The land cadastre and the real-estate register say who the owner is, but only when the owner is a legal entity: the state, a municipality, a company, a parish. Every private owner in the register carries the same marker with no name. So this analysis counts not private people but named owners, and the private share is what remains.
This is not concealment but a property of the register. Two parcels of the same person cannot be linked in it, so nobody can say from public data how much land the largest private owner holds.
Land by owner
Of 20,862 km² of parcels, the state holds 3,972 km² (19.0%), municipalities 5.3%, the Catholic Church 599 km² (2.9%) and companies 1.5%. Private and unknown owners hold the remainder, 70.9%.
Private owners carry no name in the register, so their share is what is left after the named owners, and it includes unidentified holders. A parcel counts once per owner class across the two registers.
Source: GURS, AJPES · bloki.si
The largest named owners
After the state (3,975 km²), the largest named landowner is Nadškofija Ljubljana with 291 km², more than the whole City of Ljubljana (275 km²). Next come Občina Bovec (252 km²), Občina Bohinj and Škofija Novo Mesto.
Church land is mostly forest: 75%. 7.1 km² is developable. Religious communities own 159 dwellings.
Named legal entities by their business-register name, weighted by co-ownership share. The Republic of Slovenia is off the scale. The register does not say how an owner acquired the land.
Source: GURS, AJPES · bloki.si
Where their land lies
Slovenia's relief in 500 m cells, heights exaggerated. The colour is the share of the cell's parcel area held by the chosen owner. State forests lie in the Alps, around Kočevje and Snežnik; church land is concentrated in the upper Savinja valley, at Bled and in Bohinj.
The 3D view is not available here; the map below shows the same shares by municipality.
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By municipality
The share of the municipality's parcel area held by the chosen owner. Hover over a municipality.
Public housing
The state, municipalities and public housing funds hold 3.0% of 909,675 dwellings. Of the 520,848 dwellings built in 1946–1990 that still stand, 2.7% are public: most were bought by their tenants in 1991. Of the dwellings built in 2021–2026, 6.2% are public.
Today's owner, not the builder: funds also buy, and some public dwellings may be registered without a named owner, so the share is a lower bound.
Source: GURS, AJPES · bloki.si
Empty land for housing
We counted as an empty housing plot a parcel of at least 2,000 m², mostly designated for housing, with no building in the cadastre, and not mostly under a road. Without the last condition the roads and paths inside housing zones, mostly municipal, would count as "empty land". There are 4,046 ha of them, and 13% are public: municipalities hold 433 ha, the state 80 ha, public funds 31 ha.
In Ljubljana the public sector holds 51 ha against private owners' 128 ha. Among the six largest towns the public sector holds more than private owners only in Koper (39 against 27 ha); in Kranj it is 23 against 32 ha.
A plot of at least 2,000 m², mostly designated for housing, with no building in the cadastre and not mostly under a road (OSM). A screen, not a list of land for sale: a plot can be in a permit procedure, under a detailed plan or a garden.
Source: GURS, AJPES · bloki.si
Ljubljana: empty housing plots
Every empty housing plot in the City of Ljubljana, coloured by the owner class holding the largest share. No plot is labelled with an owner's name.
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§ How it is calculated
Owners. Parcel ownership sits in two registers (EV and KN) whose owner keys never match. A parcel therefore counts once per owner class: the larger of the two summed shares, at most the whole parcel. The class comes from the legal form in AJPES's business register. The Catholic Church is a rule over the names of religious entities (parishes, dioceses, orders, monasteries and their charities).
The private remainder. Private owners are the parcel area left after the named owners, and it includes unidentified holders. Because some parcels are claimed by two classes at once, the classes sum to about one per cent more than the parcel area; shares are of the sum.
Empty plots. A plot is dropped when more than half of its area lies within 6 m of an OpenStreetMap road. OSM is a floor: an unmapped path stays in, so some roads are still among the "empty".
What the register does not say. It does not say how an owner acquired the land: three quarters of the entries carry the same 2022 register-migration date, so nothing here dates denationalisation. It does not say who built a dwelling, only who owns it today.
Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?
Ownership is available through the server only as far as the register allows: for legal entities and in aggregate, never for an individual.
- No
Who owns this flat or this parcel?
The server does not name the owner of a single property. Private owners carry no name in the register, and legal entities are reachable only through their holdings.
data_limitations - Yes
What does a given parish, company or municipality own, and where?
A legal entity's name to an identifier, then its holdings by municipality and kind of property.
find_ownerowner_holdings - Yes
Which institutions hold dwellings or land in my municipality?
Totals by owner class with the ten largest named, and the share of owners that is visible at all.
institutional_owners - Partly
Where is empty land for housing?
Parcels by designated use with no building, in a municipality or around an address. It does not name the owner, so it says nothing about whether a plot is for sale.
find_parcels - No
How did the Church get its land? Was it returned in denationalisation?
How land was acquired is not recorded; entry dates are mostly the register's migration date.
data_limitations