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Despite the fact that the date of entry into force of the Law on hostels could not agree, the author of the resonant project Galina Khovanskaya, announced the consideration of new amendments to the housing code designed to determine the legal status of apartments. The deputy does not exclude that disputes on this issue will be no less.

On April 2, at a meeting of the College of the Ministry of Construction, the chairman of the Duma committee on housing policy and housing and communal services announced the development of a new document. “Today we are completing the epic with hostels, we still have an epic with apartments on the threshold. Well, my position is absolutely clear - there should not be corruption when coordinating these projects, ”she said .

In early March, it became known that the owners of the apartments want to give the same guarantees as the owners of ordinary apartments. The fact that the relevant bill plans to submit to the State Construction Committee of the State Duma on natural resources, property and land relations to the Ministry of Construction, said the head of the committee Nikolai Nikolaev.

“These are the premises have non -residential status, but in fact - apartments that people buy and live there,” he explained . Now this type of real estate is not protected by the law on shared construction. If a project bankrupt in which there are ordinary apartments and apartments, then buyers of the latter lose all funds. “The apartments are outlawed on shared construction,” the deputy said.

There are several differences between apartments and apartments: legal are related to non -residential legal status of apartments, economic are related to the difference in the market and cadastral value of such objects, as well as the features of payment of utilities and taxes. Finally, the requirements for the design and construction of apartments are seriously different.

Now many developers are building exactly apartments, because it is cheaper, the requirements for the social structure for such projects are minimal. Construction standards for apartments are more loyal - this applies to the necessary level of illumination of apartments, the number of parking spaces, provision of schools, kindergartens, clinics.

At the same time, most of the apartment complexes are sold for permanent residence, and problems arise from buyers. In fact, they own commercial real estate, so the rent and taxation is higher than in apartments. In addition, apartments are officially considered non -residential premises in which you cannot register.

“Let's honestly say that apartments are not housing,” Khovanskaya voiced her position. “Citizens buy apartments, as they are cheaper than apartments. But cheap cheese happens in a mousetrap. ” At the beginning of the year, she already called the sale of apartments fraud.

Service apartments, or apart hotels that involve temporary residence, in the Moscow market, according to Penny Lane Realty, is less than 10%. In St. Petersburg, the share of service apartments according to the results of 2018, according to Knight Frank, reached 47%.

Recall that the law prohibiting the use of residential premises in apartment buildings to provide hotel services, entered in parliament in 2015, the State Duma adopted only on March 6. However, the problems did not end there. The Federation Council was not arranged by the date of its entry into force - March 24 - and the project was rejected . Senators proposed extending the transition period until January 1, 2020, the State Duma chose as the final date on July 1, but the senators agreed to shift it only on October 1 - as a result, after long negotiations, the conciliation commission decided to stop on this date.