What is the kartela e pasurise, Albania's property card? (2026)

Every property registered in Albania has exactly one kartela, kept by ASHK on paper and digitally. The law prescribes its content: geographic position, area, kind of property, the owner's identification, the act from which the title arose, third-party rights with the acts they arise from, and the property's value.

The current model, set by VKM 782/2020, arranges that content in sections: A the property data, B the title (who owns it and how it was acquired), B/1 preliminary registrations, C real rights of third parties that do not restrict disposal, D the rights and acts that do restrict disposal, E other informative data, F internal notes that are not public.

Two of the eight purchase checks are answered by the kartela alone. Section B tells you whether the person selling is the registered owner and how they acquired the title; Section D tells you whether a hypothec, a seizure or the statutory mortgage of a legalised home blocks the sale. A legalised home can carry such a statutory mortgage, and it must be released before you pay.

A kartela ages fast: an entry can appear any day, so a copy from last month proves little. Order it fresh, days before the preliminary contract and again before the deed. The notary re-verifies the register at the deed, which is your second safety net, not a replacement for reading it yourself.

A copy of the kartela costs 1,500 lek at ASHK, ordered through e-Albania; the full pre-purchase set - ownership certificate, kartela copy and online legal-status check - costs 5,500 lek together and arrives in days.

The owner orders it themselves, or your lawyer does with a power of attorney. If a seller hesitates to show a fresh kartela, treat that as an answer in itself. How to read each section line by line is on our title-check page, and the whole sequence of checks on the verification checklist.