The figure, considering the market situation as on 1 July 2010, has been lowered from the EUR 160bn test estimate released in October last year and takes into account the proposals for reevaluations that owners were able to file only until now.

Based on the census carried out between 2006 and 2009, presumably as part of plans for a real estate tax that appear to be shelved for now, the data - owner and estimated value - is publicly available on the internet.

Dusan Mitrovic of GURS explained for the press that houses account for the largest share of the total value, around 36%, and are followed by apartments, public buildings and other property.

He added that houses also contributed the most to the lowering of the total estimate, as their value went down from EUR 60bn to EUR 50bn after the reevaluation.

The relative changes were largest with farm and forest plots, where the most complaints were filed and appraisal models were adjusted as a result.

GURS plans to look at the changes on the market now, indexation will however only follow if the established value difference exceeds 10%.

Mitrovic believes the change between July 2010 and 1 January 2012 will not exceed 10%, but does not exclude this possibility in the future. The entire appraisal procedure will be repeated every four years, while indexation will be carried out in-between.

Like in autumn 2010, owners of real estate are also expected to be notified of the value of their property by post. However, GURS head Ales Seliskar said that the operation, costing EUR 500,000, remains uncertain as funds have not been secured yet.

The census cost EUR 11m, while another EUR 4.5m was spent on the appraisal. The notification of owners accounted for the bulk of the latter figure, EUR 2.6m.

Some 550,000 houses, 300,000 apartments, 380,000 farm buildings, 30,000 industrial buildings, 80,000 bars and offices, 1.7m forest plots and around 3 million farm plots are registered in Slovenia.

The total number of pieces of property is around 6.1m, 1.16m of which are buildings. The number of owners is 1.17m.