The tax office is granting the Directorate of Public Property access to the property register through interoperability, with the aim of identifying properties that are unclaimed as there are no heirs or for other various reasons.
Already the list includes 7,000 assets that are not claimed by anyone, and therefore belong to the Greek state. However, the National Economy and Finance Ministry wants to speed up procedures and increase the number of properties that can be exploited in order – after being “cleared” of various pending matters they may have – to be returned to the market and meet the needs of households.
Therefore, the Independent Authority for Public Revenue allows the Directorate of Public Property into the register of properties, with the following purposes:
First, the submission to the competent public benefit property departments by the executors of wills, liquidators and guardians of probate estates of the data of the real estate belonging to inheritances under liquidation in favor of the state or for a public benefit purpose and to inheritances without apparent heirs; and, second, the verification by the competent public benefit property departments of the realty from the above inheritances.
In the coming days the ministry is expected to put forward for public consultation a draft law for the utilization of the assets of 2,000 inactive public benefit institutions and 7,000 probate estates, with the aim of allocating part of this stock to cover the housing needs of vulnerable households.
Therefore the effort is to register the properties that remain unknown to the state as no one has claimed them. According to the bill, all public benefit properties and unclaimed inheritances will be digitally mapped, with the creation of an Electronic Register of Public Benefit Properties and a platform for unclaimed inheritances, interconnected with state registers.
All acts of administration and management of public benefit properties will be mandatorily posted in the register by those concerned.