The property of foreigners: challenges
- How much data is collected by your national land registry about a foreigner when making a real estate transaction?
The Land Registry does not collect any data on the foreigner. The land register is kept for the property and not for the owner. A foreigner is treated as any other owner of real estate when registering him/her in the land register. First name, surname, parents’ names and PESEL number, if they have it in Poland.
2. Do you use a uniform person identification number?
2.1. If Yes, do you use persons assigned number or make your own national number?
PESEL- Universal Electronic Population Register System – a central data set maintained in Poland by the minister competent for informatisation under the Population Register Act. The register is used to collect basic information identifying the identity and administrative-legal status of Polish citizens and foreigners residing in the Republic of Poland.
3. Do all State information systems use the one/same person identification number?
Yes.
