1. It's not only houses or buildings; land also is administered. Also, in apartment buildings, each apartment has a separate registration code.

2. 'Kadaster' is dutch for the English 'cadastre' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre)

3. The Dutch cadastre was initiated in 1811, by decree from Napoleon Bonaparte (the Netherlands was part France at the time). First ?complete? set was available in 1832 (http://www.kadaster.nl/web/Themas/themaartikel/dossierartike... in Dutch)