Cadastre-Registry coordination in Spain: opportunities for improvement

Abstract

The graphic coordination between the property registry and the Cadastre in Spain in the graphic field, introduced by Law 13/2015, has been a crucial milestone for real estate legal security and is an unstoppable process. Ten years after its entry into force, I believe that both registrars and the Cadastre should look back with sa­tisfaction. But we cannot become complacent. Both institutions are aware of the problems that impede further progress in this field, both legal and technical, and we must be able, as we have already demonstrated, to find solutions to these problems. In this article, along with a brief look at the past and present, we will address some of these, primarily from a legal perspective, highlighting some shortcomings in the existing regulations, ei­ther because they were not addressed at the time, because they were not adequately developed, or simply because they were not considered at the time.