When planning to buy an apartment, a person often focuses on the area in which the house is located. It is important for many to be close to work or within walking distance of a school or kindergarten.
You need to have an idea of how the rooms are located and whether there are opportunities for redevelopment. After all, there is simply no time to go somewhere to look at every apartment on offer. However, this problem can be solved in a very convenient way - find out the layout of the apartment at the address online.
Floor plan of a typical house
Why do you need an apartment diagram?
Indeed, why know what the layout is? A technical plan linked to the house address is necessary in many cases:
- Be sure to know the layout before buying and selling. This way you will be sure that there have been no illegal alterations in your new apartment;
- Privatization;
- Mortgage approval;
- It is also necessary when you want to remodel yourself;
- To change the purpose of a premises from residential to non-residential;
- For gasification of the facility;
- For a design project.
PRIMARY BTI PLAN FOR AN APARTMENT IN A NEW BUILDING
If the building in which the apartment is located has recently been built and put into operation, then it is necessary to inventory the premises in the BTI. Based on the result of the inventory, the apartment will be entered into the BTI archive and after that it will be possible to obtain a plan and explication of the BTI or a technical passport for it. It is possible to carry out primary accounting only with the release of a BTI technician with examination and measurements. During the inventory, you will need to organize access to the premises for a technician for a visual inspection and provide a package of documents: property documents, an approved house design with an architectural floor plan and your apartment on it, a building permit and a commissioning permit. These documents can be requested from the management company or the developer.
Online via Rosreestr
The easiest and most affordable way to quickly find out the layout of an apartment at an address is to order an extract and the Unified State Register on the Rosreestr website. The extract is completed within 3 days and costs from 300 rubles for individuals. The third section of the statement contains a plan of the property (house or apartment).
A simple extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate
An extract from the Unified State Register for an apartment is the only official document confirming ownership of the apartment. It contains information from Rosreestr about the characteristics of the property (area, address, cadastral number), information about the owners and restrictions on the apartment, and form of ownership.
Read also: Unified State Register - what is it: decoding.
An extract from the Unified State Register for an apartment is filled out in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Economic Development No. 378 of June 20, 2016.
The layout of a house or apartment at the desired address will be approximately as in the photo below.
Next in the photo is another example of an apartment diagram at the address of the house, taken from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. Quite often the statement has a similar appearance and does not contain the dimensions of the premises. The most that can be found out is the schematic arrangement of the rooms. However, this may be enough to ensure the absence of illegal redevelopment and area of premises. Section 5 of the extract contains a floor plan with the location of the apartment on it.
In order to find out the layout of the apartment at the address you need, you need to follow the link above and fill out the necessary fields (including the address of the property and your passport details).
Read more about how to get an extract step by step here.
Please note that the USRN extract does not have a statute of limitations. It is considered valid as long as the information contained in it is current. But different organizations have their own requirements for the statute of limitations.
Thus, notaries, Federal Migration Service authorities, guardianship authorities, courts and banks ask for an extract received no later than a month ago. MFC, My Documents, BTI and privatization agencies ask for an extract from 3 to 6 months. However, such a requirement is not entirely justified by legal provisions, but takes place due to the fact that the information must be up-to-date.
Extended extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate
The apartment plan of the house at the address is available only in the extended extract of the Unified State Register of Real Estate.
This statement is usually prepared within 3-5 days. At the discretion of the Rosreestr employee, only an apartment or the entire floor of a building can be reflected. If the extract is received electronically, then the floor plan of the apartment can be a separate file signed with an electronic signature.
The extended statement contains the following data:
- location of main and auxiliary premises;
- window and door openings, ventilation ducts;
- dimensions of rooms on the floor;
- laying utility networks and equipment;
- explication with a complete list of technical parameters (area, purpose of premises, etc.).
You may also be interested in: How to check online the readiness of a document in Rosreestr
Third party services
Is it possible to find out the floor plan of an apartment by address through online services like “Ktotam”, “Egrnka”, etc.? Previously, until May 2021, they actively provided information from the Unified State Register of Real Estate.
However, by the law of April 30, 2021 N 120-FZ “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On State Registration of Real Estate”” such sites are actually prohibited.
We do not recommend using other methods of obtaining an extract from the Unified State Register than from Rosreestr.
How to find out the layout of an apartment by address
You can request a floor plan in Moscow and the Moscow region in the following ways:
- Find out the layout at the address.
The simplest and most popular request that allows you to accurately identify the desired premises. To do this, you need data on the exact address of the apartment or non-residential premises: postal code, street, house number, apartment (non-residential premises) number. Additionally, information about the floor number and area of the apartment will be useful.
- Find out the layout by cadastral number.
Each registered premises (residential or non-residential) has its own unique number, which is assigned to the object upon initial cadastral registration. The address and technical characteristics of the premises are associated with this number. Cadastral records and registration of rights are maintained by the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN), maintained by Rosreestr. Rosreestr interdepartmentally interacts with the technical accounting body (BTI), verifying and requesting from it data on the technical characteristics of capital construction projects.
- Find out the layout by inventory number.
It is also called an archive number, since the recorded object is in the archive. During accounting and inventory, an inventory file is formed and assigned a number. It looks like this: an apartment building is assigned an inventory number, for example 311:090-361, and apartment No. 16 in this building is assigned the number 311:090-361/16. When requesting technical documentation, you need to take into account the territorial location of the premises and the BTI department that keeps records of objects in this territory.
How to check whether an apartment has unauthorized redevelopment
When purchasing an apartment, the buyer does not have information about the complete history of the apartment. — did the previous owner of the apartment demolish, move or erect partitions? — were the rooms in the apartment combined and was the living area changed due to auxiliary premises? — have possible changes to the layout been agreed upon and included in the BTI? You can obtain such information from the words of the seller and then bear responsibility at your own risk as the new owner. Here, due to the haste in the desire to become the owner of a new home, the purchaser often irresponsibly ignores the moment of checking the existing redevelopment. But given its illegal state, it is possible to foresee in advance the risks of unnecessary expenses in the future, including reducing the cost of the apartment due to the upcoming expenses for approval by the new owner. In addition, the new owner may receive a fine for uncoordinated redevelopment, regardless of who carried out it, he or the previous owner.
Therefore, there is reliable advice: before purchasing, check the actual layout of the apartment with official data and obtain reliable information from the BTI archive, in the form of a floor plan and explication. And then you don’t need to be a specialist to find differences (if any) in the BTI plan with the actual layout of the room.
How to obtain BTI data on the layout of an apartment
Each registered and registered premises is included in the technical inventory archive. Regardless of how long ago the house or building in which the apartment or non-residential premises was located was built and put into operation, data about it is available in the BTI with the information that was entered during the last measurement, whether it was yesterday or 30 years ago.
Via BTI
The second option to find out the layout of the apartment at the address is to contact a specialized body - BTI (Bureau of Technological Inventory). Having formulated your appeal, you will need to make a request for a registration certificate for the residential property.
For example, on the official website of the Moscow Mayor there are instructions on how to prepare BTI documents.
Why contact the BTI if you can order an extract from Rosreestr? It turns out that this is also true in 2021. The extract does not always contain clear and readable information about the object.
Read also: What is the cadastral valuation data fund, its functions.
It also happens that you bought an apartment with an illegal redevelopment, and you need to legalize it or return everything to its original position. In these cases, you must have a technical plan on hand.
To find out the layout of the apartment, you need to order a technical plan from the BTI. This is done through the website mfcbti.ru. We decided to test the level of services provided by the site. Everyone is used to thinking that BTI means hours-long queues in cramped corridors. Let me tell you that this is already a thing of the past. We left a request on the website, literally 15 minutes later they called us back and explained that the cost of the technical plan depends on the area of the room, and takes 5-10 days.
There are cases when for old houses there is no technical plan even in the BTI. Then you will have to look for it in the city construction department or even in the archives.
This method is mandatory if you want to remodel your apartment. A technical passport is the very first thing you need to acquire before starting work.
To obtain a technical plan from BTI you will need:
- Fill out an application.
- Provide a document confirming ownership of the object.
- Show your passport or power of attorney.
As you understand, this method is available only to apartment owners or their representatives. If you are not one, we use other methods.
The advantage of the BTI over Rosreestr is that the BTI contains information about apartments that were privatized quite a long time ago, and the owner did not receive a certificate of ownership.
About the BTI plan and how to order it.
OBTAINING A BTI TECHNICAL PASSPORT
A technical passport is a full-fledged document that includes several sections. It includes a floor plan and an explanation for it. The archive (inventory) number, information about the copyright holder, technical description of the house (building) in which the residential or non-residential premises are located, information about the improvement of the house are also indicated. The passport is issued by the BTI authorities at the request of persons who have the authority of the owner or representative under a notarized power of attorney. To obtain an official BTI passport, an important condition is necessary - the apartment must be registered with the BTI. This means that the premises must be inventoried and archived. If the apartment registered in the Unified State Register is not in the BTI archive, its initial registration should be carried out in the BTI register. This is a common practice with apartment buildings built after 2012. Such premises are registered in the cadastral register on the basis of a technical plan prepared by a cadastral engineer. Thus, the layout from the technical plan is recognized as a legal plan, and its data is the basis for inclusion in the BTI archive. Any change in the layout reflected in the technical plan must be agreed upon and legalized.
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By type of house
Not all methods are described above. You can view the layout of the apartment at the address without resorting to official requests. In addition, the previous methods are available only to homeowners or their representatives. But what if you need to see the layout of an apartment at a specific address? Fortunately, there is a solution here too.
You can find out the type of house by address or the location of the premises in a few clicks of the computer mouse. Let's say you are trying to find out about a specific apartment. All you need to get started is to find out the type of home.
If the apartment is located in serial buildings such as “Khrushchev” or “Stalin”, then the work is greatly simplified. In this situation, you can find out the layout by using the serial number of the house, and not its address.
Serial construction of housing was often practiced in the USSR. During this period, it was necessary to provide residential property to many residents of the country. In a short time, identical brick buildings were first built, and then panel buildings. Layouts in mass-produced buildings are called standard.
So, typical residential buildings are divided into five categories:
- "Stalins". The buildings erected according to this scheme are real “pioneers” of mass production of serial high-rise buildings. "Stalin" cars began to be used back in the 50s.
Floor plan "Stalin"
- "Khrushchevka". The second stage of construction of new housing began with the Khrushchev buildings. This period is also associated with the construction of “Stalinka” buildings, but they began to lose their popularity by the 60s.
Floor plan in Khrushchevka
- "Brezhnevki". Structures that are associated with the third stage of serial residential construction in the Soviet Union. These are improved buildings when compared with “Khrushchev” and “Stalin” buildings.
Typical floor plan of Brezhnevka
- Late Brezhnevkas. The fourth stage of construction of standard housing dragged on for almost sixteen years. Such housing was built on the basis of the ECSD (Unified Catalog of Construction Parts).
- "New buildings". With the advent of the nineties, construction underwent a real “boom”. Real estate is being intensively constructed and sold. And this became possible thanks to modernized layouts and various additions to standard design options.
Watch the video for a lot of interesting and useful information about standard layouts
Why might you need a floor plan?
The need for a floor plan may arise when carrying out transactions with real estate, its privatization, changing the type and purpose of the premises (in particular, when transferring premises from the category “residential” to “non-residential” and vice versa), redevelopment of an apartment and in other cases.
Information contained in a floor plan
The floor plan contains the following information:
- about the series of the building and the year of construction;
- about the material of load-bearing walls and ceilings;
- ceiling height;
- number of floors;
- number of one-, two-, three-, four-room apartments;
- living space and apartment layout;
- the presence of balconies and loggias;
- degree of wear and tear of the building;
- the presence of re-equipment or major repairs;
- whether the building is an architectural object or cultural heritage.
Additional information includes:
- about the type of premises (are there any premises of the “dormitory” or “hotel” type, apartment or corridor type);
- apartment numbering;
- Is the house located within the Garden Ring?
Such information can be obtained today on the Internet, but since it is provided by the BTI, it is mainly paid.
Where can I get a floor plan of a house by address?
You can get it in the standard way - using an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate, ordering this service separately. Information about all real estate objects is stored in the state cadastre. All technical documentation (cadastral, floor, situational plans, explications) are prepared at the BTI by specialist engineers.
Currently, the state cadastre and MBTI are combined into a single state real estate register - EGRN.
To obtain a PPD, an application is written, a passport and a title document for the apartment are provided.
Find out using the address
When searching for apartment layouts at the desired address, you need to know what the house looks like from the outside. To do this, you don’t have to go and photograph it. You can see what it looks like using Yandex maps.
Next, you can find typical house layouts on the tipdoma.com service. Here you need to know the material of the walls, year of construction, region, number of floors. You need to know the type of house (Stalinka, Brezhnevka, Khrushchevka), as we wrote about above.
As a result of the search, we find a series of houses that suit our request. In this case it is the 1-460 series.
Unfortunately, there is no single database of standard projects on the Internet yet. However, knowing the series of the house, you can relatively quickly find its layout on the Internet, in the architectural department of the city, in construction and design organizations.
Also, to find out the layout of the house according to its series, you can visit the website https://www.realto.ru/guide/plan_home.
Public cadastral map of Russia online
This is a set of numbers that define a specific block, area or area. Determining the cadastral number by referring to the address is quite easy. To do this, you need to find the desired area on the map. The online public map shows the boundaries of the site, as well as its cadastral value
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For each region of the Russian Federation, you can clarify the number of registered real estate objects as of the current date. Information is presented by type of property.
Establishment of the exact boundaries of a land plot occurs on the basis of land surveying. Situations often arise that require clarification, and this issue can be resolved with the help of a public cadastral map. You can find out the coordinates in the following order:
Information about the layout of houses under construction
So, with ready-made buildings that have been in use for a long time, everything is clear.
Is it possible to find out the housing layout of only a house under construction, the design documentation of which was developed individually? This will be the easiest thing to do. In the vast majority of cases, all floor plans of a new building are published on the developer’s website.
If they are not there, you can always contact the manager of the organization that sells apartments in this particular residential building.
The information you can obtain about the layout of the apartment will help people who intend to begin a thorough renovation of their home. Based on this information, you can carefully plan each stage of the repair. And if you are planning a redevelopment, you can obtain preliminary approval for its implementation, thereby saving your nerves, time and money.
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Therefore, when buying a new apartment, or before a serious restructuring of an existing one, the owners have another headache - the lack of necessary information, without which the “Napoleonic” plans are simply impossible to implement.
When purchasing housing in a house under construction, information about the series of the building design and the floor plan of the house can be obtained free of charge from the developer with whom the contract has been concluded. If the technical documents for the living space do not contain a floor plan, you need to contact a cadastral engineer. A specialist may be on the staff of a specialized company, work in BTI, or provide services as an individual entrepreneur. Using special equipment, he will take measurements of the apartment and draw up a plan.
Using home databases
If you are looking for an apartment to buy in a specific city or region, you can view the layout directly on the advertisement website. For example, on the Avito website now a good half of the ads contain apartment plans.
You may also find useful links and services that will help you find online the desired layout by year, address, number of floors, and wall material.
Services in Moscow and St. Petersburg
It is relatively easier to find a map of apartments by address in Moscow and St. Petersburg. To do this you need to know the address of the house. If you want to remodel, then this is a must. Convenient services include:
- https://www.mos.ru/ - only the owner can request a floor plan. Cost - 5.8 rubles per 1m2;
- nesprosta.ru - anyone can request the type of house and layout at the address, the cost of the report is 150 rubles;
- Institute of Construction and Design MNIITEP, which has the majority of residential building projects in Moscow.
YOU CAN REQUEST A FLOOR PLAN IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
- Find out the layout at the address.
The simplest and most popular request that allows you to accurately identify the desired premises. To do this, you need data on the exact address of the apartment or non-residential premises: postal code, street, house number, apartment (non-residential premises) number. Additionally, information about the floor number and area of the apartment will be useful.
- Find out the layout by cadastral number.
Each registered premises (residential or non-residential) has its own unique number, which is assigned to the object upon initial cadastral registration. The address and technical characteristics of the premises are associated with this number. Cadastral records and registration of rights are maintained by the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN), maintained by Rosreestr. Rosreestr interdepartmentally interacts with the technical accounting body (BTI), verifying and requesting from it data on the technical characteristics of capital construction projects.
- Find out the layout by inventory number in the BTI.
It is also called an archive number, since the recorded object is in the archive. During accounting and inventory, an inventory file is formed and assigned a number. It looks like this: an apartment building is assigned an inventory number, for example in Moscow - 311:090-361, and apartment No. 16 in this building is assigned the number 311:090-361/16. When requesting technical documentation, you need to take into account the territorial location of the premises and the BTI department that keeps records of objects in this territory.
How to prepare BTI documents
Where are BTI documents issued and why are they needed?
The Moscow City Bureau of Technical Inventory (MosgorBTI) keeps records of the technical condition of real estate located in Moscow. Based on this information, various documents are issued that may be needed during real estate transactions (for example, when selling an apartment), registration of redevelopment, registration of ownership of real estate and privatization of real estate.
What will you need to obtain BTI documents?
To receive documents issued by MosgorBTI, you need to prepare a package of documents. These include:
- an application if an individual is applying, or a letter of guarantee if a legal entity is applying (there are samples of these documents on the MosgorBTI website);
- identification document;
- title documents.* They do not need to be submitted if the basic register contains the necessary information;
- when applying by a proxy - a notarized power of attorney and an identification document of the representative;
- additional documents or information - in some cases.
The following are not needed when registering: certificates on the condition of housing and non-residential facilities in the city of Moscow for the accounting city block and certificates about the housing and non-residential facilities in the city of Moscow for the accounting city block.
Where to go to obtain BTI documents?
Any BTI document can be issued by submitting an application in person to the technical inventory bureau. In addition, some certificates can be issued:
What BTI documents can be issued online?
You can apply online at mos.ru:
In these cases, the finished document will be issued to you at the territorial division of the BTI to which the selected object belongs.
What BTI documents can be issued in?
In you can issue:
- extract from the technical passport of the BTI (form 1b);
- an extract from the technical passport for the building (structure) (form 1a);
- floor plan;
- BTI certificate on the condition of the building/premises (form 5);
- certificate of identification of the address of the capital construction project (without a graphical attachment);
- a certificate of the inventory value of the property (as of January 1, 2014);
- certificate in form No. 4 (about the common useful area in residential buildings of a household with central and stove heating);
- technical passport of the residential premises (apartment);
- an explanation of the floor plan;
- graphical attachment to the certificate of identification of the address of the capital construction project.
Reception and issuance of documents are carried out at public service centers, regardless of the territorial location of objects within Moscow.
What BTI documents are drawn up in the design department?
Some documents can only be obtained from the BTI design department. These include:
- conclusion on the compliance of non-residential premises with the requirements for residential premises;
- project for redevelopment and reconstruction of residential/non-residential premises;
- technical conclusion on the admissibility and safety of redevelopment and reconstruction of residential/non-residential premises.
When will the documents be ready and how much does it cost?
Services for issuing BTI documents are paid, and the completion time and cost in some cases depend on the terms of the contract. More information about the conditions, terms and payment can be found on the MosgorBTI website.
How to find information about a building in St. Petersburg and other cities
The dom.mingkh.ru service contains information about residential buildings not only in Moscow, but throughout Russia. On the portal it is easy to find any building in St. Petersburg, other megacities, large and small cities of the Russian Federation. This contains the main characteristics of residential buildings and structures in the country.
Using the Internet resources presented in the article, every interested person, entrepreneur, and company will be able to easily find all the necessary information on the availability and comfort of the Moscow housing stock. You just need to pay attention to all the recommendations and then the quality of your metropolitan apartment or office will satisfy all the client’s needs.
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What is needed for this?
In order to receive an extract with the plan, you need to know the address of the apartment and preferably the cadastral number. Information from the Unified State Register is publicly available and anyone can order an extract. When applying in person, you will need the applicant's passport or a representative's power of attorney. To order, you will have to fill out a request online or in person, and also pay a state fee. The request form can be downloaded from the Rosreestr website.
For the preparation of a paper extract with the apartment plan you will need to pay 400 rubles (for individuals), a cadastral plan of the territory - 1500 rubles. Electronic documents will cost much less – 200 and 300 rubles, respectively. When paying by card, a bank commission may be deducted from this amount. It is impossible to obtain a document for free, that is, without paying a state fee.
When filling out the request, you will need to indicate which version of the statement you need: extended or regular, and also decide on the format of the document (electronic or paper).
Who is responsible for storing documentation for the house?
So, during the life of an apartment building, a huge number of situations arise in which it may be necessary to refer to design documentation. This category of documents is part of the technical documentation, which, in turn, should be available to every MKD. According to existing rules, the technical documentation of a house includes:
- MKD technical passport;
- town planning and cadastral plans for the site on which the apartment building is located;
- design documentation;
- inspection reports;
- extract from Rosreestr;
- documents for installed metering devices and some other papers.
It is necessary to note that the owners of the apartment building documentation are in possession of them, but in the case of an apartment building, each apartment owner cannot have such documents. Storage is handled by a management company, which is responsible for maintaining and storing technical documentation.
Important! Managing organizations may have at their disposal both originals and copies of technical documentation. The project of an apartment building can be transferred to the management company electronically.
What to do if documentation is lost?
The current rules provide for a certain procedure for transferring documents to an apartment building (for example, when changing the management company), which is designed to prevent the loss of papers. The following points are fundamental:
- when transferring the functions of managing an apartment building to a new management company, documents are provided within 30 days;
- the transferred package of documents must correspond to the full list, and if any paper is missing, it must be restored;
- Responsibility for checking the completeness and relevance of the documents provided rests with the company to which the functions of managing the house are transferred.
But despite the existence of such a procedure, documents for houses are still often lost. Owners of apartments in old buildings that were previously under municipal management are especially often faced with this situation. If documents for an apartment building have been lost, you must contact the local government with a corresponding application. Applications should also be sent to the housing inspectorate and the prosecutor's office. The restoration of documents in such situations should be carried out by the persons who were entrusted with the responsibility for their storage (and the restoration occurs at their own expense).
Where can I find design documentation for an apartment building?
Content:
The construction of an apartment building (MCD) is a complex process that is impossible without the preparation of appropriate design documentation. However, this does not mean at all that after completion of construction you can forget about the project: design (and technical) documentation is absolutely necessary in the process of further operation of the apartment building. In addition, many apartment owners are faced with poor quality construction and maintenance work.
If you have a dispute with a developer or management company (MC), with a high degree of probability you cannot do without obtaining project documentation (it will allow you to prove deviations from the project, errors, etc.). And even if you manage to find a project for the house (you will learn about where the documentation should be stored from our material), without professional legal support in a dispute with the management company or developer, it will be difficult to achieve success. A lawyer will assess your chances of winning in court, prepare all the necessary documents and ensure that your interests are represented.
Is the developer obliged to store project documentation?
If you need to obtain project documentation, then the first step should be to contact the management company. However, there are often cases when management companies declare that they do not have a project (for example, when transferring an apartment building to management, the documents were not provided in full). In this case, you can contact the developer who was involved in the construction of the apartment building.
At the same time, not everything is clear with the storage of documentation by the developer. According to SNiP 3.01.04-87 (approved on April 21, 1987), even after the apartment building has been accepted into operation, the originals of the project and other technical documents must be kept by the developer. But in the same 1987, changes were made to SNiP, according to which technical documentation should be transferred to operating organizations. At the moment, the courts adhere to the following position: if the developer cannot prove that he transferred the apartment building project and technical documents to third parties (MC, investor, etc.), then he is recognized as responsible for their storage (according to the original version of SNiP) .
Important! Project documentation must be stored until it is entered into the archive: by law, this period is 20 years. After the documents receive archival status, their storage will be handled by the state or municipal archive.
