When does housing privatization end in Russia and until what year has it been extended?

Most citizens are still concerned about the issue of housing privatization in Russia, since there is a certain part of the real estate stock and a number of tenants who have not yet become full owners of the properties that the state has provided them for use.

What it is?

The Law on Housing Privatization implies providing Russian citizens with the opportunity to transfer residential premises from state and municipal real estate into their personal property.

In other words, the right to privatization allows you to get free living space that once belonged to the state.

The essence of privatization is as follows:

• providing citizens with a full triad of rights to real estate (previously, unhindered disposal was not allowed);
• the right of private property allows us to ensure careful treatment of housing and increase its durability;
• the state could free itself from the need to carry out major repairs of structures, since this burden passed to the owner;
• All state and municipal housing fell under privatization (with the exception of some objects);
• the timing of housing privatization (at the initial stage) was limited;
• the state privatization program was constantly extended, and from February 2018 it became indefinite;
• the procedure is completely free (since 1992) and voluntary;
• One of the goals of privatization is to secure personnel.

To carry out free privatization of housing, the following requirements must be met:

1. The presence of a social tenancy agreement with the applicant who has decided to receive ownership of an object from the state that he has been using for some time.
2. Voluntary consent to the procedure from all cohabitants living in such territory.
3. Absence of utility debts and timely repayment of specified payments.

The first privatization of housing (apartments, houses, rooms, etc.) in Russia entailed the following consequences for citizens:

• legislative regulations made it possible to independently determine the future fate of the living space (the owner became legally entitled to sell, exchange, rent out, or donate the object);
• the obligation to bear the tax burden has arisen;
• the owner becomes fully responsible for the technical condition of the property;
• an additional expense item appeared for payment of a fee for major repairs of the premises.

Privatization is prohibited in relation to living space that:

1. Considered to be in disrepair or dilapidated.
2. Located in the hostel.
3. Located in a closed military town.
4. Considered to be another office space.
5. To be reconstructed.
6. Is of cultural value.

Stages of housing privatization

The entire period of existence of the legislative act allowing the transfer of housing into private ownership was accompanied by certain stages that created special legal conditions and reservations.

When did it start?

Based on the analysis of the legislative initiative, 1990 marked the beginning of the privatization of apartments, which implied the purchase of such space from the state. Since mid-1991, the procedure has become free, thanks to B.N. Yeltsin.

At the end of 1992, the law underwent some changes, in particular, it acquired the name that it bears to this day - “On the privatization of housing stock in the Russian Federation.”

When will it end?

The deadline for completing the property privatization procedure was constantly changing.

The original version of the normative act did not establish a time limit for ending privatization. In 2004, the Housing Code of the Russian Federation was adopted, automatically abolishing previously existing rules of law in this area of ​​regulation.

However, as an exception, the privatization law continued to exist and was subsequently extended several times until March 2017.

Will it be extended?

The latest news about housing privatization indicates that the subsequent time limit for carrying out the procedure has been lifted.

What to do if you didn’t have time to privatize?

Residents of Russia who did not manage to privatize state-owned housing before March 2017 have the right to carry out such a procedure today.

To carry out privatization, the following procedure must be followed:

• Obtain approval for the transfer of housing from state property to private property from all cohabitants.
• Prepare the necessary package of documents, including such papers as:
  • applicant's passport;
  • identification documents of all adult cohabitants;
  • birth certificate of children (if the family has minors);
  • social rental agreement;
  • warrant for a real estate object (if any);
  • an extract from the house register confirming the legal basis of each cohabitant;
  • a certificate from the BTI confirming the technical parameters of the housing and the absence of illegal redevelopment;
  • an extract on the status of the personal account for utility bills (as a rule, the applicant should not have debt, however, the presence of such is not a basis for refusal);
  • a receipt confirming payment of the state duty;
  • cadastral documents for the object;
  • electronic or paper extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate;
• Appear in person at the government body authorized to carry out privatization (administration, local self-government bodies) or use an alternative method of appeal:
  • through the MFC;
  • through the State Services portal.
• Draw up an application for the privatization procedure (there is a prescribed form).
• Attach documents that serve as the legal basis for the provision of the service.
• Pay the fee charged for carrying out measures to re-register a real estate property (about 2 thousand rubles).
• Register the acceptance of the application and wait for the verification of the completeness and accuracy of the submitted documents (about 2 months).
• Return to the authority and obtain title documents for the living space.
• Implementation of the full triad of rights and bearing the mandatory tax and utility burden.

The stated time frames are general. If the applicant does not have any of the necessary documents or the property has undergone redevelopment that has not been previously legalized, then the tenant must first resolve the existing nuances, otherwise privatization will be denied.

The question of when the privatization of apartments in Russia will end is no longer relevant, since the legislative initiative allowed citizens to count on the indefinite implementation of such an event.

Today, housing can be transferred from municipal or state property to private (personal) status only by those who have the appropriate document in the form of a social tenancy agreement or a warrant for an apartment (used in the USSR, since the social tenancy category did not exist).

It is also necessary to first agree on this process with other members of the employer’s family. Cohabitants who do not want to privatize the property must issue a written refusal to carry out the procedure.