Training of real estate officials

TIRANA, Oct 5 – Mortgage office officials in capital Tirana convened last week in a training seminar also assisted by the British embassy.
Arben Qirjako of the mortgage office said their officials were scanning all documentation and would set them into the computer in order to better and faster serve citizens.
Qirjako also said that anti-corruption projects had given concrete results in their daily work.
But British Ambassador Fraser Wilson reminded them and also other authorities that resolving the property problem, issue in the country remained fundamental to attracting more foreign direct investment much needed from the tiny Balkan country, one of Europe’s poorest.
That is also important along the country’s efforts of membership into the European Union.
Post-communist Albania has made efforts to resolve the property ownership trying to cope with the mixture of documentation from the communist regime when there was practically almost no personal property, but also with corruption after the fall of that regime in 1990.
Property titles remain a main issue of contest in the courts.