Metavoles: What to Watch in Greece’s Digital Boundary Corrections

Since 18 September 2026, corrections to a property’s boundaries, area and position in the Hellenic Cadastre are filed online, through the metavoles platform. The procedure is faster. The time to react is shorter.

The framework is set by Articles 7 to 10 of Law 5142/2024, decision 440/9/26.08.2026 of the Hellenic Cadastre board (Government Gazette B’ 5454, 8 September 2026) and the transitional rules in Article 29 of Law 5321/2026. What do they mean in practice?

If a neighbour’s application is served on you, you have 30 days to consent or to file reasoned objections through the platform. If you do not respond, your consent is presumed. A plain “I disagree” is not enough: objections need evidence, meaning title deeds and a survey, so bring in an engineer in the first days. Silence costs later too. An appeal to the Cadastre’s second-level review body is open only to those who objected in time. Everyone else is left with an appeal to the Cadastral Judge, within two months of being notified of the decision.

For now, the application is served by a court bailiff. Once automated digital service is activated, the notice will arrive in the citizen’s digital mailbox, with an alert to the email or mobile number you have declared in the National Communication Registry, and you will be presumed to have read it after 10 working days. Keep your details current, especially if you live abroad. And respond even if you agree: at this stage, decisions are sent to the email address declared by those who responded.

If you are the applicant, you need a survey diagram of the geometric changes, prepared by an engineer. You must serve the application on the affected neighbours within 20 days, or it is rejected as inadmissible, and for now that means a bailiff you appoint. There is a shorter route. If the neighbours have already consented, by a notarial declaration, a signed solemn declaration or through the platform, no service is needed. If a neighbour is the Greek State, the old procedure still applies.

If you are selling or buying, check the cadastral sheet first. The application is recorded on the sheet of the applicant’s property and of the properties it affects, so a neighbour’s application shows up there too. And once the decision is provisionally registered, no later entry is allowed on the property’s cadastral sheet until it becomes final. The appeal window alone is two months. Corrections need time before a sale, not in the middle of one.

Our read: faster corrections, shorter reaction times. Delfi Properties works with owners, sellers and buyers on the property side of these decisions, alongside their engineers and legal advisers.

What’s your read?

Sources: Law 5142/2024 (Government Gazette A’ 158, 4 October 2024), Articles 7 to 10 · Law 5321/2026 (Government Gazette A’ 114, 20 July 2026), Article 29 · Decision 440/9/26.08.2026 of the Hellenic Cadastre board (Government Gazette B’ 5454, 8 September 2026).

General information, not legal advice. Please consult a lawyer and an engineer about your own case.