Valsts zemes dienests

What Valsts zemes dienests does

Valsts zemes dienests (VZD) is the State Land Service of Latvia, a direct administration institution under the Ministry of Justice founded in 1992 and headquartered in Riga. The agency holds the exclusive statutory mandate to maintain the State Land Cadastre, the State Address Register, the Restricted Areas Information System (ATIS), and to perform cadastral valuation of real property for taxation purposes. It serves a broad constituency of Latvian land owners, building and apartment owners, municipalities, licensed surveyors, notaries, court bailiffs, insolvency administrators, and other state institutions, operating 15 client service centers across the country in addition to online channels.

The service operates a platform-plus-services model centered on the Kadastrs.lv web portal and the GeoLatvija.lv unified geospatial portal. Core information systems include the Kadastra informācijas sistēma (Cadastral Information System) for textual and spatial cadastral data, ATIS for property encumbrance data, the Valsts adrešu reģistrs (State Address Register), and the Kadastrālā vērtēšana service for periodic property valuation. Supporting offerings encompass building and land cadastral surveying, high-detail topographic information, land reform administration, the unified building registration process, and a special data selection and processing service. Recent product launches in mid-2026 — historical photoplans on GeoLatvija.lv, the unified building registration service, and streamlined forest land valuation — illustrate ongoing digitization of service delivery.

VZD is funded primarily through the Latvian state budget under the Ministry of Justice and supplemented by regulated service fees (e.g., 29.37 EUR per information request object, 69.32 EUR per hour for special data processing, 33.97 EUR per hour for electronic data processing), while basic ATIS data and address register queries are offered free of charge via Kadastrs.lv. Leadership consists of Director General Vita Narnicka and two deputies, appointed by the Minister of Justice following Cabinet approval. The agency is engaged in EU INSPIRE directive implementation and broader international cooperation on geospatial data standards.

Name

Valsts zemes dienests

Legal name

Valsts zemes dienests

Website

https://vzd.gov.lv

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Valsts zemes dienests is a Latvian government state land service under the Ministry of Justice, operating the national land cadastre, property registration, cadastral valuation, address registry, and ATIS restricted-area data systems for citizens, municipalities, surveyors, and state institutions across Latvia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Land Administration Services

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Title Abstract and Settlement Offices (541191)

SIC

Real Estate (6500)

akta.pro primary industry

Property Tax & Municipal Lien Search Services (BPAJAOAJ)

Keywords

• Land cadastre services
• Property registration
• Geospatial data
• Address registry
• Land administration

Headquarters

HQ city

Riga

HQ country

Latvia

HQ region

Europe

Offices15 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Valsts zemes dienests is a Latvian state direct administration institution under the Ministry of Justice that maintains the national land cadastre, address register, cadastral valuation system, and restricted territory information system (ATIS). It provides registration, surveying, valuation, and geospatial data services for land, buildings, and premises through its online portal Kadastrs.lv, the GeoLatvija.lv geospatial platform, and 15 physical client service centers across Latvia.

Product overview

Valsts zemes dienests is a direct administration institution under the Justice Minister, responsible for state land administration in Latvia. The service operates a platform-plus-services model centered on the Kadastrs.lv web portal, which provides citizen and professional access to all cadastral data. Core information systems include the Kadastra informācijas sistēma (Cadastral Information System) managing textual and spatial data for all cadastral objects, the Apgrūtināto teritoriju informācijas sistēma (ATIS) for property encumbrance data, the Valsts adrešu reģistrs (State Address Register) for standardized addressing, and the Kadastrālā vērtēšana service for property valuation. Supporting services encompass building and land cadastral surveying, topographic information (GeoLatvija.lv), land reform implementation, and the unified building registration process. Fee-based services include special data extraction and ATIS data provision. The organization provides extensive self-service capabilities through the pieteikumi.vzd.gov.lv helpdesk platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kadastrs.lv: State Land Service portal providing online access to cadastre data, cadastral valuation information, and address registry services

Products and services

• Kadastrs.lv Portal

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ordnance Survey: UK national mapping agency with broader commercial data and licensing operations that overlaps with VZD's mapping and cadastral functions, but operates at significantly greater scale and with a more commercial revenue mix.

Direct peers

• State Enterprise Centre of Registers (Lithuania): Lithuanian state-owned enterprise maintaining real estate registers, cadastral data, and address information — analogous role within the Baltic region with overlapping service scope to VZD.
• IGN (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière): French national institute for geographical and forestry information, producing cadastral-relevant topographic and land data — a state-mandated European peer institution to VZD.
• BKG (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie): German federal agency for cartography and geodesy providing national geospatial reference data and surveying coordination — comparable to VZD in its state-mandated surveying and topographic mapping role.
• Kadaster (Netherlands): Dutch land registry and mapping agency providing cadastral data, property transactions, and national geographic information — a European peer delivering the same state-mandated land administration function as VZD.
• Lantmäteriet: Swedish national land survey, mapping, and land registration authority performing the same core functions as VZD — cadastral mapping, property registration, and geospatial data — for an adjacent Nordic/Baltic regional jurisdiction.
• Cadastre (DGFiP): French national cadastre operated under the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques — providing property registration and cadastral valuation services that directly parallel VZD's valuation-for-taxation and registration functions.
• National Land Survey of Finland (Maanmittauslaitos): Finnish state agency responsible for land surveying, cadastre, and geospatial data — directly comparable to VZD's Kadastra informācijas sistēma and address register functions in a similarly sized Northern European jurisdiction.
• Estonian Land Board (Maa-amet): Estonian national land registry and mapping authority operating under government mandate; functionally the closest Baltic peer given shared regional context, cadastral data structure, and digital-first service delivery orientation.

Others

• Regrid: US-based commercial parcel data and property intelligence platform that uses similar cadastral/mapping inputs but repackages them for downstream real estate users — adjacent enabling ecosystem rather than a direct state-authority competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

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