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Country details
Size: 45,277 sq km sq km
Population: 1.34 million (approx)
Registration coverage
Percentage of area registered:
Land Board (Land Cadastre) = 84.2%.
Land Register = 60% of total land (state land is not registered).
Number of properties/titles registered:
Around 898,000 registered parts (as of 1 May 2009).
Number of mortgages registered:
Over 390,000 mortgages registered (as of 1 May 2009).
Registry details
Registry name: Kinnistusraamat (Land Register)
Size of organisation:
The *Land Register *is maintained by land registry departments of local law courts.
There are 10 registration departments and they operate under 4 county courts.
Centre of Registers and Information Systems (RIK) is a state agency working under the Ministry of Justice. The main function is to develop and administrate the registers and information systems for the government department of the Ministry of Justice, and to provide communication and information technology services. Registers included: Commercial register, E-notary, Land Register and several information systems for law and criminal jurisdiction (such as court information system, e-File, e-Justice).
Subscribed users:
15,800 users.
In addition users can search without a contract, by authenticating and paying with ID card and using internet banking. This is a widely used facility.
Searches available:
The electronic enquiry system enables users to search by:
- address
- the cadastral register number
- first name and surname
- personal identification code/registry code
- name of the registered immovable
- registered immovable property number
- land registry division.
The result of the search gives information from the register part.
Information available:
Information in the register includes:
- Cadastral information – addres, area, purpose of land
- Ownership relation
- Encumbrances, restrictions, rights of use, other notations
- Mortgages
Products available:
RIK offers information services and on-line services based on the database of the Land Register.
Channels available for obtaining land register information include:
- web-based enquiry systems
- integrated data interchange (XML services and services by x-road)
- information service – info line Tel: +372 900 1010, Email: rik.info@just.ee
Description or interesting facts
The Estonian Land Register is a title based electronic register. The right has to be entered in the land register to be valid. Entries made in the land register are presumed correct.
The land register is accessible online and all register parts are valid electronically.
Estonian registers change information electronically using the government information system X-Road.
In the Estonian conveyancing process notaries send through e-Notary applications to the land registry and receive back the data of finished entries or detailed information about register parts. In addition to the connection with the notary system, the land register has electronic online data interchange with registers like land cadastre, the business register and the population register.
Contact details:
National contact
Ingmar Vali –
Tel – +372 680 3163
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Connected
- Austria Bundesministerium für Justiz
- England and Wales Land Registry
- Ireland Property Registration Authority
- Lithuania Registru Centras
- Netherlands Kadaster
- Sweden Lantmateriet
Pending
- Belgium Administration générale de la Documentation patrimoniale (Cadastre, Enregistrement, Domaines et Hypothèques) - Algemene Administratie van de Patrimoniumdocumentatie (Kadaster, Registratie, Domeinen en Hypotheken).
- Czech Republic ISKN - Český úřad zeměměřický a katastrální
- Estonia Kinnistusraamat (Land Register)
- Finland Maanmittauslaitos
- Iceland Fasteignaskrá Íslands - (e.Icelandic Property Registry).
- Italy Agenzia del Territorio and Provincia Autonoma di Trento e Bolzano, Servizio Libro Fondiario
- Latvia State Land Service (system provided is called Cadastre Information System) and Landbook (system provided is called State Unified Computerized Land Register)
- Northern Ireland
- Norway Norsk Eiendomsinformasjon
- Scotland Registers of Scotland
- Serbia Republic Geodetic Authority (RGA)
- Slovak Republic Úrad geodézie, kartografie a katastra Slovenskej republiky (Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic)
- Slovenia The Land Registry (Zemljiska knjiga)
- Spain Colegio de Registradores de la Propiedad, mercantiles y de bienes muebles de España.
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