As of 1 July, citizens when purchasing real-estate (apartment, land) will be able to go to a public notary to record their property and have it immediately entered in the tax registry, without having to go to the local cadastre or the Tax Office. Public notaries will be initiating the electronic submission of documents related to the sale of real-estate, to the relevant land cadastre, the Tax Office and the local self-government (municipality or city) tax administration offices.

Previously, once they were finished with their appointments at the public notaries for a mandatory verification of a legal transaction, citizens were required to go directly to the counters in the Tax Office, the municipal or the city administration offices, including those in the competent land cadastre. Now, the public notaries have accepted the obligation, previously citizens’, to submit all copies of the sale documents (sale contracts, gift deed and others) in an electronic form to the competent authorities using the Sale of Real-Estate application, thus becoming the sole point of access for citizens needing to complete all mandatory steps in the verification of a real-estate sale contract.

The new Sale of Real-Estate application, which was developed by the Ministry of Justice, uses the data and the codes of the Geodetic Institute and, through a web service, automatically sends information about the sale of the real-estate to the e-Counter application.

In addition to simplifying the sale of real-estate for the citizens, the new application enables the state authorities to receive information the same day, in a word-processed format which makes the information more eligible. Thus, the process is automatised and the time spent on the processing of files in the land cadastre is saved.

The application fully supports electronic submissions, an obligation which the public notaries have accepted effective of 1 July, pursuant to the Land and Water Cadastre Entries Act.