DEEN
The land register (Kinnistusraamat) is kept by the land-registry department of Tartu County Court and operated, IT-wise, by RIK under the Ministry of Justice. It holds ownership, mortgages, servitudes and encumbrances on Estonian immovables. The largest consumer is the Chamber of Bailiffs (enforcement against real estate), followed by the Land Board (register/cadastre reconciliation) and notaries (authentication). Tightly integrated with the e-notary system: every property purchase is notarised and immediately entered in the register.
The land-register services fall into four clusters — property data (the core), person ownership, documents/deeds and proceedings/notary. Shares are daily averages over Dec 2025 – May 2026. Each cluster has its own detail page.
The most-used service endpoints across all four clusters, as requests per day. The cluster pill links to the detail page.
| # | Service | Cluster | Calls / day | Avg ms |
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How do the 1.06 M calls/day flow from the service clusters to the 16 largest consumers?
Morning peak, lunch dip and afternoon peak — the rhythm of notaries, bailiffs and the cadastre.
What the aggregate data reveals about Estonia's land register.
With about 419,000 calls per day the Chamber of Bailiffs and Trustees leads the field — it identifies attachable real estate. Land register and enforcement are directly wired together in Estonia.
Notar_Menetlusinfo takes about 16.2 seconds on average — the slowest service of all analysed registers. The operation involves multi-step transactions with locks and validations across several registers.
The Land and Spatial Development Board is a major user with about 205,000 calls per day — land register (who owns it) and cadastre (where, how large) are reconciled in real time.