Occupants plan to set a deadline for re-registration of real estate in Crimea

<span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The occupiers in Sevastopol are planning to set a deadline for re-registration of real estate rights registered before the annexation of Crimea</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>in 2014. The absence of such a deadline currently creates legal uncertainty regarding property.

This was reported by the monitoring channel Krymsky Viter.

The head of the Kremlin-controlled Sevastopol parliament, Vladimir Nemtsev, said it was necessary to set a deadline for registering real estate rights in Russian state registers that arose before the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in March 2014.

On February 11, an expanded meeting of the Council on Integration of the "reunited subjects" under the Federation Council of the Russian Federation was held in Simferopol. The event was chaired by First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Andrey Yatskin. It was attended by the Kremlin-appointed leaders of Crimea, Sevastopol and the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, as well as representatives of federal ministries.

During his report, Nemtsev noted that after the end of the transition period, the most problematic issue remains the registration of rights to real estate that arose before March 2014. He suggested setting a deadline for submitting documents for registration of such rights in Crimea and Sevastopol.

According to him, the absence of state registration in the Unified State Register of Real Estate of the Russian Federation creates legal uncertainty regarding the status of property. At the same time, Russian legislation does not currently set clear deadlines for re-registration of Ukrainian documents in Crimea and Sevastopol.

In early 2024, Russian senators drafted a bill that provided for mandatory registration of real estate by January 1, 2026 for residents of Crimea and Sevastopol, but the document was not adopted.

At the same time, for residents of the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, the current regulations of the Russian Federation set a deadline for submitting documents for state registration of real estate rights - until January 1, 2028.

In the occupied Crimea, Russia is also massively nationalizing the real estate of Ukrainian citizens, even those who purchased their homes after 2022. Often, the victims are Russian citizens who wanted to own an apartment or house on the southern coast of Crimea or in Sevastopol.

Анна Бальчінос