Action was taken against house and land manipulation

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change will put into operation the 'Value Information Center' application, where the immovable values ​​of the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (TKGM) will be determined fairly, in Istanbul by the first quarter of 2026 and in 81 cities by mid-2027.

According to the news in Türkiye newspaper, with the application being put into service in Istanbul, the real estate economy in the city will be revealed in a transparent and fair manner. Within the scope of the application, parcel and independent section based value maps will be created and the market value of each real estate will be processed on the maps. These maps will be used effectively in expropriation, tax, site selection and investment decision processes. With the implementation of this project in all urban settlement areas across the country, a digital and integrated real estate management infrastructure will be established. With this infrastructure, a fair, accessible and objective real estate valuation system will be offered to the service of citizens throughout Turkey. Value maps will provide up-to-date and comparable data for public institutions as well as local governments, investors, citizens and developers.

PRICE MANIPULATION WILL BE PREVENTED

The application will prevent manipulative figures in housing and land prices. The digital building inventory studies prepared by TKGM will enter a new phase with the 'Three-Dimensional City Models Project' and 'Value Information Center' application. Citizens will be able to access all information about an investment they will make from this system. They will be able to see the real market value of the real estate in an artificial intelligence-supported digital environment that compares it with other real estates in their own neighborhood and street, and analyzes housing supply and demand district by district and neighborhood by neighborhood. They will be able to learn in detail what the investment they will make will bring, its cost, and sales price estimates from this system. In this way, it is aimed to prevent price manipulations in the market.

ALSO IMPORTANT FOR DISASTER PREPARATION

Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum stated that the project will also make a significant contribution to disaster preparedness and said, “This study is also of great importance for disaster-risk provinces. The data in this system, which will include all information about real estate, will form the basis for many areas from urban transformation to spatial planning.”

CREATING DIGITAL TWINS OF CITIES

Within the scope of the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre’s ‘Three-Dimensional City Models Project’, digital twins of cities are being created. Three-dimensional city models reflecting the actual status of each building in urban areas are being transferred to the digital environment with digitized data. A system is being established that can manage all data in the digital environment, from the age information of buildings to their class, from the number of independent sections to address information, from the purpose of use to the independent sections in the project, from the square meters to the ownership information. Data such as address, zoning status, and public restrictions produced by different institutions at different times will also be integrated into the land registry and cadastre data, allowing all information about the building to be quickly accessed from a single point. The system will provide a basic data base for urban transformation, taxation, disaster management, infrastructure and transportation planning. It will provide strong data support for professional fields such as banking, insurance, risk management, real estate valuation, urban planning, construction and architecture. Within the scope of the project, many different analyses can be made from demographic structure to the income level of the neighborhood, from the level of education to the health status.

CADASTRE FILES ARE ENDING BY THE END OF THE YEAR

Minister of Justice Yilmaz Tunc stated that they have resolved the cadastral cases that have become a gangrene in the judiciary since the 1950s one by one within the scope of the 'Zero Cadastre File Project' and said, "Within the scope of the project we started at the end of 2024; a total of 7,094 decisions were made in the first three months of 2025, and in these decisions, a total of 75,726 parties and 20,270 parcels were adjudicated. We aim to zero out the total of 38,000 files in 184 cadastral courts across our country by the end of this year."

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