Who owns a parcel?

The register is public

The Netherlands keeps public registers of facts that matter for the legal status of registered property, such as land and homes. The Key Register of Land Registry gives access to those registers, among other things through the cadastral reference and the name of the owner. As a result, anyone can find out who owns a parcel or who holds rights over it.

Ownership of a home or land passes by a notarial deed of transfer, followed by its registration in the public registers. Only after registration is the buyer the owner. The register therefore follows the notaries’ deeds.

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Requesting ownership information

You can order ownership information (eigendomsinformatie) online from Kadaster for a parcel, apartment, garage or parking space. You search by address or parcel number. It shows who the owner (entitled party) is, who may use all or part of it, which restrictions apply, such as monument status, whether there is a ground lease, the registered area (not for apartments) and, if known, the sale price in the last deed of sale.

Ownership information costs €3.70 in Kadaster’s web shop (2026 fee); a certified paper copy costs €22.25. Mortgages and attachments are not included. For those there is mortgage information, also from €3.70. You can view your own data and the map of your own parcel free of charge with DigiD through MijnOverheid.

Fictional example: you want to know who owns the strip of land next to your garden. Find the parcel on this map and note the cadastral reference. Use it to order ownership information from Kadaster. If you later want to buy the strip, the notary will need the same reference.

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Searching by name is restricted

As a private individual you cannot look up online at Kadaster which parcels a particular person owns. You search by property: an address or a parcel number. A list of properties in a person’s name is a business product, available only to customers with a Mijn Kadaster subscription. Notaries and bailiffs can search by name in some situations.

Public does not mean you may use the data for any purpose. Kadaster does not supply personal information for commercial activities such as direct marketing and profiling. People under official protection, and members of some professions, can have their personal data shielded.

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Why this map shows no owners

To protect privacy, Kadaster does not offer personal data from the BRK and the public registers as open data. Perceelkaarten uses only open data. We therefore show no owners, sale prices or mortgages, and offer no search by person.

A parcel is also not the same as a property. One owner can have several parcels, and one parcel can have several entitled parties, for example with a ground lease or apartment rights. The addresses on this map are linked spatially. Do not infer from an address or building on this map who the owner is.

Sometimes actual ownership differs from the register, for example through prescription (verjaring). Kadaster does not track whether boundaries change through prescription and cannot tell whether someone has become an owner that way. A notary can look into it for you. If that does not settle it, you can go to court.

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