ, a planned national body that would join the Hellenic Cadastre (the land registry) with part of the work of municipal building services, including building permits and inspections.[S1]",
    "The government's timetable was a law by the end of the first quarter of 2026, initial operation in three regional centres in June 2026 and full operation in early 2027. As of 15 October 2026 we found no draft bill in public consultation and no bill in Parliament.[S1][S12][S13]",
    "Nothing has changed for property owners yet: we found no law, permits are still issued through the municipal building services' e-Άδειες platform, and the Cadastre works as before.[S2][S13]"
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "ot.gr reported on 10 January 2026 that pilot building services would start working under ΕΟΚΕΔ on 1 July 2026, with all services moved by January 2027.[S11]",
      "finding": "Neither date is in the ministry's release of 27 November 2025, which gives 'June 2026' for initial operation in three regional centres and 'early 2027' for full operation.[S1:timetable-pilot][S1:timetable-full] We found no report that any pilot has started, and no bill in Parliament, as of 15 October 2026.[S13]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "in.gr reported that the new body would take over building permits, building-terms certificates, pre-approvals and construction inspections.[S5]",
      "finding": "The same list appears in the environment ministry's release of 27 November 2025.[S1:competences]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "ot.gr reported that only 185 of Greece's 332 municipalities have a building service.[S11]",
      "finding": "The ministry's release gives the same figure: 185 of 332.[S1]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "When a bill creating ΕΟΚΕΔ will go to public consultation and to Parliament. No official new date has been announced since the first-quarter 2026 target passed; a July 2026 press report citing unnamed information spoke of pilots within 2026 and full operation after 2027.",
    "What legal form ΕΟΚΕΔ would take, and which ministry would supervise it. The November 2025 plan was an initiative of the environment, digital governance and interior ministries.",
    "What the 'digital link' between the Cadastre and planning offices mentioned on 14 October 2026 would change in practice for owners, buyers or notaries. No source gives details.",
    "Whether the design has changed since November 2025, given that the deputy minister spoke on 14 October 2026 of 'looking at' the creation of a new body.",
    "Which three regional centres would go first, what happens to permit applications already pending at a municipal building service during a transfer, and what the ministry's working group with the municipalities' union will change.",
    "The text of the €6.2 million ministerial decision: we know it only from trade-press reports and could not open it."
  ],
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      "date": "2025-11-27",
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      "title": "Πολεοδομίες: Την 1η Ιουλίου ξεκινά η μεγάλη μετακόμιση στο Κτηματολόγιο",
      "date": "2026-01-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.ot.gr/2026/01/10/oikonomia/akinita/poleodomies-tin-1i-iouliou-ksekina-i-megali-metakomisi-sto-ktimatologio/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015122322/https://www.ot.gr/2026/01/10/oikonomia/akinita/poleodomies-tin-1i-iouliou-ksekina-i-megali-metakomisi-sto-ktimatologio/"
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    {
      "id": "S12",
      "publisher": "opengov.gr (government public consultations)",
      "title": "Διαβουλεύσεις Υπουργείου Περιβάλλοντος και Ενέργειας (searched 15 October 2026: no consultation on ΕΟΚΕΔ found)",
      "date": null,
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://opengov.gr/ypen/",
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      "id": "S13",
      "publisher": "Βουλή των Ελλήνων (Hellenic Parliament)",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Nomothetiko-Ergo/Katatethenta-Nomosxedia",
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      "id": "S14",
      "publisher": "ecopress.gr",
      "title": "Πολεοδομίες: Σε γραμμή προτεραιότητας ο ΕΟΚΕΔ, με «μαύρες τρύπες» στο Κτηματολόγιο",
      "date": "2026-10-15",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://ecopress.gr/poleodomies-se-grammi-proteraiotita/",
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  ],
  "greekPassages": [
    {
      "id": "competences",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Press release of 27 November 2025, description of the new body",
      "greek": "Ο νέος φορέας αναλαμβάνει την καταγραφή, τεκμηρίωση και εγγύηση της ιδιοκτησίας, την έκδοση οικοδομικών αδειών και όλων των συναφών πράξεων (βεβαιώσεις όρων δόμησης, προεγκρίσεις), τον έλεγχο των κατασκευών και την τήρηση της πολεοδομικής νομοθεσίας.",
      "translation": "The new body takes over the recording, documentation and guarantee of ownership, the issuing of building permits and all related acts (building-terms certificates, pre-approvals), the inspection of construction and the enforcement of planning law."
    },
    {
      "id": "timetable-law",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Press release of 27 November 2025, timetable, first item",
      "greek": "Τέλος 1ου τριμήνου 2026: Ψήφιση νομοθετικού πλαισίου",
      "translation": "End of the first quarter of 2026: legal framework voted"
    },
    {
      "id": "timetable-pilot",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Press release of 27 November 2025, timetable, second item",
      "greek": "Ιούνιος 2026: Αρχική λειτουργία σε 3 Περιφερειακά Κέντρα και αντίστοιχα Τοπικά",
      "translation": "June 2026: initial operation in 3 Regional Centres and the corresponding Local ones"
    },
    {
      "id": "timetable-full",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Press release of 27 November 2025, timetable, third item",
      "greek": "Αρχές 2027: Πλήρης λειτουργία ΕΟΚΕΔ και όλων των ΠΚΔ & ΤΚΔ.",
      "translation": "Early 2027: full operation of ΕΟΚΕΔ and of all Regional and Local Building Centres."
    },
    {
      "id": "soukouli",
      "source": "S2",
      "where": "Speech at the Prodexpo 2026 conference, 14 October 2026, as reported",
      "greek": "Σε συνεργασία με το Υπουργείο Ψηφιακής Διακυβέρνησης, έχουμε μπει στη διαδικασία να δούμε τη δημιουργία ενός νέου οργανισμού όπου και το κτηματολόγιο και η πολεοδομία θα έρθουν να κουμπώσουν",
      "translation": "Together with the Ministry of Digital Governance, we have begun the process of looking at the creation of a new body in which both the cadastre and planning will come to fit together"
    }
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  "redlines": [],
  "corrections": [],
  "tags": [
    "cadastre",
    "building permits",
    "planning",
    "ΕΟΚΕΔ",
    "municipalities",
    "property"
  ]
}