Do you mean, get land ownership details from the Registers of Scotland? This OP project is for England and Wales only; Scottish land ownership is tracked by a separate organisation with better transparency rules. edit: they still charge £24 per property ownership lookup…

I would hardly describe the landed estates of Scotland as 'notoriously unequal'; Much of the land in England is sold as leasehold, such that your house in Lambeth will revert to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 99 years unless some legal procedure (and fee, and solicitor's consideration) is paid (usually when selling). In Scotland, the leasehold is nigh-non-existent, and the standard ownership is a freehold (the property owner own the property in perpetuity).

I think this project is to highlight the rent-seeking behaviour of the leaseholders.

In Scotland the leasehold was abolished in 2004, it doesn't exist.

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2004/08/19790/41578

It's unequal insofar as so much of the country is owned by such a small number of people, Scotland's supposedly the worst in the West in that respect.

Surely Lichtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, etc. would be worse, and I know the Papal State has fewer landholders…

The relevant figure is the proportion of owners to population, not the absolute numbers.

What an exciting new development in the classification of this group! Could one say, those examples are no comparison to the true state of land ownership in Scotland?

That's a fallacy with an entirely-appropriate name.

Your comparison was a straw man in the first place.

There is a Scottish government led initiative to map ownership of land in Scotland - see for example http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-2755... .

Note also that Scotland contains some very large but sparsely populated single owner estates, with around 80% of the population living on a very small percentage of the land (Glasgow and Edinburgh), which may make ownership appear "unequal".

Too late to edit my original comment, but here's some more info on "Improving transparency in land ownership in Scotland: a consultation on controlling interests in land":

https://beta.gov.scot/publications/improving-transparency-la...

And some stats from Google:

Scotland area - 80,077 km2, Glasgow - 149.9 km2, Edinburgh - 264 km2, i.e. 0.5% (413.9km2) of area is Glasgow or Edinburgh.

Scotland population: 5,295,000, Glasgow: 598,830, Edinburgh: 495,360, i.e. 20% (1,094,190) live in either Glasgow or Edinburgh.

That is reflected in property prices too - you can buy a farm with 452 acres of land (1.8 km2) in the north of Scotland (e.g. http://search.savills.com/list#/r/detail/gbedruedr140125) for a similar price to a 300 m2 flat in central Edinburgh (e.g. http://search.savills.com/list#/r/detail/gbedscedt160229 ).

Andy Wightman's writings are a good starting point for understanding Scotland's land ownership matters:

http://www.andywightman.com/writings/publications

There's a reason for that though - land in Scotland isn't as useful or valuable.