Since June 2005, map copies of land parcels and other real estates registered in the area of Budapest have been serviced through TakarNet System. You can have the copy of the map of a given parcel or other property after a search started with its parcel identity number or postal address. In line with the speed of digital map production, the circle of those settlements has been growing day by day, the maps of which are getting ready for servicing. From April 2006 on, one can require map copies of rural land parcels registered at rural district land offices. TakarNet users can request map copies of parcels/properties of urban areas as well in more and more places of the country.

• Land offices servicing maps of rural areas via TakarNet
• Map datasets available by settlements via TakarNet 

Separation of the Capital District Land Office

From 2 January on, the Capital District Land Office is transformed into two offices, aiming at better servicing of the clients in Budapest, closer to their homes. Instead of the only Capital District Land Office, having maintained all land related data of whole  Budapest, there were formed Budapest District Land Office No. 1 in the old building in Budafoki Street with a field of competence covering the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd districts), and Budapest District Land Office No. 2 within the building of Lehel Square Market Hall with a field competence covering the following Budapest districts: 5th, 6th and 13th. The development goes on: according to plans, before the end 2007, Budapest District Land Office No. 3. will also be opened on Bosnyák tér, 14th district.

The Act XXXV/2000 on plant protection provides that  „the land user is obliged to prevent ragweed flower-buds from development before 30 June of the given year, and keep this situation continuously till the end of the growth season.”

Changes in rules of law concerning land registration

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association recently released the URISA Salary Survey for IT/GIS Professionals, July 2007, based on responses collected last year from 2,402 individuals. Nearly two thirds of the respondents (63.8 percent) indicated that they had seen an increase in the number of GIS staff employed by their organizations over the past five years.

Though there were several initiatives aiming at dividing the uniform land registration system, the land administration successfully proved that they have been able to maintain the efficiency and the legal security in the usual way. For me it is quite evident that the tasks of public administration can be solved with the greatest efficiency in the current uniform system. The land administration has to go on with the electronic case management for improving the efficiency and the legal security. Services should be provided on equal conditions both for the players of business life, the citizens and the organizations of the State budget.

Land is unlike other commodities that can be  bought and sold in that it is immoveable. Buildings upon it can be dismantled and moved elsewhere but the land on which they stand cannot be moved. Only the rights to use the land can be bought and sold. 
Land markets exist when and wherever it is possible to exchange rights in land for agreed amounts of money or services rendered.  The ability and capacity of banks and other financial institutions to lend money is underpinned by an efficient land market, which in turn requires an efficient land administration system.

The aim of the European Land Information Service (EULIS) is to provide easy worldwide access to European land and property information, to underpin a single European property market. Although it is ultimately the citizens of Europe who have the most to gain from this new service, its target users are the professional intermediaries through which citizens act, such as lawyers, conveyancers and notaries, and service providers such as lenders and real estate agents.  By making it easier for professionals to do business in other jurisdictions, EULIS aims to promote the economy of the European Community by breaking down barriers to cross-border lending, enabling more competition in the secured credit and real property markets, bringing more choice for borrowers, providing links with non-EU countries and encouraging the spread of best practice.