The President of the Russian Federation signed a law on the indefinite privatization of housing. Deputies made free privatization of housing perpetual Decree on perpetual privatization

The President signed federal law and extended the free privatization forever. The new law canceled all the previous ones, which limited the terms of free privatization.

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Whom does it concern?

This applies to everyone who lives in municipal or state apartments under a social contract.

A citizen who has entered into a social employment contract with the state and his family members who permanently reside with him can participate in privatization.

The right to free privatization of housing is one-time. If you have used it once, then you can repeat it only if for the first time you were a child under 18 years old.

You cannot privatize housing that is in disrepair. But it is possible - requiring major repairs. If you live in an apartment owned by a military unit, or your home has the status of a hostel, then you also do not have the right to privatization.

As it was before?

Until 1992, most of the housing in the Soviet Union was owned by the state. Citizens entered into a social tenancy agreement with local authorities, under which they lived in an apartment or house, and had limited rights to dispose of this housing.

On the one hand, a person got such an apartment free of charge. On the other hand, he could not sell it or bequeath it. Soviet citizens could only exchange their apartment for a similar state one. Therefore, if adult children wanted to leave their parents, they had to come up with complex multi-way exchange schemes.

The state apartment could not be re-planned without the prior consent of the owner. To obtain such a permit, the tenant had to prove to the local authorities that the redevelopment was necessary and that it would not worsen, but would improve the living conditions of the family.

25 years ago, Boris Yeltsin signed a law on free privatization of housing. According to this law, on the basis of a social rental agreement, a citizen could register a home for free and become its full owner. After privatization, the apartment could be sold and another one could be bought with the proceeds.

The new housing code assumed that privatization would end in 2007, then it was extended until the end of February 2017, and now all restrictions were canceled and extended indefinitely.

I have a social employment contract, what should I do?

You can take your time to privatize your apartment. Under the social tenancy agreement, you do not pay home overhaul contributions and property tax. When you privatize, you will pay.

But if you want to sell, donate or bequeath an apartment, then first you have to privatize it. To do this, contact the MFC or your local municipality. All family members over 14 years of age must be present in person.

You will need privatization applications from all family members and documents that prove the identity of all applicants. MFC employees themselves will receive the rest of the papers from the relevant services.

You may be asked to additionally provide certificates of marriage registration or death of family members who previously lived in the apartment. Check with the MFC at your place of residence for the exact list of documents.

How long does privatization take?

Under the privatization law, officials have two months to consider your application. If they make a positive decision, then you will be offered to draw up a privatization agreement and ownership of the apartment. Everything will take no more than 70 days.

And what, the apartment will be mine for free?

You do not pay for an apartment: in fact, the state gives you the housing in which you now live. You only need to pay the state fee.

After privatization, you will have to pay real estate tax and home renovation fees. But on the other hand, you can sell, donate or bequeath your apartment, and you will not need to obtain additional permits in order to make major repairs and redevelopment in it.

And a lot of non-privatized remains?

According to the latest published data from Rosstat, by the beginning of 2016, a third of the residential premises that are subject to privatization remained unprivatized - this is just over 9 million apartments.

What about the others?

Free privatization of housing is a unique program that has no analogues in the world. Thanks to her, the share of homeowners in Russia is higher than in Western Europe and the United States. In European countries, privatization also took place, but nowhere was it free.

In Germany, on the territory of the former GDR, in the 90s, the state transferred the houses to the ownership of management companies. The companies had to pay off the accumulated debt on taxes and utility bills and repair the property received. Then they got the right to rent or sell apartments.

In Poland, at the same time, tenants in state-owned apartments were able to buy them out at a market price with a discount from the state.

In the UK, privatization took place 10 years earlier. The British state simply offered citizens to buy housing at market prices.

It's funny with this free privatization. This is the second time since the adoption of the law in the first reading, something unexpected has happened. The first time was in 2015, when in the first reading it was first extended until 2018, and then with amendments it was "cut" until 2016. And now - a convincing revenge. On February 10, 2017, in the third reading, a law was adopted that makes the free privatization of housing indefinite. 413 deputies unanimously voted for this.

Measure five times
Recall that the free privatization was extended five times, the last one until March 1, 2017. And every time - an intrigue: will it be extended or not? This year it was twisted much stronger than the previous ones. Still, after all, before making the free privatization perpetual, the same deputies were going to cancel it altogether. Yes, yes, on January 27, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a draft law authored by the notorious United Russia deputy Alexander Sidyakin, who from March 1 canceled free privatization for all groups of the population (except for residents of Crimea, orphans and displaced persons from emergency housing) ... And so he left only three years for her - until 01/01/2020. And the draft law, which offered unlimited free privatization, was unanimously rejected by the deputies. But now - no less amicably received.

It is possible that a signal from the Russian presidential administration had some influence on the deputies. During the second reading of the bill on February 7, a number of deputies, including Alexander Sidyakin and the chairman of the Duma committee on housing and communal services (she is also the author of the rejected project on indefinite privatization) Galina Khovanskaya, proposed to extend the free privatization at least until 2019, given that the news its imminent completion sparked a privatization boom across the country. And then a sensation broke out. Andrei Isaev, deputy chairman of the United Russia faction, said that the decision was ripe at the top to make the free privatization indefinite. On the same day, in the second reading, the necessary amendments were adopted, making from the bill on the completion of the free bill on the unlimited free privatization.

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It turned out that free privatization had many supporters - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Vyacheslav Volodin spoke in favor of it, and Dmitry Medvedev's press secretary Natalya Timakova said that her boss had always been a supporter of indefinite privatization. Then the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin adhered to this point of view from the very beginning. It seems that so far only the leaders of the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Economy, who have lobbied for the law on its completion, have kept silent. Perhaps they have slightly revised their position.

The bill will go to the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, where on February 15 without delay it will receive approval, and by March 1 it will be approved by the president. Free privatization will be unlimited. But is it forever indefinite? Everything is not very obvious here. After all, as we remember, the bill on perpetual privatization was rejected, but the law on the completion of free privatization was adopted in the first reading, and amendments were already made to it. Which ones are not clear yet. The rejected bill, for example, had certain restrictions. That is, unlimited and free, but not for everyone. The bill rejected it for those registered after March 1, 2005. Whether there are any restrictions in the adopted law is not yet known, but we will wait, fortunately, it will not be long.

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About privatization in questions and answers

Which housing can be privatized and which cannot?

Privatization is the transfer of housing from municipal or state ownership to the ownership of individuals living in it on the basis of a move-in order issued before 1995, when social rent agreements did not yet exist. Let us remind you that a social rent agreement is concluded with citizens recognized as poor and in need of housing, when this housing is allocated to them. There are restrictions on privatization. So, it is impossible to privatize housing that is located in hostels, in closed military towns, in nature conservation and protected areas, as well as recognized as emergency or located in buildings undergoing demolition.

How long does it take to live in an apartment to be eligible to privatize it?

There are no restrictions on the length of stay. After concluding a social employment contract, you can immediately begin to collect a package of documents and apply for privatization.

What is now included in the package of documents for privatization? Is it difficult to assemble it?

The list of documents includes:

• statements of consent to privatization from all adults, starting from the age of 14 and having received a passport, who have a permanent residence in this living space;
• personal documents of all those participating in the privatization: passports of the Russian Federation, birth certificates of minors under 14 years old;
• technical passport for the apartment;
• move-in warrant or social employment contract;
• a copy of a personal account confirming the absence of debts on utility bills;
• an extract from the house book, where all registered in the apartment are indicated.

It should be borne in mind that each specific option may require additional documents. For example, a document on the change of surname, a death certificate of a family member entered in the warrant, but a deceased family member, permission from the guardianship authorities, if a child under guardianship is registered, a certificate of non-participation in privatization earlier - for those who changed their place of residence, and so on. ... This is where significant difficulties are possible. And in the case when one of the registered in the apartment is categorically against privatization, then it will have to be sought through the courts.

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Where to submit a package of documents? And how long to wait after?

It is most convenient to submit a package of documents through the MFC, and where it is not available - to the municipal administration. The term for consideration of an application for privatization is two months. After that, you receive from the municipal authorities either consent to privatization, or a refusal.

And what after that?

If the authorities have confirmed their consent to privatization, then an agreement on the transfer of housing into ownership is signed between the municipal administration and the applicants - by all applicants. Then the transfer of ownership is registered with Rosreestr. In this case, you must pay the state fee - 2000 rubles. Since 2017, the term for registration of the right has been reduced to 5-7 working days, depending on the method of submission of documents. The previously issued certificate of registration of the right to housing has now been canceled, so you will only have an agreement on the transfer of housing into ownership. An extract from the USRN, confirming the registration of the right, can be ordered from Rosreestr. Now, in February 2017, it costs 250 and 400 rubles in electronic and paper forms, respectively.

What to do if privatization is denied?

The reasons for refusal may vary. For example, the recognition of housing not as municipal, but as official, the absence in the real estate register of the house in which the apartment is privatized, etc. Some obstacles are solvable, some may be insurmountable. But the general solution to a refusal to privatize is an attempt to achieve it through the courts.

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The beginning of 2020 was marked by a joyful event for all tenants of social housing - the law on indefinite privatization of housing was passed (). Housing privatization is now not only free, but also unlimited.

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This means that every resident of the country, permanently residing on state or municipal square meters, has the opportunity, in the manner prescribed by law, to initiate the transfer of property rights.

In this article, we will consider whether such a law has really been adopted, whether it will be beneficial to ordinary citizens, whether it has been made indefinite forever, or whether they just want to do it.

What means

Privatization of housing is a unique phenomenon that determines the voluntary transfer of state or municipal property into the hands of private individuals.

The main principles of denationalization of the country's housing stock are:

• gratuitousness - the privatization of apartments, houses and other residential premises is free of charge, that is, there is no need to pay the state the cost of the property transferred into ownership;
• voluntariness - every Russian has the right to independently decide whether he wants to become an owner of a home or remain an employer;
• single repetition - only once in a lifetime can you use the right to free privatization, in all other cases you will have to buy real estate for money.

Legislation

The basis of housing privatization in the Russian Federation is now:

• Housing Code of the Russian Federation ();
• Civil Code of the Russian Federation;

It was the last legislative norm on this list that made possible what was previously impossible to dream of - unlimited, free housing privatization.

Who will benefit

Fresh news about the adoption of the bill on perpetual privatization delighted, first of all, ordinary Russians, who:

• live in dilapidated and hazardous living quarters;
  

  For those who are awaiting resettlement in a new housing that meets all sanitary standards and safety requirements, perpetual privatization has become an excellent opportunity to get their own housing without infringing on their civil and constitutional rights ().

• recently became full-fledged Russians;
  

  Residents of the Crimean Peninsula have the right to take advantage of the process of denationalization of the housing stock of the Russian Federation, just like all other residents of the Russian Federation.

• live in hostels.
  

  Privatization of this type of housing mainly takes place in court and drags on for a long time, indefinite privatization allows them to calmly bring what they started to the end.

It is obvious that the decision on the indefinite privatization of housing for all after March 1, 2020 first of all, it will be beneficial to those who, through no fault of their own, could not or did not manage to privatize real estate during the period of validity in its penultimate edition.

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Pros and cons for the state

From the point of view of the state, privatization has always been a controversial undertaking.

The number of pluses often outweighed the negative aspects, and vice versa, the question of stopping and extending privatization was considered many times.

Consider what housing denationalization means for the country:

1. Positive points. The main advantages of privatization for states are:

• increasing the tax base;
  

  The more real estate objects pass into private hands, the higher the percentage of tax collection and the state budget.

• no capital repair costs;
  

  By taking ownership of housing, citizens are obliged to independently bear the burden of overhaul of the entire building as a whole.

• reducing the cost of maintaining municipal housing.
  

  The absence of a large number of social housing on the municipality's balance sheet frees up large cash flows that can be used for other needs of the constituent entity of the Federation.

2. Disadvantages. The main disadvantages of the denationalization of the housing stock include:

• reduction of social housing;
  

  The results of privatization over the past years have shown that more than 80% of municipal and state housing has already been transferred to private ownership, which significantly violates the rights of those who really need social housing.

• a tendency towards deprivatization;
  

  The return of real estate back to state or municipal ownership symbolizes that the institution of privatization has already exhausted itself.

• slowdown in the development of the rental housing and non-commercial rental market.
  

  Providing housing to citizens, the municipality constantly finds itself in a situation where square meters "go out from under the nose" and it is impossible to establish the sphere of rental housing in the required proportions.

When did it start and when it ends

Russians got the opportunity to get housing from the state into private ownership back in the distant 1991 year and already 25 years citizens of the Russian Federation receive residential square meters from the state free of charge (). Over the years, free privatization has been repeatedly extended so that everyone can have time to exercise their right.

It was on this day that housing privatization was to become paid. That is, in order to receive housing from the state, it would be necessary to pay for it.

But with the adoption of the law by number, everything changed. There is no deadline now. Although many political analysts believe that after the next presidential elections in 2018 year other decisions can be expected regarding free and unlimited privatization.

Order

The procedure for registration of a state or municipal apartment consists of several stages, the main of which are:

• collection of the necessary documents;
• visiting various state institutions (BTI, Housing Inspectorate, local administration, etc.) in order to write applications for privatization and obtain certificates, extracts, etc .;
• submission of documents;
• signing a privatization agreement;
• registration of ownership in the bodies of Rosreestr.

Collecting documents

In order to become a full-fledged owner of an apartment, you need to collect a considerable number of documents:

• a social tenancy order or contract for the dwelling in which you live (obtainable from your local administration);
• cadastral passport (obtained from the BTI);
• certificate of non-participation in privatization earlier;
• a certificate of family composition (from the local administration or the MFC);
• an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate to be privatized;
• consent of all tenants living in the apartment (or notarial refusal in favor of someone);
• statement from the personal account.

What you have to pay for

Housing privatization itself is carried out completely free of charge, that is, you do not have to compensate the state for the loss of housing. But getting any documents you do not have will cost a pretty penny.

How to understand what you have to pay for and what you don't:

• cadastral passport - the state fee for obtaining this document is 200 rubles for individuals and 600 rubles for legal ();
• an extract from the USRR - it will cost citizens 200 rubles, and institutions and organizations - 600 ;
• court costs - in the case of the privatization of an apartment through a court (), to obtain a court decision, you will have to go a long way, which is associated with financial expenses ( from 500 to 5000 rubles);
• tenants' notarial refusal - depending on the number of people who refuse to privatize, the cost of such a service can reach a very decent amount (the average cost of one refusal is 950 rubles).

Where to go

When carrying out privatization, it is impossible to do without a visit to the following organizations and government agencies:

• the administration of the settlement - writing an application for privatization, obtaining an order or a social loan agreement;
• Housing inspection - concluding a privatization agreement;
• Bureau of Technical Inventory - examination of the apartment, obtaining a technical passport (if necessary);
• Rosreestr - obtaining a cadastral passport, extracts from the USRR;
• MFC - an extract from the house book or a certificate of the composition of the family.

Questions and Answers

After the adoption of the law on indefinite privatization (), citizens had many questions related to the use of their right to receive housing from the state.

Perpetual privatization of housing after March 1, 2020

After March 1, 2020 (entry into force) housing privatization will continue as usual. Perpetual does not change any of the other required parameters.

Garden plot

The free privatization of housing on the territory of the Russian Federation should have stopped as early as 03/01/2017, but the issue was so controversial that it was not easy to predict the outcome. Since they wanted to end privatization more than once, it was a question of extending such an opportunity until 2020, and then only for certain categories of citizens (displaced persons, orphans). However, afterwards, there was a rumor that they wanted to make the privatization indefinite. In fact, this turned out to be not a rumor, but the initiators of such a decision were citizens who turned to the deputies with a corresponding request. Thus, at the next meeting of the State Duma in February, a bill was adopted and approved, according to which general free privatization will be extended indefinitely.

Despite the fact that the Russians had the right to privatize municipal real estate back in 1992, to this day, not all of the housing stock has been transferred to private ownership. There are many reasons for this, but more often than not, single and elderly citizens are in no hurry to take advantage of the opportunity of free privatization, for whom it is more profitable to use social housing.

Significance of the decision

Recently, citizens who did not use their right to transfer municipal housing into ownership had another reason not to rush - the introduction of a property tax for individuals. That is, every owner of an apartment, private house, any other housing or its share is now obliged to pay tax on this property. Besides, every year the tax percentage grows by twenty percent. Roughly, this growth should stop by 2020. This became one of the reasons for the state to make the privatization of housing perpetual.

The perpetual privatization amendments give Russians enough time to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the procedure before deciding whether to do so. Despite the obligation to pay tax on a privatized residential property, the transfer of living space from personal property provides many opportunities:

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Since after March 1, 2017, there was a possibility that the free privatization of housing would be made perpetual by a new bill, many postponed the procedure. This means that municipal real estate can indeed be issued for perpetual use.

Relevance of re-registration

After the decision on indefinite privatization was made, an accompanying question arose - have the rules, conditions and procedure for re-registering state property in personal ownership changed? At this stage, it is worth answering that no changes have occurred. Since now no one will renew anything, the population can breathe easy and not make a decision in a hurry.

It should be recalled that indefinite privatization of housing is not limited, since we must not forget about the use of municipal land. Only those citizens who have not previously participated in privatization can use this procedure for re-registering their rights (meaning the capable age after eighteen years). In addition, tenants living in a municipal apartment, but not registered on a permanent basis, have no right to claim this property and can be evicted at any time.

Accordingly, if any of the residing citizens is not interested in privatization and in the fact that it was made indefinite, he can officially refuse to participate in the registration, without losing the right to use the housing or transferring his share to other participants.

Standard design

To date, the indefinite extension of privatizations has not affected the standard step-by-step procedure for its registration. As before, tenants have the right to register as their own property, both the entire living space and part of it. To speed up the procedure and reduce the risk of conflicts after, it makes sense to use the services of a notary to certify the agreement and refusal to participate in privatization. Also, in order not to involve and not waste time from everyone at once, you can issue a power of attorney at the notary office for one person who, on behalf of the others, will deal with this process, if any of the participants does not want to additionally control everything.

After resolving the issue between the participants, you need to start preparing the necessary documents. In each individual case, the list will be different.

Standard list of required papers:

Dealing with objections

When it became known that the privatization of municipal housing would be perpetual, some citizens, being opponents of this, were agitated. Basically, these are people who do not live in an apartment or private house on their own, but with other residents, often even relatives. Such people in every possible way prevent the transfer of real estate from the municipal fund to ownership, but their desires mean little if we are not talking about one-room apartments.

If we delve into the issue a little, then while the privatization of the share of housing is possible, it makes little sense to get into an aggressive confrontation. Each permanent resident can re-register his room and a commensurate share of common areas into personal ownership, despite protests from neighbors. It is absolutely legal, just like the partial privatization of land, if the land plot allows it in terms of area.

In especially difficult situations, conflicts should be resolved through the court, where it is necessary to apply only after the plaintiff has collected the maximum possible package of documents and testimony in order to defend his point of view and requirements.

Free privatization of residential premises has been going on in the Russian Federation for more than 25 years, but not all citizens, for a number of reasons, managed to register their housing in the ownership. Therefore, the issue of extending free housing ownership is still relevant.

What is privatization

Free registration of residential premises in ownership implies the opportunity and the right of every citizen of the Russian Federation on the basis of Art. 11 of Law No. 1541-1 “On Privatization ... » once in a lifetime, re-register the apartment he occupies under a social tenancy agreement into personal property.

This procedure is possible only on the basis of the personal desire of a citizen living in a municipal dwelling on the basis of a social tenancy agreement, and in no way depends on the will of the municipality. Regardless of whether local governments want to transfer housing to the ownership of the tenants, or do not want to, they are obliged, after receiving the application for privatization, to draw up all the necessary documents and transfer the apartment to the ownership of the tenant.

The only condition for a citizen to have the right to register his own home should be living in it on the basis of a social employment contract, that is, using it legally.

In order to privatize a dwelling, the tenant must submit to the municipality:

• extract from the Unified State Register according to form No. 3, where it must be indicated that he does not own other residential premises;
• certificate from BTI that earlier he did not participate in privatization.

History of privatization in the Russian Federation

The law on privatization was adopted on July 4, 1991, and it is from this date that the beginning of the free privatization of residential premises is considered. On the basis of this Law, the transfer of housing to the ownership of citizens should have been completed by 2007, but life was constantly making adjustments, so the terms of free privatization were extended several times:

• before the beginning of 2010;
• before January 1, 2013;
• until March 1, 2018.

The need to repeatedly extend the terms was explained, mainly, by the reasons that a large category of citizens lived in dilapidated and dilapidated houses, in which they were in no hurry to register housing. Some of the citizens did not have the opportunity to get it into ownership, since it had actually been seized, the tenants were waiting for resettlement in newly built houses.

After March 1, 2018, the state planned to complete privatization for the main group of citizens of the Russian Federation, leaving the right to receive property only for three categories:

• orphans left without parental care;
• residents of Crimea and Sevastopol;
• persons living in dilapidated and dilapidated housing, recognized as such before 2012.

According to the amendments to the Law, these persons had the right to privatize the residential premises occupied by them under a social tenancy agreement until March 1, 2021, that is, within three years after the completion of the main privatization.

On February 10, 2018, the Duma adopted final amendments to the Law, according to which privatization became unlimited and free for all citizens of the Russian Federation. On February 22 of the same year, the President of the Russian Federation signed Federal Law No. 14-FZ, which approved all the amendments to the "Law on Privatization ..." adopted by the State Duma.

When adopting the amendments, the interests of citizens standing in line for receiving social housing were taken into account, since the end of privatization could deprive these categories of the opportunity to obtain housing in their ownership, that is, it would infringe on their rights.

For example, a family is recognized as low-income and is put on a waiting list for social housing. The line is moving slowly, and they can get housing no earlier than 2025. According to the old version of the Law, they could no longer register it as property; in the new version, such an opportunity remains, no matter how long they have to wait for receiving social housing.

Also, citizens living in dilapidated and dilapidated housing, after 2021, upon relocation to new dwellings, would lose the right to privatization, which also did not allow them to exercise their right to receive free housing in their property. According to Rosstat, at the beginning of 2018, about a third of residential premises remained in the ownership of municipalities, as the pace of apartment privatization slowed down significantly.

For example, a family of five lives in a 40 sq. M. Municipal one-room apartment. meters in a house intended for demolition. If they privatize a dwelling, then upon relocation they will be allocated an apartment of the same area. If they delay the privatization, then the new housing will be 80 square meters. meters.

In the latest version of the Law, the conditions for transferring residential premises into the ownership of citizens remain the same: it is possible only for persons living in apartments, rooms, or detached houses under a social tenancy agreement, who have never participated in privatization and do not own other residential premises.

Why privatization of housing has become indefinite

The state adopted these amendments to the Law on Privatization for the following reasons:

1. A large category of citizens who live in dilapidated or dilapidated housessubject to demolition cannot exercise their right to privatize housing until they are relocated to new apartments.
2. Queues to receive social housing will also be able to transfer it into ownership after they receive a new one under a social tenancy agreement.
3. Residents of Crimea and Sevastopol Previously, they could not register their apartments in ownership, since other laws were in force on the territory of Ukraine, and the urgent and massive transfer of housing to ownership in such a huge territory could create many difficulties in privatization, and, as a result, provoke a corruption component.
4. Cancellation of free privatization could provoke social tension in the Russian Federation, especially socially unprotected strata of the population of the Russian Federation who do not have the opportunity to get a roof over their heads in other way.

Experts named another important reason for indefinite privatization: protection from various fraudsters, so-called "black" realtors, unscrupulous relatives, especially in situations when elderly citizens who are poorly versed in Russian legislation live in a residential building.

Since the free privatization had an expiration date, as this date approached, various fraudulent schemes intensified significantly. Unscrupulous citizens entered the tenants of apartment buildings, persuaded them to hurry up with the registration of their property, and offered to help speed up the process for a "reasonable fee."

And since the end date for free registration of residential premises in ownership was inevitably approaching, many tenants fell for the bait of scammers. Now, there is no need to rush to re-register, any tenant can re-register his dwelling into ownership when he considers it necessary to do so.

For example, in many regions of the Russian Federation, fraudsters used such a scheme to deceive citizens living under a social employment contract. They offered lonely pensioners to help speed up the privatization process; the citizen only had to sign a general power of attorney for the “representative”. The power of attorney was signed, the fraudster registered the property, then quickly sold it and disappeared, and the new owners filed a statement of claim to evict the previous tenant.

For the state, the free privatization of residential premises also plays an important role, since with an increase in the number of owners of residential premises, the following occurs:

1. Expanding the number of taxpayers... All residential property owners are required to pay property tax annually.
2. Getting rid of unprofitable housing... As you know, all houses tend to wear out, after some time they need major repairs. If the housing is municipal, then this repair is paid by the state in the person of local municipalities, if it is owned by an individual, then the owner pays for all major repairs.
3. Financial profit... Although privatization is called free, citizens still bear some expenses. The cost of privatizing residential premises can range from 7 to 20 (and more) thousand rubles.

For example, the state duty for registration of property rights will cost 2,000 for each participant in the privatization, for the technical plan of the premises you will have to pay from 1,500 to 15,000 rubles, the registration of a cadastral passport will cost about 2,000 rubles.

Many citizens still have not been able to decide what is better for them - to privatize their housing, or to continue to live in it under a social tenancy agreement. Everyone must decide for himself what to do. Lawyers give several recommendations:

1. If your home recognized as dilapidated or emergency and should be resettled, then there is no need to rush to privatization. When such people move home, the owners receive a new dwelling at the rate of “meter by meter”. In other words, what area is in the old apartment, you will get the same in the new one. Tenants living under a social tenancy agreement receive new living quarters according to standards, that is, new housing can be much larger than the old one.
2. If the family is low-income, then privatization is not desirable. The already small family budget will become even smaller, since you will have to pay real estate tax.
3. If the apartment lives lonely citizen, besides, of advanced age, and his heirs are not registered, it is better to privatize housing so that his relatives inherit it. If the apartment is not privatized, then after the death of a lonely tenant, it is transferred to those on the waiting list; relatives will not have any right to it.
4. If a lonely tenant in a municipal dwelling no heirs, then there is no point in privatization, an employer under a social employment contract can already live in it for life.
5. If you live in a large municipal apartment and you are urgently needed money, you can privatize it, then sell it and buy it cheaper, using the rest of the money for your needs.
6. If you often admit large debts for housing and communal services, then it is better to privatize housing, since the eviction of the owner for rent arrears is quite difficult, and the eviction of residents of municipal apartments is much easier. But, on the other hand, upon eviction from a municipal apartment, the tenant is provided with an alternative roof over his head, albeit of a smaller size, in exchange, while the owner is evicted to "nowhere."

So, you live in a municipal dwelling under a social tenancy agreement and still have not decided whether it is worth privatizing it. Now you do not need to rush, there is time to weigh the pros and cons of registering a home.

If you decide to take this step, be sure to consult with a competent specialist. Consultation can be obtained on our website online, you can also call the numbers listed below.