Why do you need a technical passport for a house and where to get it?

Until 2013, in any municipality, the inventory and accounting of capital buildings was carried out by organizations such as BTI, OTI, PIB. Only in them it was possible to obtain a technical passport for a house or apartment, to register a real estate property in the cadastral register and to obtain a certificate of ownership from the Rosreestr authorities.

After the specified date, another document is used for this purpose - a technical plan, for the preparation of which, in some cases, an old technical passport of a residential building may be required. Currently, a technical plan can be made not only by BTI, but also by any other organization that provides the services of certified cadastral engineers.

What is a technical passport for a house

A technical passport is a document that contains all the individual characteristics of a real estate property: a private household, a separate apartment in an apartment building, non-residential premises. These include:

postal address where the object is located;
information about the owner (full name of a private person, details of the organization);
explication of the area of the house (apartment) - name of the premises, floor;
technical description (year of construction, material of walls and ceilings, availability of communications, finishing);
inventory value - previously it was used to calculate real estate taxes (now the cadastral value is used);
graphic plan of the location of the premises of a private house (residential property in an apartment building).

Until December 2012, issuing a technical passport for a house was mandatory in order to register the finished building with the State Property Committee (Real Estate Cadastre). Only if you had a cadastral passport, it was possible to make an entry in the Unified State Register of Rights (register of rights) and receive a certificate of ownership.

The photo shows what a registration certificate for a house (apartment) issued in 2010 looks like.

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How the rules for registering houses have changed

Until March 1, 2008, a registration certificate for a residential building was a mandatory document and confirmed the inventory of a residential property. Information about him was entered into the BTI database. After this date, instead of technical registration, cadastral registration was introduced and a passport issued by the State Committee for State Control of Rosreestr became a mandatory document.
From March 1 to January 1, 2013 is a transition period. Both technical passports for houses and cadastral passports were issued. Information from the BTI was sent to Rosreestr and entered into the GKN (state cadastre). Everything depended on the region: how quickly local authorities made the transition to the new order. After this date, both BTI and cadastral engineers working independently draw up exclusively a technical plan. Only if it is available can the house be entered into the state cadastre (GKN).
From January 1, 2021, all accounting of private households, non-residential and unfinished properties, and apartments is carried out in one place. Namely, in the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN), which is maintained by Rosreestr. There you can get an extract that confirms the registration of the house and ownership. However, in some cases you may need a previously issued registration certificate. We will talk about this further.

Types of houses in Moscow.

Types of residential buildings in Moscow are divided into four groups: monolithic, panel, block and brick. Monolithic houses usually did not have a series and were built according to an individual project. These are mostly modern buildings. Panel and block buildings most often had a series (standard design) according to which they were built. You can read about panel houses here, and about block houses here. Brick houses were most often built according to individual projects, although some series, such as II-29, for example, were made of brick. Nowadays brick houses are no longer built.

Do I need a technical passport for a house?

Today this document is used to a limited extent. It contains a large amount of detailed information, including area, explication of premises and characteristics of building materials. Therefore, he is often asked to present when making any real estate transaction:

when selling a residential building and land;
when registering it as collateral to obtain a loan;
during reconstruction, redevelopment of home ownership;
when registering an inheritance, of which the house is a part;
when ordering a technical plan for cadastral registration.

You need to remember that in addition to the registration certificate for the house, when completing a transaction today, you will definitely be asked to provide an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. Since most technical passports were compiled a long time ago, the buyer and the bank will be interested in possible changes in the layout of the house, which must be registered in the state cadastre.

In addition, the basis for calculating taxes and setting the price of real estate is the legally established cadastral value. It does not coincide with the market price of the property, so in many cases the seller of real estate is forced to conduct an independent assessment of the property (examination) before the transaction.

What is the difference between a BTI technical passport and a technical plan?

The technical plan differs from the passport in that, in addition to the main characteristics of the structure described above, it contains a coordinate reference to the land plot and nearby objects. This allows you to clearly determine the location of the house in space and, therefore, unambiguously identify the immovable object. After all, many buildings built according to standard designs were similar to each other, like twin brothers. Accordingly, their technical passports were also similar, which led to various kinds of abuses.

Therefore, in order to register a finished or unfinished house with the Unified State Register of Real Estate, today you need NOT a technical passport, but a technical plan!

A passport issued by the BTI before 2013 may be required by a cadastral engineer to draw up a house (building) plan. For example, in a situation where a building is not registered in the cadastral register or is refused due to the lack of exact coordinates of the location of the land plot on which it is built. The specialist uses the passport data to obtain information about the characteristics of the building.

The technical passport of a house is used by a cadastral engineer (it doesn’t matter whether he works in the BTI or in a private organization) only in the absence of a project or permission to put the facility into operation (act). This situation occurs in relation to many private houses and cottages in summer cottages. Designs are not required for single-family structures up to three stories. According to the dacha amnesty, it was not necessary for them to have a construction permit and commissioning certificate.

Where to apply for a technical passport

In most localities, a technical passport can be obtained from the Multifunctional and Technical Inventory Bureau . Abbreviated as MFC and BTI. In St. Petersburg it can only be obtained from the Design and Inventory Bureau. All three organizations issue technical passports in the same way. The only difference is the time the service is provided.

The technical condition of real estate is taken into account by the BTI. Technical passports are also produced there. The MFC is an intermediary who simply accepts applications from citizens and transfers them to the relevant authorities. Therefore, if there is a BTI in your locality, it is better to go there - usually there is a shorter queue than at the MFC. You can contact any branch, regardless of the location of your home. You can find the nearest BTI branch on the Rostekhinventarizatsiya website. Select the city, then “Technical Inventory” and “All branches in the region.”

Who can get a registration certificate

You can order and receive a registration certificate:

home owners
heirs who need a registration certificate to open an inheritance with a notary (after the death of the testator);
trusted person.

As you can see, the service is not provided to those people who have nothing to do with real estate. If there are several owners, one of them can apply; all of them do not have to go.

How is the service provided and what documents are needed?

If you contact the MFC, you first need to take the details to pay for the production of a technical passport and a coupon with the queue number, if the queue is electronic. You can pay for the service at the checkout. Usually the BTI has the same procedure, but there are branches where the service is paid for by the employee who accepts the application.

Typically, the BTI does not contain archives with an inventory of private houses. In this case, the technical passport will be issued only with a preliminary visit by a measuring engineer to measure the house. An engineer is needed to inspect the condition of the house, take measurements and send this data to the BTI. If the BTI contains current measurements of the house, you can order a copy of the technical passport without a technician visiting.

The cost of the service is different everywhere - it depends on the region, the size of the house and the urgency. For example, in Moscow approximate prices: 2500 rubles. for a copy of the technical passport without an engineer visiting; 15,000 - 20,000 rub. with on-site technician and registration deadline within a month; 20,000 - 30,000 rub. with on-site technician and registration period within 15 days.

Give the employee the following documents:

Passport;
Title deed for the house. These documents include a certificate of registration of ownership and an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. The extract can be ordered at the MFC for 460 rubles, it is prepared in 1-3 working days, you only need to have your passport with you. If you don’t have the certificate on hand, you can order a USRN extract, pick it up and order a registration certificate on the same day;
If a trusted person applies, a notarized power of attorney is required from him. The principal's passport is not needed;
If heirs apply for the service, you must additionally bring a certificate from the notary about the opening of the inheritance, the original and a copy of the death certificate of the owner.

Next, the employee: 1) Fills out an application, which must be checked and signed. 2) Will issue a receipt for receipt of documents. 3) Set a day for the technician to arrive (if required) and issue a technical passport. The service delivery time varies everywhere, it all depends on the workload. Usually 15 - 30 days with an on-site engineer and no more than 10 working days without an on-site engineer.

We pick up the registration certificate in the same place where we left the application. You need to take your passport and the receipt that was issued earlier with you.

Sample registration certificate

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Where can I get a technical passport for my home?

The answer to this question depends on why you need this document. If the house is present in the state register (cadastre) of real estate, you can request an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. This can be done online, directly on the official website of Rosreestr, through the MFC, and the government services portal. As a rule, an extract is sufficient to resolve most issues. Among other information, it contains a graphic plan of the house.

If you have completed construction, want to register the building with the cadastral register, draw up ownership documents, you need to order the production of a technical plan. To do this, you can contact your local BTI or another organization providing cadastral services. Documents required for the engineer:

on the ownership of the land plot where a private house is built;
project, technical passport issued before 2013, construction notice (from March 1, 2021);
construction permit (if available), commissioning certificate;
declaration, if project documentation and obtaining permits are not required for the immovable property;
other documents as required by the engineer (and as necessary).

Thus, today no one will make a technical passport for a private house; it has been replaced by a technical plan. In addition to the presence of a coordinate reference, the technical plan has one more feature. It must be compiled electronically and sent to the cadastral chamber of Rosreestr. If you want to have a paper copy on hand, stipulate this in the work contract.

In conclusion: the question of how to make a technical passport for a house is not relevant as of 2021. Those who have it can use this document for reconstruction purposes when making transactions. However, in order to legalize construction redevelopment, you need to contact Rosreestr with an application to make changes to the state cadastre.

In most cases, banks, buyers, and realtors request an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. The information in it must coincide with the technical passport and the actual condition of the object. Otherwise, questions will inevitably arise for the owner of the house. If there is no technical documentation for the building (it was not there, it was lost), and you want to have it, you will have to order a technical plan.

The article was checked by expert Kosov Lev Gennadievich

Cadastral engineer. Work experience 9 years. Education Moscow University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) – Cadastral activities

Series of houses at an address in the Moscow region.

How to determine the series of a house in the Moscow region? Unfortunately, for the Moscow region there are no such bases as we wrote about above. If the house was recently built, then, again, you can request information from the operating organization. If the house was built a long time ago, then you can compare the layout of your apartment with the layouts of other series, although, of course, this is painstaking work. You can also take a photo of the facade of the building and send it to specialists along with the apartment layout. Perhaps they can help determine the series.

Catalog of standard redevelopments.

The already mentioned design institute MNIITEP, which is the author of most series of houses in Moscow, has developed a special Catalog of standard redevelopments. We have already discussed it in detail in a separate article. In this catalog you can learn a lot of useful information about your series: acceptable redevelopments that can be agreed upon without preparing a separate project, which walls are load-bearing and which are partitions, etc.

We hope we were able to answer your question “How to find out the series at home?”