Armenia drafts rules for two property databases handling 243.9 thousand registrations a year
Armenia’s Cadastre Committee, the agency that keeps the state real estate register, has drafted rules for two state property databases. The databases store property rights and restrictions, and the rules set out their structure, data sources, protection and archiving.
According to the draft government decisions (Unified State Real Estate Cadastre database, electronic system for submitting title documents), published on the e-draft.am portal on October 26, the decisions will take effect the day after official publication. Public consultation runs until November 16.
What the rules set out
The cadastre database will have five modules: document management, cadastre textual, workflow, system administrator and map. On the 0–3 scale of the international ISO/IEC 27001 standard, it is assigned security class C2I2A3: medium confidentiality and integrity, and the highest availability. Data will be supplied by the state population register, notaries, the Judicial Department, the Compulsory Enforcement Service, the Central Bank and the treasury.
The electronic title documents system is intended for state and local government bodies, notaries and bodies that impose restrictions. It consists of three modules (legal documents, restrictions and system administrator) and is assigned class C2I2A2. Data is entered through the system interface after logging in via the “Yes em” (“I am”) national identification platform, through an API, or through the ADEL data exchange layer in XML or JSON format.
Both regulations provide for rejecting incorrect or inconsistent data with notice to the submitting body, as well as regular backup and disaster recovery. The ISO/IEC 27701 standard will apply to personal data protection.
The cost estimate for the electronic system, the justification notes, will be prepared once work on rolling out the population register database is completed.
Transactions in numbers
According to the Cadastre Committee’s annual analysis, Armenia registered 243.9 thousand property rights transactions in 2025, down 1.6% from 2024 (247.9 thousand). Sales accounted for 59.7 thousand (+3.4%), pledges for 35.8 thousand (+7.5%), including 11.1 thousand mortgages (+32.2%), and inheritance for 41 thousand. Foreign citizens acquired more than 2 thousand properties, up 27% year on year.
In August 2026, 23.7 thousand transactions were recorded, up 26.4% from August last year and the highest for any August since 2016 (August analysis). Mortgage pledges grew 43.6% to 1,308.
From paper to online deals
Since 2025, the Cadastre Committee no longer accepts paper documents from citizens, and its budget that year was AMD 3.98 billion (about $10.28 million). Since July 2026, a property sale contract can be concluded fully online without a notary, and the resulting ownership right is registered automatically. The first such deal took place on September 10 (Cadastre Committee).
The drafts stem from section 6.2 of the Government Programme for 2021–2026, under which the government committed to a fundamental overhaul of the quality of public services.
