(The Philippine Star) | Updated May 27, 2013 -
12:00am
MANILA,
Philippines - The Land Registration Authority (LRA) announced that it would
complete the upgrading of all Registries of Deeds (RD) offices by the end of
this year. This includes the renovation and refurbishment of all RD offices and
their connection to the LRA central office, to allow landowners gain nationwide
access to their land titles through the local RD in their area.
“The RD
offices had to be physically reconfigured because the computerization program
requires an environment that is modern to house all the computerized systems,
and also appealing to the transacting public,” LRA deputy administrator Ronald
Ortile said.
He said the
central office is now connected to 129 RDs, representing 92 percent of LRA’s
computerized transactions. Ortile also disclosed that 22.1 million titles have
been scanned, 21.2 million of them already encoded and saved at the LRA
database.
With the
refurbished RD offices in place, the landowners can now secure certified true
copies (CTC) of their land titles in any of the computerized RDs all over the
country. “They just need to go to the nearest computerized RD or Extension
Office to initiate the transaction,” said Ortile.
Ortile
explained that land owners could actually save time and money by using the
LRA’s anywhere-to-anywhere (A2A) service. He said “If a client based in Quezon
City wants to obtain a CTC of a land title stored in and RD located in Davao
City, all the client needs to do is to go to the Quezon City RD and request for
such document. He will actually save on travel and accommodation costs.”
Ortile said
banks and financial institutions can benefit from the A2A because the service
makes land transactions more efficient, with many of them already conducting
representations with the LRA to set up extension offices in their respective
offices to avail themselves of the A2A service.
Land owners
and financial institutions can also check the status of their transactions
online through the LRA online tracking system (LOTS) found in their website,
www.lra.gov.ph.
LRA
encourages the public to know more about their computerized services by calling
their main office at (02) 925-6609.
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