Belarus

Registering Property in

Belarus

Listed below is a detailed summary of the steps, time and cost involved in registering property, assuming a standardized case of an entrepreneur who wants to purchase land and a building that is already registered and free of title dispute.

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  • Standard Property Transfer

  • Property Value: BYR 849,066,874.03
  • City: Minsk

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Obtaining a non-encumbrance certificate

Under the legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the described situation obtaining a non-encumbrance certificate is not mandatory for the registration of a sale-purchase agreement and registration of transfer of title. Also no certificates for the land plot or cadastral plans are demanded.
Obtaining of this certificate may be exercised at discretion of the person concerned, for example, for certifying the Seller's title to the property, for checking property against liens or encumbrances.

Though in most cases it is strongly recommended for the buyer to insist on obtaining such a certificate. The cost for this regulated by the Resolution №462 of March 26, 2008 and has been set as 0,4 base amount. The base amount for 2009 is BYR 35000 (according to the Resolution №1446 of November 2, 2007). The 3-working-days time-limit has been established on November 21, 2007 (according to Resolution №1578 of November 21, 2007). However, in practice it is quite possible to obtain the non-encumbrance certificate in 1 day.

As a result of this change:

1. legal persons and individual entrepreneurs are not obliged to provide the written waiver of the municipality of pre-emption right of the property when registering the contract of sale, barter, gift of capital structure at the State Property Committee and its subordinate organizations.

2. The selling price of the real estate which is not included in the approved by the municipality list may be established by legal entity or individual entrepreneur independently. Earlier in respect of all real estate, and currently only in respect of real estate included in the approved by municipality list the selling price of the property cannot be below the price set by the seller to the municipality.

3. As approved by Decision of Minsk Council of deputies from 24.11.2010 N 75 list of the real estate in the territory of Minsk, which can be used for a local needs, consists only of 5 objects.


Agency: Registry 		1 day BYR 14,000
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