2.4 Million Properties Registered
Kyrgyz Republic: Land and Real Estate Registration Project

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In moving to a market economy, secure rights in immovable property were essential for the development of the Kyrgyz Republic. Without clear and secure rights, it was difficult and expensive to buy and sell real estate or to use real estate as security for a loan. The Government could not administer land and real estate policy appropriately. Information on land and real estate in the Kyrgyz Republic had been collected and maintained in an uncoordinated and incomplete manner by a number of different agencies, including the Bureaus of Technical Inventory, Land Agency offices, city and regional Architects’ Offices, the State Property Fund, the State Cartographic Agency, and others. Furthermore, as the process of initial privatization of immovable property moved forward, the rapidly growing amount of information pertaining to rights became difficult to access and retrieve. As a result, it was of limited use.

In 2000, the Land and Real Estate Registration Project was started to support the development of markets for land and real estate and also to improve their use. This is being achieved by introducing a reliable and well-functioning system for the registration of rights and the creation of Gosregister, the state agency which established the legal and administrative basis for registration of land and real estate. The project will be completed by the end of 2008.

	"We thought that registering our new apartment would take us forever. We were surprised that it took us only a few days, and that the staff of Gosregister were polite." —A Young Family From the Capital Bishkek
	"The Kyrgyz Government, with the help of the World Bank and other donors, established a new, comprehensive, and effective registration system for land and immovable property rights" —Adamjan Djoldoshev, Director of the State Agencyfor Registration of Rights

• Over 2.4 million immovable property objects have been registered.
• Registry transitions are relatively efficient by international standards, and cadastral information is more accessible.
• Sales, leases and mortgages have grown significantly, as have tax income and other economic benefits: more than 45,000 mortgages valued at $1.1 billion equivalent were registered in 2007.
• The public’s sense of security in relation to their real estate has increased. People have confidence in Gosregister.
• Gosregister established the legal and administrative basis for registration of land and real estate, opened and equipped 50 offices around the country, and established and installed a computerized registration system in more than 20 local offices.

• Mr. Adamjan Djoldoshev - Director, State Agency for Registration of Rights (Gosregister)
• Mr. Junus Kalberdiev - Director, Land and Real Estate Registration Project Implementation Unit

• Jessica Mott, Sr. Natural Resources Economist Rural Development, Sustainable Development Department, ECA
• Ainura Kupueva, Operations Officer, Sustainable Development Department, ECA
• Mika Torhonen, Land Administration Specialist from FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
• Tony Lamb, Land Law and Registration Specialist
• Suha Satana, Economist, Consultant
• Ms. Janna Ryssakova, Social Development Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, ECA

• State Agency for Registration of Rights (Gosregister)
• Land and Real Estate Registration Project Page