The years of the crisis we are witnessing a change that takes place on an international scale on the transfer and the purchase of land and to the role of real estate. From Greece and Spain, to the City of London and distant Asia, land plays a new, leading role in the global economy and the public land transfer examples into business groups tend to multiply.

The process of "land grabbing", a term that has prevailed in  iterature that describes the process of land transfer is the issue addressed by the research. Why does this process revert on the international scene and how is it implemented? Is it a new historical process? And if not, where are its' roots? Does "land grabbing" affect the structure of the city and the citizens' right to it? Who benefits from this?

These questions are presented by this research paper, by placing the land grabbing in the global crisis of 2007.

Greece did not remain unaffected by this process. Instead, many of the most loud examples of grabbing land internationally, pale in comparison to corresponding Greek cases.