1. ‘Quality, innovations and reliability of the Swedish Land Management system’
Dennis Lindén
Land Registration Division
The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority

2. Background 1227 – Oldest document about land transfer
1628 – Establishment of mapping
The Land Data Bank Legislation

3. Background 2006 - New strategy for a National
Infrastructure for geodata in Sweden
Land Registration development program
2006, the Swedish Government commissioned Geodata Advisory Board to prepare a strategy for the development of a national infrastructure for geodata in Sweden. Since then, work has been carried out in close collaboration with the Swedish
Association of Local Authorities and Regions and a range of other relevant organisations.
Land Registration development program aimed at streamlining the process for real estate, through new IT solutions for the processing and storage of information. New systems for property registration An ageing and outdated mainframe platform was phased out and replaced by a modern technical solution.
Sweden ranked 11th globally in the Registering property part of the Doing business survey

4. Land administration index in Sweden

5. Registering Property – reliability of infrastructure
Titles and deeds are kept in a computerized format
Electronic databases for:
Mortgages: the register contains 12,5 million mortgages
Boundaries and cadastral information: 3,5 million land plots
The same identification number for properties
in all registers:
- immovable property,
- cadastral and
- mapping
Since 1992 there is an electronic database for checking for encumbrances – mortgages is in the register
91% are in digital form and 9% in paper form.

6. Registering Property – transparency of information
cases – or per day - were handled 2015
Freely accessible:
Information on land ownership
Maps of land plots
Publicly available:
Service time (updated on a weekly basis)
Documents required to complete property transaction
Fee schedule for any property transaction

7. Registering Property – geographic coverage
100 % of all privately owned land plots are
formally registrered
100 % of all privately held land plots are mapped
3,5 milllion land plots in total in Sweden
in the city of Stockholm

8. Registering Property – Land dispute resolution
All property sale transactions are registered in the
property registry – this is required by law
The system of immovable property registration is
subjected to a state guarantee
Parties are compensated if erroneous information is
incurred in a property transaction
The legal system requires a legality-control of the documents necessary for a property transaction
1 200 land disputes were filed in Stockholm in 2014
700 land dispute cases pending earlier than 2014

9. Further digital cooperation between authorites - Swedish e-delegation
Cadastral formation
Geodetic
network
City
planning
Property
register
First level:
Business area, built environment
Mapping and
imagery
Second level:
Information exchange between authorities
Third level:
IT-infrastructure