Russian Federation

Registering Property in

Russian Federation

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: RUB 15,333,526.86
  • City: Moscow

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
* 1 Seller obtains the cadastral passport at the Bureau of Technical Inventory (BTI)

The seller should obtain technical inventory document for the building –the cadastral passport – from the local bureau of technical inventory. As of May 13, 2008 per the changes in the Federal Law No. 66-FZ, inventory documents and cadastral maps were replaced by cadastral passports. The only technical inventory document obtained from the bureau of technical inventory is a cadastral passport. This document replaces the previously required three documents: extract from the technical passport, floor plan and explanation of the floor plan.

The documentation shall include:
Application (standard form)
The document certifying rights of the seller to the property (must be in possession of the seller)
A letter of guarantee (with respect to payments for BTI services)
An official document confirming applicant's authority to act on behalf of a legal entity (i.e. power of attorney and passport of the applicant)
A document showing the legal boundaries of the property (i.e. to ensure that there are no unauthorized alterations or modifications).
Under Clause 28 of the New Competition Law (dated 26 July 2006) the buyer must obtain preliminary approval of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (the FAS) for an acquisition of real estate property if the book value of the real estate property being acquired exceeds 20% of the book value of fixed and intangible assets of the seller, provided that (i) the aggregate value of assets of the buyer, according to its latest financial statements and the seller (group of the seller) exceeds three billion roubles (currently approximately US$83 mln); or (ii) their aggregate proceeds from the sale of products (works, services) for the last calendar year exceeds six billion roubles (currently approximately US$167 mln) and, at the same time, the value of assets as per the latest financial statements of the seller exceeds one hundred fifty million roubles (currently approximately US$4.2 mln); or (iii) either the buyer or the seller is included in the register of business entities as having a market share of a particular product (work or service) of more than 35% .

The FAS must be notified about the purchase of real estate property by the buyer if the aggregate assets value, according to the latest financial statements of the buyer and the seller, or their aggregate proceeds from the sale of products (works, services) for the calendar year preceding the year of acquisition of real estate property or other actions, exceeds two hundred million roubles (currently approximately US$5.6 mln); and, at the same time, the aggregate assets' value according to the latest financial statements of the seller (group of the seller) exceeds thirty million roubles (currently approximately US$0.8 mln)

The antimonopoly permission is not necessary for the state registration of the transfer of title to the property in Procedure 6, but its absence may lead to recognizing the transaction as void.
NOTE: Due to the recent changes in the Russian antimonopoly legislation, such would normally apply to major transactions and would not be necessary for small and medium transactions such as the one described in this case study.It would take about one month and cost the equivalent of 100 minimum wages.

The documentation shall include:
Application (standard form)
Other documents specified in the governmental regulations


Agency: Bureau of Technical Inventory 		11 days (simultaneous with procedures 2, 3, and 4) RUB 1,000
* 2 Seller obtains the extracts from the Unified State Register of Real Estate Property

A non-encumbrance certificate on the property must be obtained from the Unified State Register of Real Estate Property maintained by the State Registration Department of Rights to the Real Estate Property. The cost of the extract is RUB 100 for individuals and RUB 300 for legal entities.




Agency: Unified State Register of Real Estate Property 		7 days (simultaneous with procedures 1, 2, and 4) RUB 600 per extract (legal entities)
* 3 Obtain an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities containing the information about the seller

Legal entities must obtain extracts from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Although Russian legislation does not establish the term of validity for the extracts, in practice most state authorities accept the extracts issued not earlier than 30 days before their submission to the respective state authority.

Agency: Unified State Register of Legal Entities 		7 days (regular procedure) or 1 day (expedited procedure) (simultaneous with procedures 1, 2, and 3) RUB 200 (regular procedure) or RUB 400 (expedited procedure)
4 Notarization of corporate documents by seller and buyer

The seller should obtain notarized copies of the certificate on state registration of ownership title on the building as well as the certificate of ownership. The buyer and seller should obtain notarized copies of the certificate of LLC state registration, the charter, the foundation agreement, the certificate on individual taxpayer numbers, and the informational letter of State Committee on Statistics. Notarization costs about 500 RUR for each document (RUB 10 per page) with a state notary, whatever rates are established by a private notary.

The documentation shall include:
Certificate on state registration of ownership title to the building and certificate on state registration of ownership title to the land plot (Obtained in Procedure 3).
Certificate of LLC state registration, the charter, the foundation agreement, the certificate on individual number of a taxpayer, and the informational letter of state committee on statistics (must be in possession of the buyer and seller).

1-2 days RUB 500
5 Apply for state registration of title transfer in the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate

Starting from 30 December 2008, state registration is carried out by the Federal Service of State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) and its departments in the constituent territories of the Russian Federation where the respective real estate property is located.
In addition to the documents obtained in accordance with procedures 1-3, duly authorized representatives of the seller and the buyer must submit to the Moscow department of Rosreestr:
• applications (standard form);
• payment order(s) confirming payment of the state registration duty by the buyer;
• title documents and ownership certificates of the seller in respect of each property;
• corporate approvals of the sale and purchase transaction (if necessary in accordance with the Russian law and corporate documents of the parties);
• 3 originals of the executed sale and purchase agreement.
State registration of the title transfer will include the following actions of Rosreestr:
• receipt of the documents from the parties;
• legal due diligence of the documents and of the validity of the transaction;
• determination of absence of contradictions between rights to be state registered and rights that have already been registered as well as any other grounds for refusal or suspension of state registration;
• making of entries in the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate and Transactions Therewith; and
• placing of registration stamps on the sale and purchase agreement and issue of ownership certificates.
The statutory term of state registration of any right and transaction is one month from date of the application and documents submission to Rosreestr.
Departments of Rosreestr in different regions may issue orders establishing shorter terms of state registration of rights and transactions with certain property. In Moscow the term of state registration of title transfer is one month for non-residential property and 12 days for residential property.


Agency: Federal Service of State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) 		30 days RUB 15,000 (building) + RUR 15,000 (land plot transfer)
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.
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