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Azerbaijan plans to bring all real estate, including land plots, into a single electronic system regardless of ownership type.
Under proposed amendments to the Land Code, the state cadastre will be maintained fully electronically through the information system of the relevant executive authority.
The system will include data on initial registration applications, document changes and state orders.
Vugar Oruj, chairman of the Society of Appraisers, said the new system creates a legal basis for addressing the long-standing problem of undocumented homes in Azerbaijan.
According to him, there are more than 500,000 undocumented houses in the country, and they need to be entered into the official register.
Once registered, he said, these properties will become part of the formal real estate market and the national economy.
Oruj noted that the new system will make it possible to record not only properties already listed in the register, but also real estate that has not yet been officially documented.
He said the lack of a fully functioning cadastral system in previous years led to cases where shared agricultural land was illegally sold as residential plots.
According to the expert, the proposed changes should help prevent such violations in the future.
At the same time, Oruj said separate measures may be needed to legalize informal transactions that have already taken place.
These include cases where land plots were sold, transferred or handed over under private agreements without proper legal grounds.
The new electronic system will also include data on state borders, municipal territories, infrastructure facilities and protected zones of Azerbaijan’s sector of the Caspian Sea.
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