How much does it cost to legalize the redevelopment of an apartment, where to get approval, and what is the cost of registering an unauthorized change in the configuration of housing?

Many residents of apartment buildings seek to improve the internal configuration of their housing - change the number of rooms, expand the bathroom, etc. To carry out such work, it is necessary to obtain permission from local authorities in order to avoid damage to the building and a fine.
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Where can I obtain approval for a new room configuration?

According to the provisions of paragraph 1 of Art. 26 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, local government bodies are authorized to coordinate changes in the configuration of residential premises. This task is performed by the State Housing Inspectorate of the relevant constituent entity of the Russian Federation. Thus, in order to legitimize the redevelopment, you should contact this department.

Reference. In order to simplify and speed up the procedure for submitting documents to legalize redevelopment, you can contact the nearest MFC branch. In this case, the need for a personal visit to the housing inspection will disappear altogether.

Is it possible to coordinate the redevelopment at the MFC?

Yes, you can. Moreover, now in many cities government services are concentrated only in the offices of the MFC. If previously it was necessary to contact the housing inspectorate directly, now applicants are sent to. Surely there are MFC branches in your city or district.

But at the same time, Multifunctional Centers do not issue permission for redevelopment of apartments and do not approve projects. These are only intermediaries between citizens and government authorities. That is, at most they will accept your documents, help with your application and notify you about the result of the service provided. Coordination occurs with the direct participation of experts in the housing inspection itself.

Attention! Residents of Moscow will not be able to approve redevelopment through the MFC. According to the changes dated August 21, 2021, today in Moscow only the electronic method of submitting documents to the Moscow Housing Inspectorate is available - on the official website of the Moscow Mayor. There are no restrictions for other regions of Russia.

What does the price depend on?

It is worth noting that it is impossible to indicate a single cost for remodeling an apartment. In each individual case, its size will change under the influence of the following factors:

the moment of legalization of changes in the configuration of the premises (before repair work or after);
method of coordinating redevelopment (independently or through a specialized organization);
presence/absence of encumbrances on the apartment (for example, if it is a mortgaged property, then additional costs will arise in the form of paying a fee for the bank to issue a permit to carry out the planned work, additional payment of an insurance premium, etc.);
the nature and level of complexity of the upcoming changes;
the area of the apartment in which redevelopment is planned;
type of required documentation in a particular case (project or sketch);
the territory where the owner of the premises lives (in different regions the cost of services of design organizations varies significantly);
the need to prepare additional papers (for example, a technical report from the author of the house when remodeling a load-bearing wall);
the type of planned changes to the apartment configuration (an individually developed option or a plan borrowed from a free catalog published on the housing inspection website), etc.

The typical composition of a redevelopment project includes the following sections:

Explanatory note describing the redevelopment plan.
Fire safety requirements when working on site.
Plan and explication of the premises before the work is carried out.
Installation and dismantling plan of the apartment.
Plan of the apartment after redevelopment.

Based on the volume of redevelopment activities, it may be necessary to add additional sections: thermal and electrical calculations, plans and explication of floor coverings, heating and ventilation systems, water supply and sanitation, drawings for strengthening load-bearing structures, axonometric diagrams, etc.

How much does legalization cost?

As noted above, the service itself for coordinating redevelopment in an apartment is provided by housing inspectorate employees completely free of charge. However, despite this, the owner will in any case have to incur a number of expenses, sometimes quite significant ones.

Reference. Almost all costs associated with legalizing the redevelopment of premises arise at the time of collecting and preparing documents. This is a rather difficult and expensive stage.

Prices for the development of project documentation

The main documents that will definitely be required when agreeing on redevelopment in an apartment are:

Project for future changes in living space – prepared to order by specialists of the design organization. The average cost of this document starts from 14,000 rubles. However, its value depends on the following factors:
- apartment area;
the territory in which the redevelopment project is being ordered;
level of the selected design organization, etc.

In cases where the owner wants to carry out a simple type of redevelopment, it is allowed to legalize it on the basis of a sketch. The cost of such paper is several times cheaper. Its average value is 5,000 rubles.

A technical conclusion for redevelopment is a document that presents a construction and technical assessment of the building and draws a conclusion about the possibility of implementing a planned or already completed change in the configuration of the premises. Its average price starts from 10,000 rubles.

The cost of processing documents at the BTI

In addition to the papers listed above, in the process of legitimizing the redevelopment, the owner of the premises will also need to draw up a number of documents at the BTI (technical inventory bureau). These procedures are also paid. We are talking about the following main papers:

The technical passport of the BTI is a reference document that contains information about the current layout of the apartment, the degree of wear and tear of the entire apartment building, the building materials from which the walls are constructed and engineering systems.
Important. Each BTI independently sets prices for its services. At the same time, the average value of an apartment’s technical passport is 3,000 rubles.
Floor plan and explication of BTI – this document is drawn up before and after all construction work described in the apartment redevelopment project.
- A floor plan is a schematic representation of the floor of an apartment building and the premises located on it. Compiled based on measurements of the property by BTI employees.

The average cost of a floor plan and BTI explication varies from 1,500 to 5,000 rubles.

Moreover, the price is influenced by the following factors:

the territory in which such a service is ordered;
apartment area;
category of living space (residential or commercial real estate);
production time.

Coordination through State Services

To obtain permission for redevelopment through the State Services website, you must complete the following steps:

Make electronic copies of all documents.
Register on the State Services portal and undergo verification.
Select from the main directory.
In the list of services that appears, you need to select the item “Coordination of reconstruction and redevelopment.”
Next, you need to select the type of service (electronic) and click on the “Get service” button.
When opening the electronic application window, you must fill in all the proposed fields sequentially.
Click the “Next” button and proceed to downloading electronic versions of documents.
Wait for the appeal to be reviewed and receive a copy of the city administration’s resolution on approval of the redevelopment

Verification is carried out free of charge upon presentation of a passport at any registry office office or special centers, the addresses of which can be found on the city administration website.

You must enter the details of the applicant and the living space in the fields of the electronic application, and it is important to ensure that the entered data matches the information in the documents attached to the application.

Electronic copies of the owners' permissions are made by scanning; cadastral documents for the apartment and an extract from the Unified State Register do not need to be provided if the applicant's apartment is registered electronically in the Rosreestr database - you can find out the availability of this information in the process of filling out an electronic application.

If the decision is positive, the applicant will be notified by email and in a message on the State Services portal. You can pick up a copy of the resolution at any MFC branch or print it out from a letter sent by email.

How much will it cost to legalize an unauthorized change in housing configuration?

If the owner has carried out redevelopment without prior approval from local authorities, it will be considered unauthorized.
In this case, the only way out of the situation is to legitimize the changes already made. The procedure for approving the completed redevelopment differs from the generally established procedure, and, therefore, the costs here will have their own characteristics.

So, the main costs associated with the legalization of illegally carried out redevelopment consist of the following components:

Payment for the preparation of a full package of documents (a project or sketch of a redevelopment, papers from the BTI, a technical report from the author of an apartment building, etc.) - the total cost starts from 20,000 rubles.
Payment of an administrative fine for unauthorized changes in the configuration of the apartment - in accordance with clause 2 of Art. 7.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation for citizens, its amount ranges from 2,000 to 2,500 rubles.
Payment of a state fee when legalizing unauthorized redevelopment in court - you will need to pay 300 rubles.
Payment for intermediary services – all procedures related to the legalization of unauthorized redevelopment do not have to be carried out independently. In order to save time and effort, you can use the help of intermediary organizations. The average cost of such services provided in a complex starts from 25,000 rubles. Moreover, it is influenced by the following factors:
status and rating of the intermediary organization;
subject of the Russian Federation in whose territory the service is ordered, etc.

In addition, it is worth keeping in mind that if any types of changes violate current housing legislation, then in order to legitimize the entire redevelopment, restoration work will have to be carried out in places where it is necessary (for example, restoration of a load-bearing wall that was previously partially dismantled).
This will incur additional costs. Thus, if we sum up all the amounts listed above, it turns out that the average price for approving an unauthorized redevelopment is 47,300 rubles (if intermediaries are involved) and 22,800 rubles (if legalized independently). However, these values are only approximate.

In general, we can conclude that there is no single cost for approving redevelopment, including illegal ones. This value depends on many factors, therefore it is determined individually for each individual case.

Additionally, you can order the following types of services:

Obtaining a certificate of completed redevelopment - 30,000 rubles. Read more about the service for obtaining this document here.

Obtaining new BTI documents for an apartment, not counting the official payment to the BTI - 20,000 rubles. The cost of the official payment to the BTI is 8-10,000 rubles (depending on the area of the apartment). Read more about the service for obtaining new BTI plans here.

Making changes to the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN) without taking into account the preparation of a technical plan with the receipt of an extract - 20,000 rubles. Find out more about this service here.