Cadastral surveys and land acquisition
The municipality’s surveying office draws up plot divisions, carries out subdivision of the plot, land exchanges and easement survey, maintains the real estate register and provides various information services to help builders. The real estate formation and the maintenance of the real estate register are part of a long chain of work to produce plots ready for building.
Plot division
A plot division is a plan of a building block drawn on a map, which specifies the type of plots into which the building block is to be divided.
A land plot division is drawn up when it is necessary for the organisation of land use. The owners and holders of the plot of land and of the adjoining properties are consulted when the plot division is drawn up or amended.
Plot parceling
The plot according of plot division is separated into an independent property in the parceling process. The boundaries of the plot are marked on the land and the legal registration requirements are clarified. Once the plot parcel has been subdivided and entered in the land register, the plot parcel can be applied for a building permit.
The parcelling of a transferred parcel is initiated without an application when the land registry receives information about the title to the parcel. In all other cases, the procedure is initiated by application of the owner or holder of the plot parcel that formed the plot parcel.
Real estate register
The plots and public areas of the binding plot allocation city plan district are entered in the property register maintained by the city. The land and water areas of the indicative city plan district and other land and water areas are entered in the real estate register maintained by the Finnish National Land Surveyor’s office.
Real Estate Information System
In addition to the real estate register, the real estate information system contains a register of entries maintained by the Finnish National Land Surveyor’s office, which records mortgages, mortgages, special right entries and claims to real estate.
The surveying service provides extracts from the real estate information system and the real estate register, certificates of title, certificates of encumbrance and information about the plot area.