Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel, Grenville Barnes (1995):
Assessment of the Praedial Property Registration System in Peru

E. Inability to Decentralize Lima Region Office

The Registro Predial is designed to be an independent, decentralized office. And while it has slowly expanded its geographical jurisdiction within Lima region, it has not been able to decentralize its operation within the region with the exception of a limited-service office in Cañete.

When the ILD was able to obtain international financing for its property formalization program, it channeled funds to the Registro Predial and supported its activities. This permitted the Registro Predial to extend its geographical jurisdiction by sending teams of registrars and verifiers to areas beyond the City of Lima. Usually these were rural areas where properties already had title documents, and often they were already registered in the Registro de Propiedad Inmueble. A temporary office would be set up, usually in a provincial government office or a cooperative federation office, to collect title documents and encourage owners to transmit their registration from the Registro de Propiedad Inmueble to the Registro Predial.

Once the international project was finished, the ILD withdrew its support and the Registro Predial lost many staff persons. As a result, it was not able to set up permanent and decentralized offices outside the City of Lima. [FN 28] Therefore, land owners living outside the City of Lima and now registered in the Registro Predial must travel to Lima for any transaction. The fact that there are branch offices of the Registro de Propiedad Inmueble in towns within the Lima region exacerbates the situation even further. This means that the decentralized Registro Predial model, and associated linkages to manage such a structure, has not been established in Peru.