Large developers are interested in obtaining land.
Hundreds of deceived shareholders and equity holders in the Sverdlovsk region were offered to wait another year. The regional authorities have postponed the previously planned plan to provide this category of the population with housing for 2023. Moreover, if it is not so difficult to solve the issue of resettlement with equity holders – there are a couple of dozen of them left, then with shareholders, including those who have issued rights to illegally built real estate and land, new developers and investors have to enter into lengthy negotiations and auctions. Residents point to developers’ attempts to buy their property “at reduced prices, or for pennies.” Builders, in turn, talk about extremely difficult negotiations and immoderate appetites of individual property owners. Moreover, the bulk of conflict situations unfold around the houses of the now convicted Vladimir Vorobyov, a significant part of which is located in the Uralmash area. Developers hope that the mechanisms used in the integrated development of territories will partly resolve the disputes that flare up around problematic houses. However, while the CRT scheme in Yekaterinburg is only at the initial stage of implementation, the authorities are postponing its application to residents of illegally built houses.
According to a government official, since the inclusion in the register of equity holders has been extended until the end of 2022, “the current list may increase by another 10-20 names.” It is now planned to resettle the affected citizens in new apartments before the end of 2023, although earlier the deadline was set for the current year.
However, the deputies asked to specify the data. So, Arkady Chernetsky recalled that these statistics do not take into account defrauded shareholders. Together with them, the affected citizens, according to the regional Ministry of Construction, are 330, although at the beginning of 2020 there were about a thousand of them. The main contribution to the resettlement, referring to the statement, was previously made by RGS-Academic, Atomstroykompleks and other large developers who received land plots in return.
At present, the bulk of the affected citizens, included by the Ministry of Construction in the supply schedule, are buyers of apartments in the houses of the convicted developer Vladimir Vorobyov. He built multi-apartment two- and three-story houses under the guise of individual residential development in order to avoid project approval.
Vorobyov attracted funds from citizens under various schemes, including loan agreements. The houses themselves are subject to demolition, and the buyers of apartments did not fall into the category of deceived equity holders at all and could count on compensation for the funds spent only after the appearance of a separate regional law, initiated by the regional authorities specifically to solve the problems of this group of citizens. In total, the list of the Ministry of Construction now includes 223 people affected by the actions of the merchant.
Under an agreement with the Ministry, Nizhneisetsky Prud Specialized Developer LLC is paying compensation to buyers of apartments in Vorobyov’s houses. Currently, the company has received data on 130 citizens.
It is worth noting that, for example, small studio apartments in such houses 10 years ago were sold at a price of about 700 thousand rubles, and “the quality of housing at the same time was low” – the houses, in particular, were not connected to a centralized sewerage system. Despite this, when large developers attempted to buy land, residents often reported extremely small amounts of compensation and the actual refusal of transactions.
Several dozen owners of apartments in Vorobyov’s houses, through the courts, nevertheless formalized the rights to land and property, in some cases even completed the network at their own expense and connected the houses to gas supply and centralized sewerage. When the Brusnika company tried to buy a plot in Uralmash under one of these houses, the source of the publication shares, the price increased from 7-8 to 40 million rubles. After acquiring the plots, the developer erected the residential complex “Northern Lights” on them.
The developers explain the restrained interest in acquiring apartments and land from shareholders and equity holders who have registered ownership rights in troubled houses (about 70 people did this), the developers explain by the extreme complexity of the dialogue.
Recall that the law on the integrated development of territories (KRT) provides for the assessment of all property according to uniform rules and the proposal to replace housing of no less area. Cash compensation is also possible.
However, the practice of applying this law in the Sverdlovsk region has not yet been tested, and it is not being applied to the troubled houses of deceived shareholders. The Ministry of Construction also notes that the development of each site with the houses of Vorobyov and similar developers after compensation payments to citizens “will be considered separately.”
