The registration of a sale contract at the land registry creates an encumbrance upon the immovable property, in favour of the buyer. The right created by the encumbrance follows the chronological ...

A blockchain-based land registry designed to mitigate ownership disputes in Afghanistan has been launched. The open-source solution was developed by blockchain company LTO Network in tandem with two ...

Blockchains are most commonly associated with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, but the largely tamper-proof shared-ledger technology is also very useful for keeping records of things other than ...

Blockchain—the technology that underpins Bitcoin—is to be tested on Sweden's land registry to see if it helps speed up property deals in the country. The Swedish National Land Survey (Lantmäteriet) ...

The New South Wales government is looking to make property conveyancing electronic, turning to distributed ledger technology as a means to make the practice cheaper, more reliable, and more secure.