Step 3: Extract data from the deeds registry

For all erven in the project site, extract existing records of property ownership from the deeds registry. If any properties within the project site have already been transferred to individual property owners, these properties would obviously be excluded from the titling project.

Maturity Roadmap: suggestion for improvement

At present, municipalities and provinces purchase deeds data from private sector providers at significant cost. Ideally, housing authorities should have access to this data directly from the deeds registry via an API that would allow data to be requested and extracted in a specified format. This would enable automated uploading of the data into a database.