NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2008
Much is happening on Skopelos. We will keep you updated on the interesting developments via this newsletter and we hope you will find this site full of useful information.
(Updated on Wednesday the 10th of September)
“I had the time of my life making this movie” said Pierce Brosnan. He, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Julie Walters and many more stayed on Skopelos for more than a month last year to shoot Mamma Mia! We met a couple in the local cinema of Skopelos who had seen the movie in England and came over to find all the locations. They were quick!!!!
Go to our photos page to see some of the Skopelos locations.
QUESTION TIME FOR FOREIGNERS.
The Mayors office has special hours during the week when foreigners on the island can visit and ask questions. The days are Tuesday and Thursday between 10.00 and 12.00 hours.
THE KTIMATOLOGIO (LAND REGISTRY)
The Ktimatologio is a modern and better organized public registry for titles of all kinds of immovable property in Greece. Not every place in Greece has until now the new land registry office yet. In fact, most towns and villages in Greece still have their “House of Mortgages” (called Hypothykophylakion), which is the old public registry, an office which has ensured and continues to ensure everybody’s rights over immovable property.
The land registry office is a data base of legal and technical information and descriptions for the accurate assessment of real estate property in Greece. It ensures legal security and certainty regarding immovable property rights and obligations, so that every person of good faith is protected if he/she gives faith to the registrations.
In some areas in Greece, where the land registry has been organized up to its final stage, every transaction, sale, purchase, mortgage etc. on real estate is ONLY registered in this land registry (e.g. Chalkida, some places in the Athens area). In theory, all real estate owners SHOULD have already declared and registered their property with the local land registry, where it already exists.
Home owners obliged to enter their properties in the new land register must pay an additional 35 euros if they bought their house with a bank loan, this was announced by officials.
This charge is in addition to the 35 euros that property owners are already obliged to pay Ktimatologio SA, the company set up to create the new land register.
We will inform you when properties need to be registered on Skopelos.