Desidia de Kicillof: an ARBA strike has slowed down the housing market throughout the province of Buenos Aires

Since the end of February, a protest in a sector of the Tax Agency of the Province of Buenos Aires (ARBA) has had a strong impact on the provincial real estate market. This situation keeps the real estate market completely under control because it blocks the processing of cadastral reports, an

essential procedure for registering properties.

Real estate professionals and land surveyors reported that the impossibility of obtaining land statements is completely paralyzing the progress of the deeds. “ARBA's General Cadastre Management has been holding back land states since the first days of March and keeps the real estate market paralyzed,” they said. They added that “land surveyors cannot obtain land statements; therefore, notaries cannot write.”

This crisis is the direct responsibility of the useless governor Axel Kicillof, the head of the province, who demonstrated total indifference to the wage demand of ARBA employees and to the damage that this measure is causing to thousands of families and to a productive sector, which he boasts of defending. His hypocritical and inefficient management led to an unnecessary paralysis that reflects the laziness and mismanagement that

characterize his government.

The complaint originated at a meeting of ARBA employees at the headquarters of La Plata, where they withheld tasks and made a “noise” to demand wage improvements. The nature of the conflict is particular: it is not a total strike, but rather a phased withholding that limits the daily approval of land states to only 18 for the entire province

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As they explained to media 0223, “the only thing that is being managed are the land statements of functional units —departments that do not have any type of expansion, are 'clean' and are processed by system—”, while the rest of the procedures are stopped.