Kazakhstan

Registering Property in

Kazakhstan

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: KZT 56,857,742.51
  • City: Almaty

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

The non-encumbrance certificate is issued within 3-5 days and is free of change.

Agency: Registration Service Committee or Centers for Real Estate 		1-2 days no cost
* 2 Obtain a technical passport of the property

Annex 3 to the Order of the Minister of Justice No 325 has been abolished and new Standards of state service "The issuance of technical passport of properties" were approved by the Government Decree of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 15th Dec 2009. The detailed procedure is provided at www.minjust.kz (The conditions for the issue of a technical passport were set out in the “Standards of Rendering Public Services on Issue of Technical Passports for Immovable Property through the Population Servicing Centers”, which is Annex 3 to Order of Minister of Justice No325 “On Establishing the Standards of Rendering Public Services through the Population Servicing Centers” of 28 November 2008. According to these Standards the technical passport for the property with an area of over 1,000 sq m could be issued within one (1) month period from the day of application. The Registration Service Committee prepares technical passport within 19 calendar days).


Agency: Registration Service Committee or Centers for Real Estate 		17-21 days no cost
3 Notarization of seller’s and buyer’s incorporation documents and the sale-purchase agreement

According to Article 536, paragraph 1 of the Tax Code No99-IV of 10 December 2008 which came into effect 01 January 2009, if at least one of the parties concluding the sale and purchase agreement is a legal entity, the notarization of transaction shall cost one thousand (1,000) percent of the monthly index which equals KZT 1,512 since January 1, 2011. The cost for certification of the copies of corporate documents is 10% of the Monthly Index per page. Therefore, the notary fee for certification of the sale-purchase agreement is at KZT 15,120 and certification of each page of the corporate documents costs KZT 151.2 per page.
1 day KZT 16,632
4 Registration of the title at the Registration Service Committee

All documents are submitted to the Public Service Center.
The Law Amending Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Taxation on November 12, 2008 established new statutory time limit of 15 working days for the regular procedure (cost: 10 times the minimum calculation index- MCI) and 2 days for the expedited procedure (cost: 50 times the MCI). Other business centers take 7 days for expedited procedures
Cost of registration of non-residential premises depends on the number of buildings to be registered:

1 building - 10 x Monthly Index (1,273 for 2009) = KZT 12,730
2-5 buildings - 15 x Monthly Index = KZT 19,095
6-10 buildings - 20 x Monthly Index = KZT 25,460

The documentation shall include:

- a filled in standard application form;
- 2 original copies of the notarized sale-purchase agreement (obtained in Procedure 3)
- Non-encumbrance certificate (obtained in Procedure 1)
- Technical passport of the property (obtained in Procedure 2)

Agency: The Registration or Centers for Real Estate 		17-21 days KZT 15,120 = 10 times the monthly calculation index - MCI (regular procedure) or 30 MCI, i.e. 45,360 (expedited)
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.
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