30,000 estates registered in foreign names in Algeria

The State’s estate general department reported that 30,000 real-estates are registered in foreign names. Of them, 55 percent belong to French. The census is still carried out while Pieds-noirs lodged 125 complains to recover their properties.

An official at the General Department Thursday told Echorouk the high number of real-estates registered in foreign names is due to the Law 66/102. It stipulates to join foreigners’ properties to the State’s estates.

The Department took a census of 1 million and 800,000 hectares of state-owned land and settled their situation definitively. The operation is still underway and is expected to be completed in 2016.

According to the same source, the General Department plans to end anarchy in real-estate market which has been dominated by “barons” for years.

“A project will be presented to use new technologies to take census of lands,” said the same source.