"Regime forces will soon retake the city, and my parents know anything can happen to their home in that time." "Most property records were never digitized in Syria, so we are trying to make copies of as many as we can," said Shannon. Three years later, Bashar Assad issued a decree to digitize all property records. And we invited people to call or come to our office if they wanted to buy, sell or claim their homes." If they registered their houses before the uprising, then Adnan could tell them the status of their homes.

Source: Egypt Independent May 02, 2017 13:41 UTC