The Real Estate Property registry, an indispensable instrument in urban real estate development

Abstract

This article develops a brief overview of the evolution of the Registries since 1998 and the legal norms that regulate its activity, provides us with a vision about the regeneration of its functions and its close relationship with the real estate world from the methodological sponsorship of the Ministry of Justice. The double character of the Real Estate Property Registers is considered as protector of entitlements, facts or circumstances related to the real estate and its aptitude as an administrative office that provides public services to the municipal governments as a tool of urban real estate development, physical planning and the territorial rearrangement. In a succinct way some ideas are expressed on the constitutional principle of the double subordination, especially the administrative one, cornerstone of the relation of said institutions with the local Intendancies, recommending to establish by means of a legal norm or the modification in the housing law still in force its content, in order to clarify the relationship between the Registries and the public interest that governments must preserve. Finally, as a complement to the previously formulated considerations, the correlation of the registry with physical planning and territorial ordering is deepened, as a guarantee of the physical reordering of urban blocks that allows to identify the free spaces to build homes by own effort and to elaborate effective proposals to foreign investment in municipal territories.