LAND PLOTS VALUATION IN LAND CONSOLIDATION IN SLOVAKIA: A NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH

Zlatica Muchová,Ľubomír Konc,František Petrovič

doi:10.3846/ijspm.2018.5221

Abstract

The spatial and functional rearrangement of a territory in the process of land consolidation (LC) requires the prior valuation of the land and comparison with the proposed state. This is one of the most difficult stages of the project. The official (information) price of agricultural land is at present determined on the basis of comparing the boundaries of land areas and spatial distribution of the soil-quality ecological units (SQEU). This procedure does not reflect the real value of land and leads to disagreements particularly with large differences in price levels in the neighborhood. Therefore, the authors suggest establishing pricing information using a multicriteria evaluation, into which enters SQEU (through a single price area for the projection unit) as well as the development factor and location factor. The methodological approaches and procedures for land valuation on agricultural land in the LC are illustrated by the example of the cadastral area of Skačany (in northwestern Slovakia). The authors argue that a new approach is more objective to the owners and simplifies the entire process in compliance with the criteria of proportionality.

Highlights

Land consolidation (LC) is a tool to achieve such a functional arrangement of territory to enable each landowner to dispose of their property, while respecting the principles of protection and the development of the landscape, the soil potential and other environmental components
The proposal could generate suitable material for the production of comparative studies that are rare, in Slovak conditions, see e.g. Jahanshiri, Buyong, and Shariff (2011), Demetriou (2016). In this contribution the authors focused on the possibility of reevaluating the current procedure for the valuation of plots and finding a new approach that would more realistically account for the benefits of a particular location
Specific procedures for the evaluation of plots on agricultural soil in LC are illustrated by an example from the cadastral area of Skačany

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Introduction

Land consolidation (LC) is a tool to achieve such a functional arrangement of territory to enable each landowner to dispose of their property, while respecting the principles of protection and the development of the landscape, the soil potential and other environmental components. The basic principle of land redistribution according to FAO (2003) is that each landowner shall be granted a property of an aggregate value that is the same (after deducting the landowners’ land contribution for infrastructure) as the value of the property owned prior to consolidation. Each land owner shall get land, so that the value of the land transferred is equal to the value of the land obtained (Lisec, Primožič, Ferlan, Šumrada, & Drobne, 2014). One of the fundamental principles of LC is that each participant has to get a rounded property with an equal area, and the same or very similar soil quality as the given land. Land valuation is the key and the most demanding operation of the entire LC procedure (Branković, Parezanović, & Simović, 2015)

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