Concòrdia files around fifty amendments to Andorra Property Registry bill

Concòrdia has submitted around fifty amendments to the bill establishing Andorra's Property Registry, aiming to broaden transparency over property ownership and relieve citizens of repeated administrative steps.

The parliamentary group argues that the public should be able to learn who owns a given property. Its proposed mechanism, modelled on the Swiss system, would allow any citizen to consult the basic data of a finca — including the owner's identity — by paying a fee for each property looked up. According to the party, the charge would safeguard access to information while discouraging queries driven only by curiosity.

Concòrdia is also calling for periodic publication of statistics on properties, ownership and transactions, without identifying individuals, to give a clearer picture of the national real estate market.

On administrative procedure, the group wants data already held by public administrations to be incorporated and updated automatically, so that individuals do not have to submit the same documents more than once. "Providing for electronic procedures is insufficient if citizens are still asked to repeat the same steps," the party said, adding that available data should be used with the necessary legal checks.

The amendments would make registration of primary-residence rental contracts in the Property Registry mandatory, with registrations, modifications and terminations automatically notified to SICAR, the rental contracts information system. Concòrdia also seeks reciprocal communication with the comuns to resolve discrepancies with cadastral records, with the aim of saving citizens time and preventing the administration from collecting and verifying the same information several times.

The group questions the wisdom of approving the law before the regulation of real rights — covering property, usufruct and mortgages — is in place, which it considers indispensable for the registry to operate. It says that regulation will not be completed during the current legislature, meaning the registry cannot enter into service during this mandate even if the law passes, and warns that approving the registry rules now could force them to be reopened later to align with those definitions.

Concòrdia also asks why an instrument that cannot yet function should be treated as delivered, noting that the planned regularization process could stretch to between eight and ten years. "Passing the law cannot serve to present as fulfilled a commitment that has yet to become a reality," the party said.

The bill is in the middle of its parliamentary passage. Initially promoted by the Grup Parlamentari Demòcrata in April 2026, it cleared its first consideration stage in June of the same year with the unanimous support of the chamber. Its purpose is to modernise Andorra's property system through an electronic, mandatory registry, which is scheduled to enter into force from next year.