One of the areas of practice of attorney Yuri A. Arutyunov is support in real estate transactions, as well as legal assistance in any disputes relating to the acquisition, modification or termination of rights to immovable property.
The most common problems my clients come to me with:
a) Shared construction:
- Recovery of a penalty under a Shared Construction Agreement (DDU)
- Bankruptcy of the Developer
- An apartment handed over by the Developer with defects
- Termination of a shared construction agreement and refund of money
- The Developer is missing the deadlines for handing over the apartment
- Legal support in purchasing an apartment under a Shared Construction Agreement
b) Purchasing property on the secondary market
- Terminating an apartment sale and purchase agreement
- Fraud in the sale of an apartment
- Terminating an agreement with an estate agency
- Fraud in estate agency activities
- Registering ownership of an apartment
- Expert examination of the quality of the structures of an apartment building
- Purchasing an apartment held in common shared ownership
- Legal support in purchasing an apartment, with a full legal analysis of possible risks
c) Gifting real estate
- Gifting an apartment and other real estate
- Having a gift agreement declared invalid
- Terminating a gift agreement for immovable property
- Establishing the lawfulness of a gift agreement
- Legal support in the procedure for gifting immovable property and registering title
d) Establishing title to immovable property:
- Establishing title to an apartment, a house or other residential premises
- Registering ownership of a garage
- Legalising an unauthorised building
- Registering title to a household property
- Establishing title to a land plot
Procedure for legal assistance in real estate disputes:
Legal analysis
– review of the available documents in order to identify real legal grounds for satisfying my client's claims
– selection of the relevant legislation and case law for the specific situation, taking into account the particulars of the dispute
– determining the position in the case and the work plan
Collection of the necessary information and documents
– a set of measures to gather evidence, including requests to authorised organisations, as well as to state authorities, carrying out (where necessary) a construction and technical, land management or other expert examination, and obtaining written evidence and documents that the client does not have.
Pre-trial dispute settlement
– a number of real estate disputes require a mandatory pre-trial approach to the Defendant.
Court proceedings
– representing the Client's interests in Court, carrying out the full range of actions aimed at achieving a positive result: drafting procedural documents, filing the necessary motions and involving the necessary persons in the proceedings.
Enforcement of the Court decision:
– obtaining the Court Decision that has entered into legal force, and subsequent registration of the rights acquired by my client with the state authorities.