PILSEN / PRAGUE The Internet Real Estate Cadastre will limit the data presented, anonymous interested parties will no longer see, for example, the owner of one or another plot or house. Special registration will be required for this. Although still free, but not entirely simple.
Anonymous access to the Internet cadastre will be limited from June, some data will be hidden |
The measure, which the Czech Surveying and Cadastre Office (ČÚZK) informs about on the website of the Real Estate Cadastre application, is intended to prevent the server from being overloaded by automatic robots and the illegal misuse of downloaded data.
This was supposed to happen especially from the beginning of this year, in March the office solved the problem by “strengthening the technological infrastructure”, but fears that excessive automatic drawing of data on owners may occur again at any time. Therefore, from June, it will make more information available only to registered users. “Anonymous (unregistered) users will be shown only basic information about real estate and proceedings, without listing the property owners and participants in the proceedings,” the office states.
Complete data will be available only to users logged in through the National Point of Identification and Authentication Portal or using a remote access account. This involves a sophisticated remote method of identifying the applicant, for example by an activated contact electronic chip in an identity card, a mobile key of so-called eGovernment and the like.
Complication. But as for whom
The most frequent users, ie real estate agencies, will not be affected in any way by the required registration for free use. They have long had their own paid and detailed approach. However, the office will thus limit the view of people who use the cadastre at random. And also, for example, some seniors, for whom the newly required registration process can be complicated.
“I’m not sure how some seniors will be able to solve this matter, who in some cases may not fully understand modern technology. At the same time, it is of course important that every property owner has the opportunity to continuously check whether there is a seal on it or something else is wrong, “Jan Martina, M&M Reality’s regional manager for Prague, told Lidovky.cz.
Many people have become accustomed to finding property owners easily with one click from various map portals and applications. That may be the end of it. “It may eliminate such unnecessarily curious people, but for serious people interested in data from the cadastre, registration will not be a problem,” says Radek Šmída, a broker at Remax.
Free access is often used, for example, by homeowners’ associations (SVJ). For example, they need to check on an ongoing basis whether a member has not been declared foreclosure and pledge of property. “I use the cadastre on the Internet three to four times a month. I hope that registering for free access will be easy. Otherwise, it will be a problem for many of us, “says Karel Filip, chairman of one SVJ in Pilsen.
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