Transcript Land Titling - University of Melbourne

Expert Meeting on Land
Administration SystemsPriorities in The Third World
University of Melbourne
9 –11 November 2005
Ian Lloyd
Director
Land Equity International
Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 1. Social Outcomes
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Land tenure security and asset
formation
– overlapping and fake titles
– cost of titling and subsequent
transactions (money and time)
– people see value
– parallel titling systems
– public education and empowerment
– dispute reduction (eg Laos)
Access to land and poverty
reduction
– LAS facilitating land reform in rural and
urban settings
– Housing
Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 2. Financial Outcomes
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Local Govt property based
taxation
– Property valuation base; completeness
and market value
– Equity in taxation
– Confidence
Transaction related fees and taxes
– land market movement and real prices
– returns offset the costs of initial land
titling infrastructure
– justify further investment
Returns on the Govt Estate
– market based sales and leases
Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 3. Economic Outcomes
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Efficient Land Markets
– formal vs informal land market
– contribution of property to national
accounts
– credit in urban and rural areas
– national and overseas investment
– transaction delays
– tax rates
Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 4. Institutional Outcomes
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Efficiency
– one cadastre maintained not three
– cost of titling and subsequent transactions
– parallel titling systems
– appropriate technology
Policy and Legal Reform
Institutional Strengthening (leadership,
capacity, transparency) and Good
Governance
– agencies of Government
– professions and academe
– civil society and business
– politicians
Key Interventions Required to Address the Priority
Outcomes 1 : (“The Crown Jewels”)
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Reliable parcel descriptions and uniform mapping / charting
(national co-ordinate system)
Functional land transaction processing at accessible points
(One Stop Shops)
Responsive land records system
Accelerated titling on whole of jurisdiction basis at acceptable
unit cost to govt and agreeable price to beneficiaries
Community mobilisation
Institutional organisation for change (laws, regulations, new
skills, new staff) and suitable reward systems
Key Interventions Required to Address the Priority
Outcomes 2 : (“The Crown Jewels”)
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Low tax on subsequent registrations to get people into the
habit of registering all transactions
Basic valuation system to encourage true declaration of price
and for transaction taxes
Collect and make land market information available
(“informed markets are efficient markets”)
Market based valuations for equity across property classes
Cadastral map as a basis for real property taxation
Post titling services for asset leverage
Key Interventions Required to Address the Priority
Outcomes 3 : (“The Crown Jewels”)
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Approach
– local ownership of change (govt, professions, academe, political level)
– tiers of govt
– stakeholder involvement and empowerment
– appreciation of the institutional cultures of the main agencies
– capacity building (education, training, research) in long term and short term to meet
the needs (not for its own value)
– mainstreaming
– appropriate technology
– accountability (reporting, stakeholders)
– policy development responsive, engaging stakeholders and integrated with lessons
from operations
– legal reform with political support
Pace of Change in Land Administration in the Third World
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Pace of Change is so important
to successful interventions
Speed is relative
Lands agencies conservative
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