Russian State Duma deputy Sergei Gavrilov has reminded property owners to check their data in the Unified State Register of Real Estate before selling an apartment, house or land plot. He told broadcaster RT that sellers should cross-check the register against the sales contract and the property's actual condition.
Gavrilov chairs the State Duma committee on property, land and property relations. He said that if a registrar made a typo while transferring data from the original documents, correcting the technical error takes up to three working days.
Registry errors versus technical mistakes
Gavrilov drew a distinction between such clerical slips and what he described as a registry error, which occurs when incorrect coordinates or the wrong area were already recorded in a land survey or technical plan. He said fixing that kind of mistake usually requires a new plan from a cadastral engineer, and that a dispute with a neighbor over a boundary line may need to go to court.
He also said that since March 2025, registration of any transaction involving a land plot is suspended if the plot's boundaries are not listed in the register. Gavrilov added that particular care is needed with housing bought using maternity capital.
What the property register tracks
The Unified State Register of Real Estate, known by its Russian abbreviation EGRN, is Russia's central database of property ownership, boundaries and characteristics, maintained by the federal registration service Rosreestr. Maternity capital is a state payment introduced to support families with children, and the money is often used to buy or improve housing, with rules requiring that any property bought with it be shared with the children.
Related housing announcement
Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that housing completions in the Far East and the Arctic have risen sharply, with the volume of new property in the two regions doubling over the past six years.
