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Proposed legal changes target final solution to long-standing property issue

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TIRANA, Dec. 5 – Albania is trying to give a permanent solution to the long-standing issue of unclear property titles through legal changes which it says will bring an end to the chaos of property ownership in the country during the past quarter of a century of transition. The complicated property issue is a result of a controversial agrarian reform in the early 1990s following the collapse of the communist regime and subsequent non-transparent privatization of state-run property as well as dozens of thousands of illegal constructions built either on private or state-run land during the past 27 years, a…

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  • Legal changes already submitted to Parliament by the ruling Socialists envisage the merge of three property institutions into a single Cadastral Agency that will handle real estate registration, legalization and state-run property affairs under easier procedures expected to provide a solution for more than half of the country’s immovable property with ownership problems, in a situation that has severe consequences for the property owners themselves, but also the country’s business climate

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