Standard acceptance of inheritance
One inheritance, clean title. You get the certificates, sign the acceptance through a power of attorney, file the tax return and register it at the cadastre.
Lawyer in Greece, accountant for the tax return
Find out what your family's property in Greece actually needs.
Answer a few questions about who passed away, who the heirs are and what the cadastre says. You'll see which procedure applies, the papers you need, roughly what it'll cost and every deadline that's running. If you want help, we'll put you in touch with a lawyer or cadastral mediator in the right area.
Start the free checkFree, no sign-up. Up to date with the 2026 rules, including the new unknown-owner procedure that opened on 16 September 2026.
- 3.45M
- property rights listed as “unknown owner” in the Greek cadastre
- 12 months
- to file the inheritance tax return if the heir lives abroad
- 31 Dec
- of the 8th year after the local office opened is the last day to fix a wrong entry
- 16 Sep 2026
- the new inheritance law and the unknown-owner mediation came into force
How it works
- 1
Tell us about the death, the heirs and the property. It takes about five minutes and you don't need any documents yet.
- 2
See which track you're on. That could be a standard acceptance, a skipped generation, an unknown-owner fix, possession mediation or a dispute, and you get the costs, documents and dates for it.
- 3
If you want help, ask to be matched. We pass your file to a lawyer or registered cadastral mediator we've checked, in the property's court district.
The five tracks
Skipped generation
The property is still in the name of someone who died before your parent did. Each inheritance in the chain needs its own acceptance and tax return, one after the other.
Lawyer experienced in chain successions
Unknown-owner correction
The cadastre shows no owner, but the family has the title deeds. An application the State consents to, or a petition to the cadastral judge, gets it put in your name. There's a fixed deadline for this and it's running out.
Property lawyer plus a surveyor
Possession mediation (article 61)
There's no usable title, but the family has used the property for 20 years. The new mandatory mediation, run by a registered cadastral mediator, can recognise you as owner through extraordinary adverse possession.
Cadastral mediator, lawyer, surveyor
Dispute with a registered holder
Someone else is registered as owner. The only way to change that is a lawsuit filed before the correction deadline. Expect to go to court.
Litigation lawyer
Why I built this
I'm a software engineer in Athens, and Kliros started with a property in my own family. There was no fight over it and nobody was suing anybody. The problem was simpler and more annoying than that. I couldn't find anyone to tell me which of six or seven procedures we actually needed, what it would cost, or which deadlines we'd already missed. Every professional I asked sounded sure of themselves, and each one was talking about a different procedure.
So I looked into how common this is, and found that 3.45 million property rights in the Greek cadastre are listed under an unknown owner. That changed how I saw it. It wasn't just bad luck in my family. The system was failing people all over the country, and a lot of those families left Greece a generation or two ago. They don't have a Greek tax number or a power of attorney, and nobody told them there was a correction deadline with a fixed end date.
What it costs
In detailCase check
FreeThe full answer. Your legal track, the cost range, the tax estimate, every deadline that's running and the documents you'll be asked for.
Case file
€49Everything above, put together in one document you can hand to a lawyer, notary or mediator. It's in English and Greek, ready to print, and laid out the way Greek professionals are used to seeing a case.
Expert review
€189A licensed Greek lawyer or registered cadastral mediator from the property's district reads your case file first. Then you get forty minutes with them, and their opinion in writing afterwards.
We don't take a cut of your case. Professionals in our network pay a flat monthly fee to be listed for the areas they cover, and nothing per client. The Greek lawyers' Code of Conduct takes a hard line on sharing fees with middlemen, and this way nobody has a reason to push you towards the expensive option.