Property ID Card Now Free via eKatastar: 33,416 Issued
Serbia's Republic Geodetic Authority on October 20 made the document available free of charge on its portal, not only at cadastre counters.
The Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ) announced on October 20, 2026 that the “Personal ID Card of Your Property” document can now also be downloaded in electronic form, free of charge, through the eKatastar portal. Until now it was available only at cadastre counters, and according to the authority’s figures, 33,416 such documents have been issued in Serbia in total.
The electronic copy is an official RGZ document with a digital seal, just like the paper one. A printed version can still be picked up at the counters, also free of charge.
What exactly changes for property owners?
The document gives an overview of the basic data on a property owned by a citizen, all in one place. Until now, getting it meant a trip to the real estate cadastre office, and from October 20 that is no longer necessary. The authority says the document is issued without waiting and without extra costs.
There is one limitation: the electronic copy can be downloaded only for a property registered in the name of the person making the request.
RGZ describes the path to the document in four steps:
- on the RGZ Digital Services Portal (portal.rgz.gov.rs), select the eKatastar section and log in to your account
- anyone without an account can open one on the portal or sign in through eGradjanin
- in the “My Properties” section, select the property
- clicking the “Personal ID Card of Your Property” option downloads the document
How many documents have been issued so far?
For October 20, RGZ gave a figure of 33,416 issued documents. All of them were issued when the document could be obtained only at a counter, since the electronic version began to be issued only today.
That figure can be compared with what the authority said earlier. Acting director Dalibor Babic said at the start of October that about 18,000 copies had been issued since September 17, when the document became free, and that citizens’ savings were estimated at no less than 180,000 euros. The difference from today’s figure is about 15,400 documents. That is our own calculation, because the earlier number was rounded and the authority did not say which exact day it referred to.
Before September 17, citizens paid between 1,000 and 6,000 dinars for data from the cadastre records, depending on the service. We have written about that change before, as well as about the GeoSrbija app, which lets people view cadastre data on a phone.
Where did the idea of a digital version come from?
The authority says it introduced the novelty on the basis of proposals from citizens, which arrive through the “Directly to the Director” channel. RGZ opened that channel at the end of August, when it published a dedicated address for reporting rude or irresponsible conduct by cadastre officials.
RGZ stressed that the goal, as Babic announced earlier, is for citizens to reach important information more simply and without unnecessary costs. The authority did not say how many copies it expects to issue electronically, or whether it plans to offer other documents from the real estate records through the portal.
