Where to buy and sell an apartment

What does the sale and purchase process include?
Most property owners and their buyers believe that for this it is necessary to draw up a contract for the sale of an apartment, and this is quite enough. In fact, it turns out that everything is not so simple!

Article updated 01/06/2019

Rosreestr does not provide a service for drawing up sales contracts
The MFC does not provide services for drafting sales contracts

There are no meeting rooms in these departments.
Third-party organizations renting premises in document reception offices and offering contract drafting services have nothing to do with Rosreestr.

You can sign a ready-made contract of sale and transfer money safely at the offices of large banks in, there are meeting rooms.

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The law does not require a contract of sale to be drawn up by a certified lawyer.

However, in some transactions, the contract of sale (SPA) of real estate is subject to obligatory certificate with a notary, and notaries do not want to accept third-party contracts, as they charge a fee for the drafting service.

The contract for the sale of real estate is not a complicated contract and the participant in the transaction can draw it up on their own by watching a video consultation from the author and receiving a modern template adapted to your conditions.

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The standard procedure for registering the purchase and sale of an apartment, and indeed any other real estate, includes several stages:

The first stage is the preparation of preliminary agreements

To prepare such a serious and expensive transaction as the purchase and sale of real estate, as a rule, it takes time - from several days to several weeks. Therefore, preliminary agreements on the price, procedure and terms of payment for real estate, the date of signing the main contract of sale, must be documented so that none of the parties to the transaction changes them.
If the conditions are not spelled out on paper, in 90% of cases the transaction “falls apart” due to a price increase or other significant conditions.

So, the first stage of the transaction

Before signing any documents with the seller, get reliable information about the property from the USRN. Insofar as .

• signing, Deposit agreements and transfer of funds

You create these documents yourself. They are signed by the legal participants in the transaction and immediately come into force. These are important documents, the main thing is to write them correctly.

As a rule, the signing of such documents takes place in the purchased apartment and the Buyer has the opportunity to once again inspect the apartment for the absence of hidden defects and examine the original documents for the apartment and identity cards (passports, birth certificates, etc.) of the owners.

Further, usually within 1-3 weeks, depending on the situation, the presence of long holidays, when state bodies are not working and other circumstances, a package of documents for the transaction is prepared.

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Where to buy and sell an apartment. Making a deal

The second stage of the transaction:

• Drawing up and signing the Purchase and Sale Agreement and the Transfer and Acceptance Certificate.

Some transactions are now certified by a notary, these documents are compiled by his assistant.

If your transaction is not subject to certification by a notary, you prepare these documents yourself.

Be sure to coordinate them with all participants in the transaction in advance, send them by e-mail or send them in person.

They are signed, as a rule, in the Rosreestr office, MFC or in a bank where money is transferred, put into a cell or a loan agreement is signed, there are negotiation rooms there.

Order the drafting of a contract of sale

If you find it difficult to draw up a sales contract on your own, contact a lawyer.
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Where to buy and sell an apartment. Registration of the transfer of ownership

The third stage of the transaction:

• Broadcast statements on the transfer of ownership from the seller to the buyer and the registration of ownership of the buyer with the Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Acceptance and Transfer Certificate and takes place at the Documents Receiving and Issuing Department of the Roosreestr or at the My Documents MFC.
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• You need to pay the state fee, more

Attention: documents are transported from the MFC to Rosreestr and back, which delays the procedure for 2 days.

For information: now you can apply for registration at any branch of the MFC or Rosreestr within the same cadastral district.

If the property is located in another cadastral district, documents can only be submitted through the offices of Rosreestr.