The real estate rights and mortgages information system, gathering deeds and related notations (a sort of summaries of the deeds, submitted by an attesting official when asking for transcription or inscription), mainly concerning the transfer of ownership and other rights in rem, and the raising and write-off of mortgages. It contains about 45 millions of automated notations and about 40 million notation in digital format.

The real estate market observatory

About 340.000 surveying datasheets containing information related to the characters of buildings in 1.280 municipalities

More than 180.000 real estate quotations related to 31.000 homogeneous surveying zones, quotations worked out for 17 building typologies and concerning all the municipalities (about 8100) over the whole national territory

The zones cartographic representation aimed at spatial location and geo-referencing information

Appraisal services. The Agency provides technical appraisal consulting services, mainly for Public Administrations, free of charge or upon payment, on the basis of ad hoc covenants.

Services

Agenzia del Territorio is steadily engaged in developing on line services in order to assure an increasingly better accessibility and usability for the final user. The Agency is always paying attention to customer satisfaction and regularly surveys it. The proposed suggestions are used for planning the development of services. Moreover, the Agency takes part in the project “Mettiamoci la faccia”, a testing promoted by the Minister of the Public Administration and Innovation. By means of emoticons, the Agency will be able to continuously measure the user’s satisfaction level about on line services.

Information technology and security

The architecture of the Agenzia del Territorio’s IT system consists of a centralized electronic data processing (EDP) centre connected to the peripheral systems located at the provincial offices. All the information processed by each provincial office are weekly stored also in a central system. This useful back up enables users to access to updated data also through the on line channel.

From a security point of view, in order to minimize possible risks for the information stored, Agenzia del Territorio takes physical, logical and organizational/procedural security measures. The central Access Control System validates the identity of all the users and controls their authorizations.

All the users are then registered in the central system with a specific level of authorization that allows each one to access the requested services.

Preventing and fighting tax evasion

The Agency actively works for taxable base recovering, acting to reduce tax evasion and avoidance cases related to cadastral situations lacking of updating. To this end Agenzia del Territorio has strengthened its technical controls, resulting in significant yield recoveries. This activity is mainly carried out by means of the following so called “high fiscal value” actions

• the finding out of buildings never declared for cadastral registration through overlapping of cadastral maps with high definition ortophotos
• the finding out of buildings that lost the characters to be assessed as rural ones also by means of a mutual check with the enterprises register data base
• upon request of municipalities, the partial revision of classification (made for the purpose of cadastral valuation) of the private real estate urban units located in municipal cadastral zones where the ratio between the average market value and the related average cadastral value diverges significantly from the ratio concerning the municipal cadastral zones as a whole
• the revision of classification for individual real estate urban units, where building works have been carried out, as a consequence of the request from municipalities to the owners to fulfil their obligation
• the new classification of real estate urban units previously included in group “E” categories (stations for transport services by road, by sea, by air, by rail, underground), except the E/7 and E/8
• the changes in classification of real estate urban units, previously included in F3 (real estate units under construction) or F4 (real estate units whose final use is still to be decided) fictitious categories, that have become usable and therefore can be classified in the valuable categories of the Building Cadastre.

International activities

In order to better represent the cadastral issues towards the E.U. institutions, Agenzia del Territorio has always assured its active and continuous participation in the Permanent Committee on Cadastre in the E.U., association that joins together the E.U. Member States cadastral official institutions.

Besides being a founder Member, Agenzia del Territorio held again the Committee presidency in the second half of 2008, promoting significant actions aiming at increasing the knowledge of the main characters of the different cadastral and real estate rights registration systems in force in the E.U., as requirement to foster the best practices possible sharing. Moreover, as from 2009 a representative of Agenzia del Territorio joined the Bureau of the Working Party on Land Administration, body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe acting in the field of land administration.

Agenzia del Territorio, besides supplying specialized consulting services under European Union or World Bank funded international projects, takes also interest in implementing cooperation projects as a consequence of direct bilateral agreements with Countries interested in the technical and technological innovations already in use in Italy.