About the Hungarian Land Offices |
Monday, 04 August 2014 | |
What to know about the Hungarian land officesThe maintenance of the countrywide land registration system and case management concerning land and other real estates are the main duties of the territorially competent district land offices. In Hungary, there are 5-8 district land offices in each county; since 3 January 2008, in Budapest, three land offices of district level have been working. The district land offices have been keeping and updating the records of land registration data by settlements, and within that, by locations (urban and rural area; earlier a third category, the so-called „hobby garden” was used too). Within the district land offices, client services are responsible for the receiving of applications from and supplying data for the clients. The System, Structure and Duties of Land Offices The System, Structure and Duties of the Land Offices The district land offices (and their branch offices) have been maintaining the land and property registration data and managing the cases concerning all land and other real estates. The superior authority above district land offices are the county land offices, and in Budapest, the Capital Land Office, respectively, which are responsible for the professional direction, supervision and control at the same time. The county level land offices have been working under the professional direction, supervision and control of the Department of Land Administration within the Ministry of Agriculture. The institutional network of the land offices (19 county level, 1 of the Capital, and 121 district level) has the duty of land and property registration (legal and geometrical data, property sheets and maps), the maintenance of data and map archives with data supply from them, and completing tasks related to land protection, land classification and land consolidation/reorganization on a daily basis. The land office staff has been working under the leadership of the office heads and according to the relevant valid rules of law in the following organisational structure and completing duties listed below: Division for Land Registration
Division for Land Surveying
Division for Protection, Classification and Use of Land
Client Service, Data Supply
On the top of the home page you can find a search box (Land Office Address List) by settlement helping the orientation: you can get information, which district land office is territorially competent for managing the case of a piece of land situated in a given settlement. |