A property lawyer’s Christmas wish list
By Eleni Philippou
Over the last twelve months I have had to console weeping or irate clients, explain and justify the unjustifiable and ...
Existing access for the benefit of a neighbouring property should be taken into account
Some properties are enclosed and lack the necessary right-of-way to a public road, or have insufficient ...
Late deposition may be permitted by a court order
If a buyer fails to deposit a sale contract they have entered into for the purchase of a property without a ...
An immovable property is transferred and registered in the name of the trustee
A person wishing to transfer an immovable property to a loved one or any other person, can ...
The director of the land registry provides information to an interested person for any entry or transfer in the land registry upon payment of a fee
There are various reasons ...
By Sarah Ktisti
Employees at the Department of Information Technology Services (DITS) on Friday laid the blame for damage to servers at the finance ministry due to a water leak ...
The server used to direct recent cyberattacks against the land registry and the University of Cyprus (UCy) has been taken over, Director for the police Cybercrime Combat unit, Andreas Anastasiades ...
The headquarters of the land registry department in Nicosia were evacuated on Friday morning after an alleged bomb threat, according to the police.
According to police, the department received a ...
An MP has alleged that thousands of pieces of real estate are being sold for millions of euros but are recorded as having zero value according to the Department of ...
The land registry website will gradually be restored after its cyberattack, and in a far more user-friendly way, the government announced on Friday.
The site was hacked on March 9, with ...
The land registry website should be fully restored next week, as technicians have been grappling with a hack which took place last Wednesday.
Land registration director Elikkos Elia told the ...
After a “thorough evaluation of all data”, the land registry department on Sunday said the technical problem that saw it go offline since Wednesday was due to a “cyber attack”
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IT specialists were still trying to bring back the land registration website on Saturday, after a hacker attack began on Wednesday evening.
The government site has been down since.
Land ...
Technicians are working “feverishly” to restore the operation of the land registry office website following an apparent cyberattack, director Elikkos Elia said on Friday.
“Technicians will be working today, tonight ...
The encumbrance created by lodging a contract of sale at the land registry is valid until its cancellation
The registration of a sale contract at the land registry creates an ...
Until recently we believed that title deeds issued by the Republic had the correct area registered and that citizens could rely on them.
However, it seems that suddenly at some ...
The director of the land registry notifies each affected person of his intention to transfer the property to the enclaved buyer
When examining an application by an enclaved purchaser, if ...
The contract governing the design and construction for the land registry’s new headquarters in Nicosia was signed on Monday at the ministry of transport.
The project concerns the design, ...
A few years ago I told then interior minister that it was not possible for even a person with the best qualifications to be able to manage such a diverse ...
The land and surveys department on Thursday published its new evaluations for January 1, 2021, covering a total of 1,660,048 properties — 25,102 or 1.5 per cent more than the 2018 survey.
The total value of the ...
It is possible to acquire a passage if land is enclosed or existing passage is insufficient
Article 11A of the Immovable Property Law, Cap.224, provides for two separate cases for ...
It regulates the private right to real estate and does not promote public purpose
The decision of the director of the land registry on a property owner’s application for ...
The land registry is carrying out its third property evaluation since 2013 with the results expected to be made public at the end of the year, it was reported on Monday.
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