Developers will be forbidden to keep silent about paid services in apartment purchase contracts

The National Consumer Rights Protection Union has sent a proposal to the government to create a single model contract in Russia that developers will use when selling apartments in new buildings. For the first year, it can be used as a recommendation for all companies, and then transferred to the mandatory category by legalizing the document with the help of the necessary laws. This is stated in a letter from the organization to the government, which was reviewed by Izvestia. The Cabinet of Ministers explained that they had received the document and sent it to the Ministry of Construction, which had already begun to consider it.

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The union's appeal says that development companies are now aggressively advertising, which often omit many significant circumstances that significantly affect the final cost of housing. Builders unilaterally change the initial terms of the equity participation agreement after its conclusion: the base price actually increases after the apartment is ready for transfer.

This is due to the fact that developers offer to provide services that were not previously known about, but the buyer cannot do without them, said Pavel Shapkin, the head of the union. For example, an apartment increases in square footage, but you need to pay for the extra space at the market price, or it turns out that landscaping, construction of playgrounds, parking near the house and maintenance of the entrance cost some money.

The expert stressed that we are talking about changing essential conditions. Now companies draw up filigree documents from a legal point of view that take into account various loopholes for companies, therefore, as Shapkin noted, basic things should be fixed in a standard contract, as well as all services that are included and not included in the price of the apartment.

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Set up for the best: developers will be forbidden to keep silent about paid services in contracts