When choosing a future home, the first thing a buyer pays attention to is its geographical location and size. To decide on a purchase without wasting extra time examining all available options, you can find out the area of the apartment at the address online. We tell you how to do this simply and quickly.
Apartment area - what will the indicator affect?
The area of the purchased apartment is an official technical indicator that is freely available. It affects not only the comfort and convenience of future residents. The footage of housing turns into a serious economic indicator for the family budget:
- The cadastral value is calculated from the size of the area - the amount of property tax directly depends on it;
- Some utility bills (for example, heating or maintenance) are calculated based on the area.
In addition, when purchasing housing with an open plan from a developer, the total area will help you determine in advance the number of possible rooms and other premises.
What is a home series and why is it needed?
In the history of Russian housing construction, serial housing has been built en masse since the early 50s. Depending on the tasks being solved by the government at that time, several standard series of houses, apartments in which have similar characteristics, became widespread.
According to statistics, standard apartment buildings make up more than 70% of the total housing stock in the Russian Federation.
This or that series belonging to different houses means that the residential buildings were built according to a certain standard design and have similar parameters. In documents, the series looks like a specific code consisting of letters and numbers.
This code contains basic information about the house (year of construction, number of floors, apartment layout, etc.), necessary not only for construction documentation, but also when registering with the BTI.
The letters of the code indicate the type of building and the materials used for construction. So, for example, the letter P means panel (house), K means brick.
To designate Moscow buildings, separate rules were used: a set of characters, then a slash and the next number . The digital value before the slash indicates the series number; the number after the line indicates the number of floors. For example: 1-515/5 (“Khrushchev building” of 5 floors); 1605/9 (standard nine-story building).
Some modifications of standard buildings were allocated by engineers into separate categories, since in all respects they differed significantly from the original.
For example, the P-3M series indicates that a residential building belongs to panel towers from 9 to 17 floors, and the modification P-3M-7/23, which subsequently separated from it, means that we are talking about a 23-story building.
Is it possible to recognize the series of a house from a photo?
This method cannot be called accurate, but in some cases it works. If you have, for example, a panel house, then enter “series of panel houses” in a search engine and use the pictures that pop up to find a similar house.
However, here we must keep in mind that houses of the same series may have different facade and roofing solutions, different number of storeys, etc. That is, houses of the same series may not be entirely similar.
For example, the II-68 series has many variations, and even a specialist cannot always distinguish them from a photo.
We determine the series by year of construction
If you know the year the house was built, then this information will narrow down the search for the series of the house.
If the residential building was erected before the early 50s. XX century, then, most likely, this is an individual project, since then standard construction was just emerging in the USSR.
Such houses were built mainly of brick and have wooden or mixed floors, which significantly limits the possibilities for redevelopment in them. In addition, many of these houses are recognized as architectural monuments, and the reconstruction of apartments in them requires the development of a special project and expertise, which makes approval a very expensive procedure.
If the house was built after the 50s, then it most likely has a serial number . All panel and block buildings belonging to different periods of mass housing construction have a serial number and a set of characteristics.
These include, for example, “Khrushchevka” (1-510, K-7, II-14, etc.), “Brezhnevka” (P3, P55, P46), brick buildings of the 70s - 90s. (towers II-67 Moskvoretskaya, Vulykha, Tishinskaya).
Most of the standard apartment buildings were designed by the State Unitary Enterprise MNIITEP Institute, where you can find out the series of houses.
Houses built using monolithic technology were built in the recent past and are characterized by a more modern layout.
As a rule, monoliths are built according to individual projects that are developed by various organizations. There is no single design institute for such houses.
How to get information about an apartment with only an address
The area of an apartment is one of its main technical characteristics. It must appear in the housing cadastral passport, and you can recognize it using a unique identifier - the cadastral number. There are several ways to obtain information about a property of interest.
To obtain a cadastral number and gain access to the cadastral passport, you must know the exact address of the property. In a special section of the Rosreestr online service, you must enter data on the location of the apartment:
- region of location;
- name of the locality;
- street name, house and apartment number.
The system will show the identifier under which the property was registered. You can find out the area of an apartment by address by accessing the information in the cadastral passport.
What is it for?
Without registration, it is impossible to carry out any real estate transactions. You can not:
- sell;
- give;
- lay;
- exchange;
- evict someone from a home through court.
When buying a home, pay attention to the unique number indicated in the certificate of ownership and cadastral passport. They must match.
The numbers should be taken seriously. Any spelling mistake can lead to big problems. Please note that there are no dashes instead of colons. This is a common technical error. If you find it, contact your local Rosreestr office and request a correction.
Three ways to find out the square footage of an apartment
You can find out or check the area of a future purchase in different ways:
- get an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate - the downside is that the service will be paid and not fast. Even if you access the State Services website, you will have to wait at least three days;
- use a public service – cadastral map;
- contact EGRN.Reestr and get an extract quickly from 200 rubles.
The second and third options are most often used.
Public cadastral map. This service contains data on all real estate objects. To find the necessary information you need:
- go to the service website;
- find search function;
- Enter the cadastral number of the apartment.
Based on the selection results, the service will provide publicly available information, including the area of housing.
On the website of the Unified State Register of Real Estate. Here you can get extended data on the housing you are interested in. To do this, you will need to fill in the address of the apartment you are interested in in the address bar.
Important! Until 2007, apartments were assigned conditional identification numbers, which are also stored in the Rosreest database. If such a number is known, you can use it when searching.
Personal appeal to Rosreestr
To do this, you need to come to the federal service office at your place of residence. There you will be asked to issue an extract from the Unified State Register or the State Tax Committee. The procedure is approximately the same as when applying via the Internet (see above).
Take with you:
- passport;
- receipt of payment of state duty.
The application will be completed within five days.
To save time, you can make an appointment through the federal service website. You will have an electronic ticket indicating the time and place to come. There you can download the payment receipt.
What footage can be found at the address
When receiving information from official sources, you need to remember that the footage of the apartment in them is indicated by the area of the capital construction project. In other words, this will be the total area of the housing. The Housing Code includes in this concept all premises, both residential and non-residential. Only balconies, loggias and verandas are excluded.
The total area of the apartment is the main technical parameter from which the cost of housing, the price of its maintenance, and the amount of tax payments are calculated. The buyer rarely needs the living space indicator, most often to determine the size of the rooms and understand the approximate layout. If you want to know the residential footage:
- you will have to submit a request to Rosreestr and pay for the ordered information:
- If you have a technical plan, independently calculate the size of the living quarters by measuring and scaling them.
Situations in which you need to find out about a person’s property
Property owned by a specific person may be of interest to third parties for many reasons. Some of them are related to the presence of debt and other contractual obligations between the parties, and some are related to family relationships. Let's look at specific examples:
- In the event of a trial for the recovery of alimony in a fixed sum of money, the plaintiff must prove the presence of not only the defendant’s income, but also the ownership of property that indicates his well-being.
- If we are talking about the existence of a debt, in the framework of a judicial process, information about a person’s property is necessary in order to apply interim measures against him.
- When a case about a debt is with a bailiff and there is enforcement proceedings initiated, the official has the right, within the powers granted to him, to make an official request to find out information about the property that can be foreclosed on.
- If an individual is bankrupt, then in order to search for things belonging to him, the manager must conduct an investigation and find out whether transactions have been made to alienate property, the presence of which could pay off the existing debt.
- When applying for subsidies, payments, and placing on a waiting list to improve housing conditions. The authorized state body must check information for the last 3-5 years about the availability of real estate or the facts of its transfer to third parties.
- When drawing up a loan agreement for a large amount.
- When applying for positions in the state or municipal service, as well as in other departments, where the employee must provide information about the property he owns.
In practice, there may be other situations when it is necessary to find out property by full name. But before doing this, you need to know the reason for the request, if it is made in writing.
What other data can be obtained by knowing the address of the apartment?
By determining the area of an apartment by address using public services, you can obtain additional information about the property, which can significantly influence the decision to purchase it. These include:
- type of premises - residential or non-residential;
- cadastral value – the date of its determination and revision. If you wish, you can find out the tax amount immediately by following the link to the Federal Tax Service website;
- form of ownership of the apartment - municipal or private;
- imposed burdens and restrictions.
Text: Svetlana Kuryleva
PRO new building (Moscow)
The request is processed within 5 days, after which the certificate is sent by mail to an email or real address. The Rosreestr website provides the opportunity to obtain both of these certificates, for which you need to go to the State Services section and fill out the required form.
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