For after the national elections in the spring, the “hot” issues of the mandatory electronic payment of rents and the operation of the Property Management Registry (MIDA) are being postponed, not only because of the technical problems that exist but also because of the inconvenience that the operation of the new “tool” would cause for 7 million property owners.
The payment of rents through the banking system will become mandatory on 1/7/2027 “in order for the system for cross-checking the relevant data with payment service providers to be completed and also for the required time to be given to owners and tenants to adapt smoothly to the new process,” as informed by the AADE.
MIDA is also getting a new extension, a development which is not unrelated to the technical failures, the mismatches between the different databases, and the problems in the interconnections.
Competent sources, however, stress that the postponement is not linked to abandonment of the plan, but to the need to give additional time so that the technical fronts can be closed before the final opening of the platform.
The choice to move the full implementation to after the elections, as also happened with the mandatory payment of rents through banks, is not unrelated to the long pre-election period that the country has already entered, sources maintain.
This is a system that will oblige millions of owners to check their property status and correct discrepancies in ATAK, KAEK, square meters, uses and leases. In other words, it could cause a new wave of requests, corrections and inconvenience at a particularly sensitive point in time.
The new “brake” comes after successive shifts of the original timetable. MIDA had been designed to be put into operation within the first quarter of 2026, with its activation then being moved to June and subsequently to July.
Along the way, the plan provided for a gradual start of the application from August and completion of the first phase by October. However, the problems that arose in the interconnections of the information systems and in the matching of the data did not allow even this timetable to be kept, leading to a new postponement of the full implementation.