Real Estate Recording
Course type
Study programme and level
Language
slovenščina
Lectures | Seminar | Tutorial | Druge oblike študija | Individual Work | ECTS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
30 | 120 | 5 |
Study programme and level | Study field | Academic year | Semester |
I. level | Law and Management of Infrastructure and Real Estate | 1 | 2 |
Course type
Compulsory
Workload | Lectures (h/semester) | Seminar
(h/semester) |
Tutorial
(h/semester) |
Individual Work (h/semester) | ECTS |
30 | 25 | 70 | 5 |
Lecturer
assist. prof. dr. Božena Lipej
Languages
English
Prerequisites
Prerequisite is enrollment in the 1st year of study.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Course Content:
– Real estate management, registers, cadastre, institutional and organizational frameworks.
– Land cadastre – historical development, content, processes, establishment and maintenance.
– Building cadastre – historical development, content, processes, establishment and maintenance.
– Implementation of geodetic services for the needs of real estate recording.
– Register of real estate – purpose, content, establishment and maintenance.
– Mass valuation of real estate with taxation of real estate – basics.
– Spatial and geodetic records, coordinate system.
– Land registry – historical development, content, principles, establishment and maintenance.
– Manual and electronic land registry.
– Land registration processes.
– Registration and entry of condominiums into the land registry – basic principles.
– Development of cadastres and land registries or unified systems in selected European countries.
– European spatial directive (INSPIRE), real estate systems (EULIS).
Study Literature
– Real-Estate Recording Act.
– Real Property Mass Valuation Act.
– Land Survey Service Act.
– Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act.
– Land Register Act.
– Act on the Acquisition of the Strata Title of a Part of a Building on the Proposal of the Owner and on Determining the Land Belonging Thereto.
– Law of Property Code.
– Spatial Management Act.
– Spatial Planning Act.
– Construction Act.
– Housing Act.
– Act Regulating Measures Aimed at Fiscal Balance.
– Land administration in the ECE Region, developments, trends and main principles, UN-ECE, 2005, http://www.unece.org/env/documents/2005/wpla/ECE-HBP-140-e.pdf.
– Cadastre 2014 and Beyond, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), FIG Publication no. 61, 2014, http://fig.net/pub/figpub/pub61/figpub61.htm.
– United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Working Party on Land Administration (workshop materials and publications), http://www.unece.org/hlm/wpla/welcome.htm, (example: Survey on the benchmarking of land administration systems, available at www.unece.org).
– Doing Business, The World Bank Group, http://www.doingbusiness.org/.
– European Land Information Service (EULIS), http://www.eulis.org/.
– Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. Rim: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rim, 2012, http://www.fao.org/nr/tenure/voluntary-guidelines/en/.
– Infrastructure for spatial information in the European Community (INSPIRE-theme page), http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/.
Objectives and competences
Real estate management and knowledge of spatial infrastructure are the basic elements on which they build prosperous economies of developed countries. In Slovenia, land registry, land cadastre and building cadastre are fundamental, de iure records of real estate. Deliberately and systematically monitoring and recording of real estate data means integrating and linking locational and technical real estate data and data on rights to real estate and legal facts relating to real estate.
The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the importance of real estate registration, the legislation in this area and to bring them closer a variety of records and databases that are emerging in the field of management of space and real estate recording.
Learning unit contributes to the development of the following general and subject-specific competencies:
– Knowledge of basics of real estate recording and management,
– Knowledge of relevant legislation in this area,
– Ability of flexible usage of knowledge in practice,
– Ability of independent study and research work assisted by tutors,
– Organizational skills to organize active and independent work,
– Communicating with experts from various fields of real estate and with different interest groups.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding:
– Student understands the basic principles of real estate recording and management,
– Student knows European systems of real estate recording and management,
– Student knows the land registry, land cadastre, building cadastre, real estate register,
– Student knows and understands the procedures and processes of real estate recording and management,
– Student develops the skills of active monitoring and understanding of real estate maintenance, recording and management issues and related processes.
Learning and teaching methods
– Lectures by showing practical examples and best practices with active participation of students (presentations, questions, discussion).
– Linking of course content with the working environment.
Assessment
Written exam.
Lecturer’s references
BOŽENA LIPEJ, Ph. D., Ass. Prof.
Božena Lipej, Ph. D., Ass. Prof., is active in the academic and counselling field of work in management of real estate, geodesy and geoinformation and has long experience in the field of real estate in Slovenian and international environment. In public and private sectors has led various activities, real estate, spatial planning and geodetic projects and international real estate organizations (in EuroGeographics, umbrella geodetic and real estate organization for national institutions: chairing the »Cadastre and Land Registry Group« and in the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations chairing the »Working Party on Land Administration«). She was the executive director and project manager of the largest Slovenian Real Estate Registration Modernization Project, which lasted five years and was co-financed by the funds of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The World Bank); modernization of cadastres, land registry, environment setting for agricultural subsidies, concept and piloting of mass valuation of real estate, legislation preparation in the fields of property law, mortgage banking, real estate tax. She was Deputy Director General of Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, General manager of GZS, and now is engaged in providing consultancy on real estate subject areas, especially in cooperation with the World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). She is also a lecturer at a Master course in real estate management at the Pristina European School of Law and Governance in Kosovo. She is the author of more than 200 professional and scientific articles and co-author of European real estate documents and guidelines.
Selected references:
May 2011 – ongoing, Short Term Consultant in the fields of land administration, land management, cadastre, land registration for the World Bank (also for the FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations):
– Croatia: Integrated Land Administration System Project (project implementation since 2014),
– Bosnia and Herzegovina: Land Registration Project (finished in 2012), Real Estate Registration Modernization Project (project preparations and project implementation since 2013),
– Albania: Land Administration and Management Project (finished in 2014), Environmental Service Project (project preparation and project implementation since 2015),
– Romania: Complementing EU Support for Agricultural Restructuring, Component 1: Land Administration (2014 – 2015),
– Tajikistan: Real Estate Registration Project (project preparation since 2015).
October 2013 – September 2014, University of Zagreb, cooperation on the Short-term scientific project: Influence of global navigation satelite system (GNSS) technology and infrastructure for spatial information (IPI) concept on spatial data users and the synergetic influence on managerial processes in Croatia and in the wider region.
October 2008 – November 2009, GZS d.d., Project manager of GZS for the following two projects: European Union, Phare Program: Technical Assistance for the Harmonization Process Between Land Registry and Cadastre Data in Selected Regions of the Republic of Croatia Project and Real Property Registration and Cadastre project (The World Bank Loan), Geodetic-cadastral services for production of digital cadastral maps.
March 2006 – November 2006, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, Project manager – European Union, Transitional Facility Program: Real Estate Records Management Harmonization Project. Beneficiary institution: Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia.
October 2004 – October 2008, EuroGeographics, Chairperson – Chairing the Cadastre and Land Registry Group of EuroGeographics (membership association of the European national mapping, land registry and cadastral agencies).
January 2000 – June 2005, Executive director and project manager, Real Estate Registration Modernization Project, Slovenia, co-financed by the loan of the World Bank. Beneficiaries: Ministry of environment and spatial planning – Surveying and mapping authority, Ministry of justice, Ministry of agriculture, forestry and food, Ministry of finance and the Supreme court. Managing and leading the activities of the biggest Slovenian real estate registration project e.g. managing the following Components: A. Land and building cadastre, B. Land registry, C. Apartment registration development, D. Agriculture land use monitoring, E. Real estate tax and valuation system development, F. Housing finance and mortgage reform, G. Legal framework for property ownership, H. Project coordination support.
February 1996 –November 2005, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE), Bureau member – Guiding the operations of land administration through the so-called bureau (management board) of the UN/ECE Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA).
October 2000 – October 2008, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, Deputy Director General – Co-managing the Slovene state surveying, cadastral and mapping administration. Professional work in geodesy, real estate registration and mapping field of work. Strategy and policy development, setting-up and amending the legislative framework, leadership in projects.
August 2000 – June 2001, Project manager – European Union, Phare Program 1999: Modernization of Real Estate Records Management Project, Beneficiaries: Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia.
November 1999 – November 2001, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE), Chairperson/Team Leader – Chairing land administration activities of the UN/ECE Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA), working on UN/ECE guidelines and professional documents in the field of real estate, raising awareness, organizing workshops, sharing best practices in the UN/ECE region with a special focus on countries in transition. Workshops were organized in different cultural, social and professional environments.
Membership of selected professional bodies:
• Slovenian Chamber of Engineers – licensed graduated engineer of geodesy – “responsible geodesist”
• Business Interest Association of Geodetic Companies
• Slovenian Chamber of Engineers – geodesist – “official geodetic card holder”
• Editorial Board of Geodetski vestnik member, Journal of the Association of Surveyors of Slovenia, responsible for land administration and real estate recording. Editorial Board of international scientific journal Micro Macro & Mezzo Geo Information member.
• International Federation of Surveyors – FIG
• Association of Geographical Societes of Slovenia
• Manager Association.