Deputy Minister of Economic Development - Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography answered questions from readers and radio listeners of KP
Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Head of Rosreestr Victoria
CADASTRAL SUFFERINGS
Rosreestr is now associated by many primarily with the cadastral value, at which we now pay taxes on our property. This autumn, many saw the amount of the cadastral value with which they pay tax, and were very surprised. A person bought, for example, a plot a few years ago for a million, now the prices have fallen, and the payment is worth three million. Where do these numbers come from?
Yes, this topic worries everyone who owns real estate and who has to pay property taxes for it.
You said that the real estate market is not always doing well - as, for example, now. On new buildings, he, however, revived. This has not yet happened on the secondary market, and indeed, market prices turned out to be lower than the cadastral value, which is used for tax purposes. In order to avoid such distortions in taxation, amendments have now been made to the legislation - the new law "On State Cadastral Valuation", which came into force on January 1, 2017. (But now we still pay taxes on the cadastral value calculated according to the old rules - Ed.) The concept of a real estate market index has been introduced. And this index will be applied to align the cadastral value with the market value.
And what will this alignment look like in practice?
The new law provides for the creation of special authorized organizations - budgetary institutions that are entitled to conduct a cadastral valuation. When recalculating the cadastral value, they will have to take this index into account. That is, take into account the state of the real estate market.
Everyone is sure that Rosreestr itself is engaged in real estate valuation. And with might and main you are scolded for it. In vain mean?
It is a myth. There are a lot of myths around our sphere. Last year, for example, there was a rumor that it was necessary for everyone to urgently clarify the boundaries of land plots before January 1, 2018, otherwise it would be impossible to make a deal with them. There is no such requirement in the legislation.
Let's return to the issue of cadastral valuation. Who is entitled to calculate the cadastral value of real estate? This right, according to the new law, is vested in regional budgetary institutions. The results of the assessment are approved by the executive branch in each region. What does Rosreestr do? Rosreestr accepts this value from the region and enters it into the Unified State Register of Real Estate (EGRN). After that, in the register, in addition to other records about the object, such as: area, boundaries, copyright holder, restrictions and encumbrances, another characteristic appears - the cadastral value.
HOW TO REDUCE THE COST
And why complain, if you understand that the cost for tax purposes clearly exceeds the one at which it is realistic to sell a plot or apartment?
But we can complain. We are responsible for the work of commissions for pre-trial contestation of cadastral value. You can write an application to such a commission created under Rosreestr, and this cost will be revised. According to our statistics, in half of the cases the cadastral value is reviewed in favor of the applicant. I will clarify that in the commissions under the Rosreestr it is possible to challenge the cadastral value determined before the entry into force of the new law “On State Cadastral Valuation”. Commissions in which it will be possible to revise the results of the assessment under the new law will be created by decision of the regional authorities.
Let's get a little more detailed. I received a payment - the apartment is estimated at 10 million, but I understand that it is good if it costs 6 million. What documents and where should I bring?
In order to revise the cadastral value, you must bring an appraiser's report that shows that the apartment is worth less than indicated in the valuation materials approved by the regional authorities. And with a statement and this report, apply to the commission at Rosreestr. All addresses of these commissions are on our website rosreestr.ru.
The commission includes representatives of Rosreestr, the region and the professional community - self-regulatory organizations of appraisers.
Well, I successfully challenged the cadastral value, it was reduced for me. And the following year, the region reassessed again. Will the results of the challenge be taken into account? Or start all over?
Very good, right question. We addressed the regulator, represented by the Ministry of Economic Development from Rosreestr, with such a question and even proposed amendments to the legislation. After all, the cadastral value is reviewed not only within the framework of the work of the commission, but also within the framework of litigation. You can also apply to the court for a revision of the cadastral value. Moreover, individuals can immediately go to court, bypassing the commission. For legal entities, the procedure is different - pre-trial contestation is a mandatory procedure. And only when they receive a refusal from the commission, they can submit an application and documents to the court. The experience of courts and value review commissions should be taken into account in the mass cadastral valuation. This, in our opinion, should be mandatory in the law.
THE TAX IS MY, THE PLOT IS ANOTHER'S
In the same tax payments, there are very often some inaccuracies, confusion associated with these lands themselves, apartments. For example, one of our employees had a double plot of land - somehow it was registered twice on the cadastral register and now she receives a double tax on one plot. And there are also cases when a payment comes, for example, to someone else's room in a communal apartment. How to deal with it?
I'll start with statistics. We have been working with the Federal Tax Service for a long time: Rosreestr makes an annual upload to the Federal Tax Service to determine the taxable base for all real estate objects, as well as an upload as the characteristics of objects change once every ten days. And within the framework of this work, in more than 98% of cases, there are no problems with the data, they pass the input control from the tax authorities. That is, in our example, we are talking about 2% of cases when some kind of manual parsing is needed.
What advice can I give citizens to stay out of the 2%? Both on the website of the tax service and on our website it is possible to use such a service as a personal account. In the case of the Federal Tax Service, this is the personal account of the taxpayer, Rosreestr is the personal account of the property owner. We launched this service in 2017 and about 500 thousand users have already registered in our personal account. You can see all your apartments, plots, cottages through your personal account. In your personal account on the Rosreestr website, you can immediately submit an application for correcting an error if you find one in the USRN records about your objects - without waiting until you receive an error in the payment.
I don’t see my apartment in the personal account of the copyright holder at all. Although the tax on it comes.
They come to me for a personal appointment with similar questions. It happens that the right arose in the 90s as a result of privatization, but the data on such real estate did not get into the state register. Let me remind you that the registry began to be maintained in 1999. First, on paper and locally in each region, and since the end of the 2000s, already in electronic form according to uniform rules throughout the country. In different periods of time there were different requirements of regulations for the registration of real estate. In the 90s, as a rule, ownership was fixed in the BTI or in the municipality. And such a document might not fall into the hands of Rosreestr.
But if you want an entry in the register to appear and there is no confusion with your property, you must either come to the multifunctional center (MFC) with the document-base, or submit an application for entering information about the previously arisen right through Rosreestr services on the rosreestr portal. ru.
And the absence of this record is fraught with something? The same question arises for land plots. People have evidence from the 90s, but there are no records and people are worried ...
In order not to worry, it is better to enter all the information about your real estate into the USRN. Why? It's not just about taxes. For example, in Moscow, a renovation procedure has now been launched. And, of course, it is better that the state has the most accurate information about the real estate of citizens in such houses. If we are talking about land plots, then of course, it is also better that the boundaries of your site are indicated in a single register. Although, I repeat, the law does not oblige to do this. But the site is not in a vacuum, and so that you do not argue with your neighbors or anyone else about the boundaries, it is better that these boundaries are in the registry.
I'll give you an example. There is a Far Eastern hectare project. Within the framework of this project, a citizen can choose any free site using the information system "To the Far East". And as a result, the municipality does not always understand: in the place where the citizen would like to get his Far Eastern hectare, are there those very previously recorded plots without exact boundaries, information about which is not in the register? There may be a conflict.
Or another example. The municipality needs to build a road. Urban planning documents are being prepared on where this road will pass. When they are worked out, the amount of compensation that will have to be paid to owners whose plots fall into the construction zone is also taken into account. And the designers do not know about your real estate. That is, physically it is, but there is no information about it in the state information resources. As a result, both citizens and the municipality have problems.
Are there any plans to digitize everything that is now on paper?
There are such plans. As part of the federal targeted program with our partners from the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, we have created a special platform for storing electronic images of paper documents. Work has begun. In the Krasnodar Territory, for example, this is our best territory for digitizing archives - the entire archive there is already in electronic form.
WORK ON ERRORS
We are talking about the fact that it would be good to clarify the boundaries of their sites and enter them in the register. And we have a lot of complaints about cadastral engineers. People paid money to these specialists, and then problems began - it is not possible to register the site, your experts say - they say, the mistake of the cadastral engineer ...
We are also hostages of the situation with the quality of work of cadastral engineers. This is another myth - that we control them. There are self-regulatory organizations where every cadastral engineer must be a member and who are responsible for them.
Legislation is changing, it is not getting simpler, and at the end of 2016 we actually recorded a large surge of negative decisions on real estate cadastral registration. And when we saw that about 70% of refusals and suspensions of Rosreestr are the fault of engineers, we began to conduct master classes, seminars, meetings with them, and analyze typical errors. As a result, according to the data at the end of 2017, a halving of the number of suspensions and refusals in cadastral registration was recorded.
What is the state doing for its part to help people, owners, not to waste extra money and time? We have provided federal funds to subsidize complex cadastral works. These are works not on one site, but, for example, on the cadastral quarter or on the whole for the settlement. In 2017, we launched such pilot projects in three regions. In the Tyva Republic, Astrakhan and Belgorod regions. As a result, for these regions, the exact boundaries of land plots appeared in the USRN and some of the registry errors were corrected, as well as the taxable base was clarified.
ABOUT BLACK REALTORS AND GUARANTEES OF THE STATE
We have another huge topic on which there are many questions - fraud. When a new law on real estate registration appeared on January 1, 2017, there were a lot of fears associated with the fact that now there is no usual paper certificate of ownership, but there is some kind of electronic entry in the register. People began to fear that someone would sell their apartment - and they would not even know. What do you think about these fears?
Certificates of ownership were abolished not by the law "On State Registration of Real Estate" from January 1, 2017, but by changes in legislation from July 15, 2016. Now registration or transfer of ownership is confirmed by an extract from the USRN.
As for countering scammers, I will say that you can come to us and, in order to sleep more calmly, write a statement about the impossibility of selling your apartment without your personal participation. And a checkbox appears in the register, prohibiting any actions in relation to your property (even changing a simple characteristic), without your personal participation, for example, by proxy. I recommend everyone to write such a statement.
It turns out that purely theoretically, if the ban is not entered into the register, dishonest people have the opportunity to take away the apartment?
Well no, of course not. Still, this is not a mass phenomenon. Yes, there are black realtors, there are outright scammers. But according to court statistics, for example, for 2017, only about 100 vindication claims were filed for housing. This is when property is claimed from someone else's illegal possession. These are not so frightening and shocking figures.
But really, Rosreestr is not responsible for the first part of the real estate registration procedure - the acceptance of the parties to the transaction. Multifunctional centers are responsible for this part. And we cannot guarantee that a fraudster did not come to the MFC with a fake passport or with a fake power of attorney.
Let's get back to the certificate of registration of ownership. So what is protecting my ownership of the apartment now?
The rights of citizens are protected by the state. Not paper and not electronics, but the state. This is stated in the 8th and 35th articles of the Constitution. The Civil Code deciphered what it means to protect the right by the state. This means that there is a special register - this is directly stated in the Civil Code - and this register is maintained by specially authorized persons. How are your rights protected? It is impossible to arbitrarily enter any information into the register to the registrar. Only within the framework of relevant life situations, after conducting a certain legal examination, the registrar makes a record that there is your right to your apartment.
Further, the package of documents with which you came to the MFC is stored in the register. Or which you, having signed with your enhanced electronic signature, sent to us in electronic form. If a dispute arises, these documents will be presented to the court, confirming either the transfer of the right to real estate, or the emergence of this right.
What is a paper certificate? This is only a confirmation that on such and such a date the right is registered in the register. In other words, if you received a certificate of ownership of an apartment in 2014, and in 2015 decided to sell it, then your buyer still had to apply to Rosreestr for an extract that was relevant for a specific date in 2015. Therefore, state guarantees are not in paper, but in the established system of keeping records of rights.
We have many more questions...
I would like to invite all readers of Komsomolskaya Pravda and all listeners of Radio KP to visit us on March 1st. We have an open day, a single day of Rosreestr consultations. We are waiting for everyone with all your questions at our reception, the addresses can be found on our website.
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov and Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev introduced the new head of the department, Victoria Abramchenko, to the staff of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr).
Victoria Abramchenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation - Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography by order of the Government of the Russian Federation.
“Rosreestr faces an important task - to help businesses develop, and the state to protect the title of owner. With a protected title of owner, the department also has a function - to create a high-quality database of real estate, so that the tax service can see how to charge tax on it,” said First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
The Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev noted that the creation of this position will allow to combine the regulatory work that is being carried out at the site of the ministry with the practical work to create a unified real estate information system carried out by Rosreestr.
Alexey Ulyukaev said that Victoria Abramchenko will supervise the work of the Real Estate Department at the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
Victoria Abramchenko thanked the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economic Development for their trust. “The Service is faced with a difficult task - in a short period of time, in 2.5 months, we must ensure the creation of a unified real estate registration system. The second important task of Rosreestr is to ensure the quality of the data of the unified real estate register, which is necessary for the effective development of the real estate market,” said Victoria Abramchenko.
Victoria Abramchenko has been working in the field of land and property relations since 1998. Prior to her appointment as Head of Rosreestr, she served as Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. In 2011 - 2012, Victoria Abramchenko worked as Deputy Head of Rosreestr.
The event, at which the new head of Rosreestr was presented, was attended by the leadership of the central office of Rosreestr, its subordinate institutions and territorial bodies.
Brief biography of Victoria Abramchenko:
In 1998 she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. In 2004 - the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
In 1998 - 2000 she worked in the Committee for Land Resources and Land Management of Roskomzem.
In 2000 - 2001 she worked at the Federal State Institution "Land Cadastral Chamber".
In 2001 - 2005, she held various positions, including the position of Deputy Head of Department in Roszemkadastre and Rosnedvizhimost.
In 2005 - 2011, she held various positions at the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, including the position of Deputy Director of the Real Estate Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
In 2011 - 2012 - Deputy Head of Rosreestr.
In 2012 - 2015 - Director of the Department of Land Policy, Property Relations and State Property of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
In 2015-2016 she worked as Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
She was awarded a diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation, an honorary diploma of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and a letter of gratitude from the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 10, 2014 No. 498).
Married, has a son.
According to Rosreestr, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov and Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev introduced the new head of the department, Victoria Abramchenko, to the staff of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr). Victoria Abramchenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation - Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography by order of the Government of the Russian Federation.
“Rosreestr faces an important task - to help businesses develop, and the state to protect the title of owner. With a protected title of owner, the department also has a function - to create a high-quality database of real estate, so that the tax service can see how to charge tax on it,” said First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
The Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev noted that the creation of this position will allow to combine the regulatory work that is being carried out at the site of the ministry with the practical work to create a unified real estate information system carried out by Rosreestr. Alexey Ulyukaev said that Victoria Abramchenko will supervise the work of the Real Estate Department at the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
Victoria Abramchenko thanked the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economic Development for their trust. “The Service is faced with a difficult task - in a short period of time, in 2.5 months, we must ensure the creation of a unified real estate registration system. The second important task of Rosreestr is to ensure the quality of the data of the unified real estate register, which is necessary for the effective development of the real estate market,” said Victoria Abramchenko.
Victoria Abramchenko has been working in the field of land and property relations since 1998. Prior to her appointment as Head of Rosreestr, she served as Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. In 2011 - 2012, Victoria Abramchenko worked as Deputy Head of Rosreestr.
The event, at which the new head of Rosreestr was presented, was attended by the leadership of the central office of Rosreestr, its subordinate institutions and territorial bodies.
Brief biography of Victoria Abramchenko:
In 1998 she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. In 2004 - the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
In 1998 - 2000 she worked in the Committee for Land Resources and Land Management of Roskomzem.
In 2000 - 2001 she worked at the Federal State Institution "Land Cadastral Chamber".
In 2001 - 2005, she held various positions, including the position of Deputy Head of Department in Roszemkadastre and Rosnedvizhimost.
In 2005 - 2011, she held various positions at the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, including the position of Deputy Director of the Real Estate Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
In 2011 - 2012 - Deputy Head of Rosreestr.
In 2012 - 2015 - Director of the Department of Land Policy, Property Relations and State Property of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
In 2015-2016 she worked as Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
She was awarded a diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation, an honorary diploma of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and a letter of gratitude from the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 10, 2014 No. 498).
And she spoke in detail about the work of her department.
The arrogance of the swindlers who are squeezing apartments from Muscovites has reached its apogee. One of the latest cases: at the beginning of January 2017, Viktoria Kuznetsova rented out her “odnushka” on Krasnobogatyrskaya Street (she signed a lease agreement, followed all the formalities), and she herself went to live in a dacha. For three months the tenant regularly paid money, and then stopped. It soon became clear that he changed the locks of the front door, re-registered the apartment for himself and ... sold it! Now the members of the Public Council of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow and human rights activists are helping to return Kuznetsova's apartment, but this process, alas, is long and painful.
Such sad, if not scary, stories can now be avoided with the help of Rosreestr's innovation. The owner will be informed about attempts to do at least something with his property, and he himself can remotely establish a ban on any actions with his housing. And the new bills are designed to protect those who only buy an apartment with a dubious past, and return part of the money spent to those who have already done this and whose housing was taken away by the court.
About this and other housing conflicts - our conversation with the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia, the head of Rosreestr Victoria ABRAMCHENKO.
Victoria Abramchenko.
— Victoria Valerievna, it has been a year since you took the post of Deputy Minister of Economic Development and headed Rosreestr. This happened on the eve of Russia's transition to a new real estate registration system. We've been receiving letters from readers that the transition is, let's say, not very smooth. What difficulties did you face at that moment? Have you managed to overcome them?
— The main problem is that we had to train all registrars very quickly, in two months, to work according to the new rules. The second difficulty is that electronic services for the provision of services through the Rosreestr website were not ready for the new requirements. But nevertheless, from January 1 of this year, that is, from the moment the new law came into force, all citizens were able to register real estate according to the new rules.
Electronic services that could be used were introduced gradually and have been fully operational since March. Now not only everything has improved, but we are ahead of the curve. The average term for the provision of a service for registering rights in Russia was 6 working days, while the normative one (provided for in the new law) was 7. In 2016, let me remind you, the normative term for registering rights was 10 working days.
- One of the problems that was raised in the letters of our readers is refusals and suspensions in the provision of public services. Are there any changes in this issue?
Yes, and this is the work of the whole team. I introduced the personal responsibility of the heads of territorial bodies for the quality of public services. Moreover, the personal responsibility of heads of registration departments in territorial bodies for the actions of registrars has been introduced. Thus, a double check of documents is now being carried out before a decision is made. The new law also helped. Now, at the legislative level, an exhaustive list of grounds for suspensions and refusals in the provision of public services has been established. The state registrar of rights is obliged to indicate the reason only from this list.
As a result, there were fewer failures. In Russia, when registering rights (more than 17 million registration actions in 9 months of 2017), the share of suspensions decreased by 23%, refusals - by 27%. With cadastral registration (about 30 million accounting actions for 9 months of 2017), the share of suspensions decreased by 6%, refusals - by 14%. In Moscow, for example, the share of failures in accounting decreased by 2.3 times.
- Over the past years, Rosreestr has been rocked by corruption scandals. How did you approach solving this problem?
— What is corruption in Rosreestr? This is primarily when people are provided with services for money, through intermediaries. This is what we began to fight first of all in those territories where such facts were recorded. This is the Leningrad and Moscow regions, first of all. Significant anti-corruption work has been carried out in these regions. As a result, it is now possible to receive the services of Rosreestr quickly and efficiently there.
We are now actively developing contactless technologies, when customers communicate with Rosreestr using electronic services. Everything is transparent here, there is no ground for corruption manifestations.
Statistics confirm the correctness of the path we have chosen: the number of criminal cases initiated has decreased from 24 in 2016 to 12 this year.
Rosreestr employees at work. Photo: rosreestr.ru
“But if you enter the query “registration with Rosreestr” right now on the Internet, the search engine will return hundreds of intermediary sites offering to speed up the receipt of public services for a fee!
We are aware of this issue and are addressing it. The volume of this market, according to our data, exceeds 2 billion rubles a year. There were even twin sites that are very similar to the official site of Rosreestr. We even came up with a new term: "resale of information." That is, the data that a person can easily receive in Rosreestr from the Unified Real Estate Registration system are resold by intermediaries with a multiple mark-up. We have prepared a number of amendments to the law so that such situations do not happen again. Amendments will also be made to the Code of Administrative Offenses - for such intermediary services, firms will be held administratively liable and heavy fines will be imposed.
- Do I understand correctly that now they are making money, in fact, out of thin air?
- Yes, and from inconsistencies in the regulatory framework. Our population, unfortunately, does not always have the necessary legal literacy: in cases where it is possible to quickly and conveniently obtain information from the state, it turns to firms and pays huge sums for this. Therefore, we are working to improve the legal culture of our citizens. We ask our territorial bodies to communicate more with people.
- But how? You have reduced the number of employees just to switch to a contactless method of work ...
— Consultations can be remote, using, for example, Skype. Some territorial bodies (about ten, but Moscow is not yet one of them) have already introduced this practice. We also asked the MFC to allocate separate rooms where the registrars would sit and, as they say, in front of everyone, they would consult people for free.
Plus, we have a call center that operates around the clock in all regions of Russia. There you can always consult. The call center is open 24 hours, seven days a week, and the waiting time is less than a minute. I tried to call myself, and it turned out that we have some employees who are able to answer in English.
To interact with businesses, a special portal has been launched through which requests from registered users are received. All appeals are considered in the central office of Rosreestr under my personal control. Currently, among the users of the portal are mainly large developers, AHML, ASI.
- But now it will not be possible to get an appointment with someone from the leadership of Rosreestr?
- Vice versa. I used to receive citizens once a quarter, but now I switched to a once a month regime and recommended that all heads of territorial bodies do the same. Too many people face serious problems, and sometimes only interaction with leaders allows them to be solved. As a rule, visitors come who have complex stories. Both notaries and realtors are involved there, everything revolves around family conflicts, where, as a rule, there is already more than one court decision. We always try to help these people, even if this is not only the problem of Rosreestr.
- There are fewer registrars - maybe they began to receive more in order to reduce corruption risks?
There are about 11,000 registrars now. We have created a register of registrars. There is data on when a person was hired, whether an electronic signature key was issued to a given registrar of rights, how many decisions and what specific decisions he makes.
Rosreestr is in 28th place out of 37 federal agencies, significantly behind other departments.
So far, unfortunately, registrars' salaries are lower than, say, police officers. This leads to the fact that our people go to work in the MFC and other departments. Over the past two years, the outflow of specialists is more than three thousand people. This is a worrying trend. The backbone of experts in the system should remain. To do this, we plan to raise wages.
— Do you analyze in which cities and towns registrars are most successful in their tasks? Are you expanding best practices to other territories?
Thanks for the question, it's very important. The legislation has changed many times, and the system has become difficult even for the workers themselves. And ordinary people cannot understand it. Therefore, we set two tasks. First: to summarize the best practices in the subjects. For example, in Tatarstan or Veliky Novgorod, this is work with the MFC, in Bashkiria - with cadastral engineers. Moreover, the region that is advanced in one of the indicators may be at the bottom of the rating for others. This year, 20 best practices have been prepared for implementation everywhere.
The second direction is the description of private life situations. This is a clear recipe for what to do in a given situation. Need to make an inheritance? Describes what documents, where and how to bring. How to sell an apartment where young children are registered. And again, a step-by-step instruction describing all the nuances, possible difficulties and their solutions.
Service "Life Situations" in the near future will be available to all Russians on the agency's website.
- The service "Personal Account" appeared on the website of Rosreestr. What for?
“This is a modern way to get away from live communication and an opportunity to quickly get our services. Since the launch of the service in early 2017, 350,000 unique users have already registered in the Personal Account. Now any of them can see information about their property. If something happens to her, the person will instantly receive a notification. In the "Personal Account" you can "hang a flag" on the impossibility of making transactions with real estate without the personal participation of the copyright holder. That is, without leaving home, you can protect yourself as much as possible. This option allows you to put up a barrier for scammers who act on fake powers of attorney.
- Would Kuznetsova's "Personal Account" help?
“Everything that happened to her happened according to forged documents, and nothing else. The existence of a restriction on actions with real estate without a personal presence, filed through the "Personal Account", could detain criminals, stop them and prevent a transaction from being made without the knowledge of a woman. She would immediately receive a signal that someone is trying to do something with her apartment.
- What other advanced technologies does Rosreestr introduce for the convenience of citizens?
- Rosreestr is generally one of the pioneers in terms of the implementation of electronic public services. We exchange 800 million data a year with various federal agencies! It is clear that for this, systems and technologies must be advanced.
Together with Sberbank, we have developed a project that allows us to halve the time for registration of rights to apartments purchased using credit funds. Bank managers themselves communicate with Rosreestr electronically. This allowed us to reduce the interest on the mortgage. A citizen only needs to come to the bank office once, without visiting Rosreestr or the MFC. Plus, a mortgage on secondary housing is also easier - in this way the bank also checks the purity of the transaction. Thanks to the project, citizens submit documents for registration of rights at bank offices or developers' offices when registering real estate without visiting Rosreestr. In the Moscow region, as part of a project with Sberbank, an electronic registration “factory” was created, which made it possible to reduce the period from the actual 12 business days in February to 1 day in October.
Another achievement of Rosreestr is participation in a pilot project on the use of blockchain technology when registering contracts for participation in shared construction. Our department, together with VEB and AHML, are working on the creation of a blockchain solution that will significantly reduce the time of interaction with the equity construction compensation fund. The project is being implemented with the aim of strengthening additional protection of the rights and legitimate interests of participants in shared construction.
— How does Rosreestr solve the dilemma with land law compliance checks? On the one hand, inspections are pressure on businesses, on the other hand, a decrease in their number can provoke all sorts of crooks to squat, illegal construction, misuse of land, etc.
- In general, the land fund of the Russian Federation is very large - 17 million square kilometers. Checking all these lands is difficult. But first of all, land inspectors (there are now more than 3 thousand of them) monitor areas where, according to statistics, the frequency of land violations is the highest. These are, firstly, the lands around large cities. Secondly, lands where landfills spontaneously appear. Third, agricultural land.
The uniform of the tsarist engineers - the forerunners of modern land inspectors. Photo: rosreestr.ru
- If you draw a parallel, how the land inspector worked in the days of tsarist Russia and how it is now, what has changed?
- Previously, this was not done by inspectors, but by boundary engineers. These were people of the nobility who were allowed to resolve any land disputes. They were treated with great respect.
- I saw their uniforms in the Rosreestr Museum - they are very impressive. Are your employees out of uniform today?
— No, there is no uniform at the moment. We thought about returning it, all the more there is a reason: on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Rosreestr, which will be celebrated next year, and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the rights registration system in Russia. But Rosreestr is geodesy and cartography, it is control and supervision, it is cadastral registration, it is registration of rights. And to come up with a form that combines these components is quite difficult. It takes a long time to work with heraldists.
— A common problem for property owners is an overestimated cadastral value. How does Rosreestr help citizens and businesses solve it?
Rosreestr is not involved in cadastral valuation. This work is carried out by appraisers commissioned by regional authorities. Now budgetary institutions are being created that will be responsible for this. Rosreestr participates in the work of commissions for pre-trial contestation of the cost. In 2017, the number of positive decisions, that is, those made in favor of the applicant, is more than 50%.
The Office offers several ways to find out the cadastral value. Firstly, in electronic form on the website of Rosreestr: in the "Personal Account" of the copyright holder, in an extract from the USRN or in real time - using the "Information about the real estate object online" service. Information from the Unified Real Estate Register on the cadastral value of real estate can also be obtained by personally contacting the office of the Federal Cadastral Chamber of Rosreestr or the MFC.
- Has the "forest amnesty" that has recently come into effect has already begun to operate in practice? Do local officials understand how to comply with the law?
— The law came into force on August 11. I really don't like the name "forest amnesty". It does not accurately reflect the essence of the law. He does not amnesty anyone, but protects the rights of conscientious citizens whose land plots intersect with those of the forest fund. The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Federal Forestry Agency issued several clarifications on the application of the law.
- There is a trend when representatives of religious communities settle in the forest, enclose a huge territory for themselves, build houses there, plant pastures ... Rosreestr reveals such facts and fights them?
- Certainly. It is not necessary to walk around a large territory of the country with your feet - you can do it with the help of a satellite, use unmanned technologies.
In general, everything you said about is allowed only for indigenous and small peoples. In other cases, from the point of view of the Civil Code, this is an unauthorized construction with all the ensuing consequences.
- Now a lot of attention is attracted to a draft law that protects the rights of conscientious homebuyers. What is its essence and when is it expected to be adopted?
— The adoption of the law will protect the rights of many people. Only in Moscow, about 160 lawsuits are now being considered: due to the flaws in privatization, bona fide purchasers are forced to prove their rights to an apartment in court. Several owners may change before the crime is revealed. The last one in this chain is, as a rule, a bona fide purchaser; so, after the adoption of the law, he will not go out into the street because of scammers not identified in time. Many people will now breathe easy, because until now the transaction with such real estate was perceived as a kind of dangerous and risky operation.
We hope that the law will be adopted in the autumn parliamentary session.
There is another bill that is planned to be considered in conjunction with it. It provides for compensation for those bona fide purchasers from whom the apartment has already been claimed (before the adoption of the first bill). It is assumed that they will receive compensation from the treasury of the Russian Federation.
Rosreestr
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov and Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev introduced the new head of the department, Victoria Abramchenko, to the staff of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr). Victoria Abramchenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation - Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography by order of the Government of the Russian Federation.
“Rosreestr faces an important task – to help businesses develop, and the state to protect the title of owner. With a protected title of owner, the department also has a function - to create a high-quality database of real estate, so that the tax service can see how to charge tax on it,” First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov noted.
The Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev noted that the creation of this position will allow to combine the regulatory work that is being carried out at the site of the ministry with the practical work to create a unified real estate information system carried out by Rosreestr. Alexey Ulyukaev said that Victoria Abramchenko will supervise the work of the Real Estate Department at the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
Victoria Abramchenko thanked the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economic Development for their trust. “The Service is faced with a difficult task - we must ensure the creation of a unified real estate registration system in a short period of time, in 2.5 months. The second important task of Rosreestr is to ensure the quality of the data of the unified real estate register, which is necessary for the effective development of the real estate market,” said Victoria Abramchenko.
Victoria Abramchenko has been working in the field of land and property relations since 1998. Prior to her appointment as Head of Rosreestr, she served as Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. In 2011-2012, Victoria Abramchenko worked as Deputy Head of Rosreestr.
The event, at which the new head of Rosreestr was presented, was attended by the leadership of the central office of Rosreestr, its subordinate institutions and territorial bodies.
Brief biography of Victoria Abramchenko:
In 1998 she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. In 2004 - the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
In 1998 - 2000 she worked in the Committee for Land Resources and Land Management of Roskomzem.
In 2000 - 2001 she worked at the Federal State Institution "Land Cadastral Chamber".
In 2001-2005, she held various positions, including the position of Deputy Head of Department in Roszemkadastre and Rosnedvizhimost.
In 2005-2011, she held various positions at the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, including the position of Deputy Director of the Real Estate Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
In 2011 - 2012 - Deputy Head of Rosreestr.
In 2012 - 2015 - Director of the Department of Land Policy, Property Relations and State Property of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
In 2015-2016 she worked as Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
She was awarded a diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation, an honorary diploma of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and a letter of gratitude from the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 10, 2014 No. 498).
Married, has a son.
About Rosreestre
The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) is a federal executive body that performs the functions of state registration of rights to real estate and transactions with it, the provision of public services in the field of maintaining the state real estate cadastre, conducting state cadastral registration of real estate, land management , state monitoring of land, navigation support of the transport complex, as well as the functions of state cadastral valuation, federal state supervision in the field of geodesy and cartography, state land supervision, supervision of the activities of self-regulatory organizations of appraisers, control of the activities of self-regulatory organizations of arbitration managers. The subordinate institutions of Rosreestr are the Federal State Budgetary Institution "FKP Rosreestr" and the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Center for Geodesy, Cartography and SDI".
