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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Aerial Photos To Help in Property Registration

Next time you are outside, look up and smile. You could be on camera.

Say what?

The government has launched an ambitious program called "Propiedades inscritas y seguras" by the Regularización de Catastro y Registro, which, with the help of NASA, will photograph every inch of the national territory, to avoid mistakes and problems with the land registry.The first flight began this week with the area of Límon, was confirmed by the director of the Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología (Cenat), Pedro León, who says they hope to cover 90% of the national territory by the project's end.The program will cost us$92 million dollars and is party financed by a loan from the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID).The program is strengthen the national registry to avoid and eliminate many of the problems with the registration process and in the hopes of also attracting more investment dollars to the country, by having a sound and solid property registration program.Many owners and buyers of property have run into problems with title and have had to spend money and time to correct many of the problems that have gone unchecked for years. In some cases, property owners have lost part of their property due to mistakes in the registry.in other cases, buyers have been left holding the bag when the property they thought they bought was non-existent or never registered. Problems with the property registration has been a nightmare for many.The aerial photos will be used to verify property demarcations of the 1.2 million property registrations and plans on file at the Registro Nacional. TheThe aerial photography part of the program is to take about six weeks to complete, which is expected to take about 8.500 photos in 66 flights.

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