In 2025, ownership rights over 364,136 real estate properties across the country were registered in the state registry. During the past year, electronic registration of land consolidation works covering 565,000 hectares was completed and integrated into the Electronic Land Cadastre Accounting Information System.

A press conference was held by the State Cadastre and Real Estate Registry public legal entity under the State Service on Property Issues under the Ministry of Economy (hereinafter – SCRER ple) on the work carried out in 2025.

Speaking about the successful economic reforms implemented under the leadership of the Head of State, Nigar Alimova, Director of the Board of SCRER ple, stated that reforms in the field of real estate registration continued to yield positive results in 2025. Activities continued in the areas of real estate registration and cadastre, maintenance of the address registry, land consolidation and the implementation of specialized (sector-specific) geodetic works, as well as electronic land cadastre accounting, land consolidation, and land research in the liberated territories, along with other related measures.

In 2025, ownership rights for 364,136 real estate properties were registered in the state register. Of this total, 70,596 (19.4%) were initial registrations and 293,540 (80.6%) were re-registrations. Among the properties for which ownership rights were registered, 186,595 were land plots, 92,888 were apartments, 71,688 were individual residential and garden houses, 12,122 were non-residential premises, 728 were property-complex type enterprises, 112 were multi-storey residential buildings, and 3 related to perennial plantations.

Over the past year, technical inventories were conducted for 262,342 real estate properties and technical documents (passports, plans, and measurement records) were prepared. In addition, 63,836 mortgage agreements and 7,419 encumbrances (leases and usage rights) were registered in the state register, and 285,104 certificates were issued from the state register regarding property descriptions, registered ownership rights, and restrictions (encumbrances) on those rights.

During the reporting period, state land cadastre activities across the country and in the territories liberated from occupation were continued, including electronic land cadastre accounting and the assignment of addresses.

During 2025, electronic registration of land consolidation works covering 565,000 hectares was completed and integrated into the Electronic Land Cadastre Accounting Information System (ELCAIS).

Over the reporting year, data covering 436,000 hectares of land and 231,000 hectares of geobotanical survey results were processed and uploaded into ELCAIS as components of the land cadastre, soil, salinization, and geobotanical maps were prepared and corresponding reports were produced.

In the reporting period, 311 transport infrastructure facilities in cities, district centres and towns, and 3,299 facilities in rural settlements were named by the relevant executive authorities and entered into the Address Registry Information System (ARIS). Across the country's districts and cities, a total of 56,475 entries and 71,366 internal address records uploaded to ARIS were quality-checked and confirmed.

The legislative framework for real estate registration was improved in 2025. Presidential decrees — including the decree on amendments to the Decree “On Certain Issues Regarding the Regulation of Land Relations” dated 7 October 2021, and the decree approving the “List of documents confirming the acquisition of rights over real estate objects acquired or created until the entry into force of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan ‘On the State Register of Real Estate’” — as well as laws on “Amendments to Certain Codes and Laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan,” amendments to the Law “On Mortgage,” and amendments to the laws “On State Duty” and “On the State Register of Real Estate” have been of significant importance for the formalization of property rights.

In the end, questions from media representatives were answered.