What is the federal BTI and what services does this institution provide to the population?

Although the powers of the BTI have been significantly limited in recent years, these organizations still have a large array of technical documentation for real estate. Certificates may concern archival or current information on objects, and they can be obtained directly from the BTI, or through the MFC system. Let's consider what types of certificates can be obtained from the BTI, and what their practical significance is.

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What is a BTI certificate?

A BTI certificate is an official document issued at the request of the owner of a property or other interested party. The content of the certificates will depend on the purpose and subject of the request - from the inventory value of the object to a copy of the floor plan of the building.

Initially, BTI bodies were created to carry out inventory and accounting of capital construction projects. At different periods of time, the powers of BTI institutions included the following functions:

• primary and subsequent inventory of objects, with determination of inventory value;
• registration and issuance of technical documentation for real estate (technical passport, floor plan of the building, etc.);
• registration of ownership of real estate;
• maintaining an archive of technical documentation for surveyed and recorded objects.

These powers were gradually limited, and with the introduction of the cadastral registration system, BTI institutions generally lost most of their previous functions. The preparation of technical and boundary documentation for real estate is carried out by cadastral engineers, who use BTI information on previously surveyed objects.

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Of significant value are the archives of the BTI, where all inventory files for real estate were transferred. To carry out work on objects (redevelopment, reconstruction, reconstruction, etc.) it is necessary to prepare a project. When preparing project documentation, the entire volume of information on the facility is used, including data from technical inventories and assessments. For objects that are just now undergoing cadastral registration, primary BTI documentation is necessary for the preparation of technical plans.

Expert commentary . According to the rules of Federal Law No. 218-FZ, all information about the characteristics of a real estate property is reflected in technical terms, and then transferred to the state register of the Unified State Register of Real Estate. However, in the Housing Code of the Russian Federation. when defining the concepts of redevelopment and reconstruction, reference is still given to the technical passport, which was previously produced by the BTI bodies. The validity period of such passports was 5 years, i.e. in 2021, all such documents have lost their validity. Therefore, even if there is a valid Art. 25 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, changes based on the results of redevelopment will be recorded in technical terms, however, information from BTI passports can be used for the work of a cadastral engineer.

Sample of filling out an application for issuing a certificate

Obtaining BTI documents for non-residential premises

BTI is a familiar and well-established abbreviation. Documents received from the BTI are an important component of real estate transactions, both residential and non-residential.

Specialized enterprises (in the form of state unitary enterprises and municipal unitary enterprises) provide services for the provision of BTI documents to individuals and legal entities.

In Moscow, you can obtain accounting and technical documentation for the premises at the Moscow City Bureau of Technical Inventory (SUE MosgorBTI).

You will need to obtain BTI documents when:

• real estate mortgage transaction;
• purchase and sale of real estate;
• privatization actions with real estate;
• coordination and registration of redevelopment.

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The period for receiving BTI documents is up to 10 working days.

How do you receive documents from the BTI?

As you can see, without obtaining BTI documents, it is impossible to register ownership of any premises.

The owner of the property receives accounting and technical documents before making a transaction or other actions by contacting the BTI independently, or this can be done by another person by proxy.

The state fee is paid in advance, and the receipt is presented to the bureau. At BTI you can order and receive a number of documents for real estate transactions and other actions.

List of documents from the BTI received for non-residential premises

• Floor plan (valid for 1 year from the date of issue);
• Technical certificate;
• Explication;
• Various BTI certificates:

• extract from technical
  passports for a building/structure - form 1a (valid for 1 year from the date of issue);
• BTI certificate on the condition of the building/premises - form 5;
• address identification certificate;
• certificate of value (estimated) of the property;
• certificate of value (inventory) of the property for tax purposes - form 11a;
• explanation for the floor plan of non-residential premises - form 25 (valid for 1 year from the date of issue);
• floor plan in electronic (and vector) form and other documents.

Deadline for receiving documents from the BTI

In Moscow, the preparation of BTI documents for non-residential premises (explication of the premises, technical passport, etc.) at the office will take no more than 10 working days from the date of receipt of the state registration. duties to the TBTI account.

In the Moscow region, similar preparation of technical documentation for the premises will take from 10 working days to 21 from the date of receipt of the state. duties on account.

As we have already noted, only the owner of the property or his legal representative can obtain BTI documents. An exception is the situation of inheritance, in which case the request is made by a notary, since the heir is not yet the owner.

Please note that permission for redevelopment, reconstruction or re-equipment of premises is now issued by other services in Moscow:

• for non-residential - Interdepartmental Commission (Administration or Prefecture) or Moscomarchitecture;
• for residential - MosZhilInspektsiya.

For the property owner the following is submitted:

• power of attorney on company letterhead from the organization for our employees;
• letter of guarantee on the organization's letterhead;
• a document confirming ownership of the premises (original), on the basis of which documents are obtained in the BTI.

For the real estate tenant the following is submitted:

• power of attorney on company letterhead from the organization for our employees;
• a letter of guarantee on the organization’s letterhead, agreed upon with the owner (at the bottom of the letter the owner writes “I don’t object” and puts his stamp);
• a copy of the lease agreement, certified by the owner;
• certificate of ownership of the object (copy), which is certified by the owner.

List of BTI addresses

What types of BTI certificates are there?

A complete list of certificates issued by BTI authorities can be found by personally contacting the specified institution, or on their official websites. Let us highlight the most common types of certificates that are of practical importance for citizens and legal entities:

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• an extract from the register book on the ownership of the property as of 01/01/2000;
• a certificate of the inventory value of a building, structure, premises or other object;
• a certificate of the characteristics of the object according to state technical records;
• extracts from the technical passport of the BTI in form 1b;
• issuance of their technical passport for the building (structure) in form 1a;
• copies of the archival inventory file for the facility;
• certificate of the condition of the building according to form No. 5;
• floor plan of the building and its explanation
• certificate of condition of a residential or non-residential property;
• address identification certificate;
• other types of forms and forms.

Why do you need certificates from the BTI?

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These documents confirm ownership rights or lack thereof, and in some cases help resolve property issues, such as the purchase and sale of land, apartments, or residential buildings.

All certificates from the BTI are carried out on special state-issued forms, certified by the signature and seal of the organization.

Any Russian citizen can receive a completed certificate from the MFC when submitting an application and a package of documents; in most cases, the basis is:

1. Registration, privatization of land
2. Registration, privatization of living space (apartment or house)
3. Transfer of ownership rights to another person
4. Termination of ownership rights to an object
5. Purchase and sale of real estate
6. Registration of donation
7. Inheritance
8. Applying for a mortgage loan
9. Registration of a subsidy

In some cases, a document may be required in court, or upon application from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other executive authorities.

How to get a BTI certificate for free yourself

All certificates are issued by BTI authorities on a paid basis. Depending on the status of the requester, the tariff may be reduced, and you can find out about preferential categories directly at the BTI institution. If the request to the BTI is drawn up by a notary or cadastral engineer, the price of the certificate will be included in the cost of the contract.

Here are the steps you need to take to obtain a BTI certificate yourself:

• decide on the type of certificate - specific situations require different information from their technical documentation, there is no point in ordering a paid certificate for all characteristics;
• decide on the BTI institution to which the request will be submitted - the BTI information is not included in the unified federal database, therefore, to receive information on objects from other regions, you need to send a request there in writing by mail or contact through the local BTI department (naturally, you need to take into account the deadline to receive written correspondence when requesting certificates from another region);
• fill out the form requesting a certificate - this form will be provided at the BTI institution at the place of application;
• pay the cost of producing the certificate in accordance with the approved tariffs;
• the certificate will be issued within the period specified when receiving the request, or sent by mail.

You can receive a certificate not only in person, but also through a representative. To do this, issue a power of attorney through a notary office and indicate as part of the authority the possibility of obtaining any certificates from the BTI.

Certificates from the BTI - types and validity period

1. Applicant's passport
2. Power of attorney (for the representative of the owner of the property)
3. Marriage certificate (if the surname has been changed)
4. Documents that confirm the right to inheritance in the event of receiving an inheritance.
5. Document certifying ownership
6. Receipt of payment for services of this organization

• Technical passport of a residential premises - issued if some type of reconstruction is planned in the housing. The passport must be renewed every five years.
• A floor plan is a detailed plan of the premises, most often it comes along with a technical passport.
• Explication - can be of several forms No. 22, and No. 25, depending on the place where the documents are submitted. Validity period from 1 to 5 years.
• Inventory assessment documents are a determination of the cost of living space, taking into account its condition. The certificate is valid for no more than 1 month.
• Registration data – indicates all persons registered at a specific address. Valid for no more than 1 month.
• Land plot plan - issued for a period of up to 5 years.
• Extracts of the following forms: No. 3, No. 5, No. 11. These forms characterize the dimensions of the premises, the use of the attic space, and the period of commissioning of the premises. The information is valid for 10 days.
• Extracts from the technical passport - this document characterizes the building itself in which the residential premises are located. Valid for 12 months.
• Extract from the BTI organization – the certificate is valid for 12 months.
• The purchase price of housing is required in the case of the purchase and sale of residential premises. The statement is valid for 6 months

An alternative to the BTI certificate is an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate

With the introduction of the cadastral registration system, all information about real estate is recorded in a single federal database - the Unified State Register of Real Estate. It is the USRN extract that is the only proper title document. Cadastral registration information is taken from technical and boundary plans prepared by a cadastral engineer.

If the object has undergone the cadastral registration procedure, information about it is included in the Unified State Register of Real Estate. This means that current and reliable data on the object of interest can be obtained not through the BTI authorities, but by requesting an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. You can do this in the following ways:

BTI documents for the apartment

BTI certificates

BTI (Technical Inventory Bureau) or as they are called in St. Petersburg - PIB (design and inventory bureau) are specialized government agencies that maintain technical records and inventory of all real estate located in their area.

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For each district there is a separate Territorial BTI (TBTI).

The BTI contains and issues, at the request of citizens, various accounting and technical data on all real estate objects in its area. But for an apartment purchase and sale transaction, it is enough for us to know about the following documents (certificates) from the BTI:

• Apartment floor plan
• Explication
• Technical passport of the apartment
• BTI certificate form 1-a
• Cadastral passport of the apartment
• Certificate of inventory value of the apartment
• Certificate of address compliance

It is these BTI certificates that may be needed to sell an apartment. What they are is discussed below.

Apartment floor plan

The floor plan of an apartment (“floor plan”) is a drawing that represents the floor plan on which the apartment is located, including the plan of the apartment itself. The “floor” displays all load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, partitions, window and door openings, balconies and loggias. From the “floor plan” you can clearly see the number and location of rooms in the apartment, the location of the kitchen, bathroom, etc.

“The floor plan” is ordered, in particular, for the design of Opens in a new tab.”>redevelopment of the apartment. Red lines on the floor plan indicate unregistered changes to the apartment plan.

The floor plan of the apartment is a graphic application of both the Cadastral passport of the apartment and the Technical passport of the apartment. But if necessary, the BTI can also be issued in the form of a separate certificate. You can see what the floor plan of the apartment looks like as part of the cadastral and technical passports of the apartment - in the section Opens in a new tab.">"Samples of documents."

Based on the “floor plan”, an explication of the apartment is drawn up.

Explication

An apartment explication is simply a table with a list of all premises located in the apartment (both residential and non-residential), indicating their areas. You can see how this looks in the same documents that contain the “floor plan” (see the link to them above).

As a rule, the explication is ordered along with the floor plan of the apartment.

Technical certificate

The technical passport of an apartment is a document on several pages that contains technical and address registration data. It includes a floor plan of the apartment, an explication and an address plan.

BTI certificate form 1-a

A BTI certificate in form 1-a is simply an extract from the Technical Data Sheet of the apartment, made on an approved form. It provides a brief technical description of the property, its functional purpose, address of the property, and information about the owner of the property.

The information is presented there in tabular form, based on explication.

Cadastral passport

The cadastral passport of an apartment is an extract from the State Real Estate Cadastre (GKN), containing information necessary for all types of registration actions with the apartment.

From 01/01/2013 Cadastral passports for registration purposes are issued ONLY by the Cadastral Chamber of Rosreestr (FGBU FKP ROSRESTRA for Moscow).

At the same time, local BTI can also issue Cadastral passports, but for other purposes, for example, to obtain various permits and approvals NOT related to registration actions.

For more information about it, and whether it is needed to sell an apartment, see the Glossary section. Opens in a new tab.">"Cadastral passport of the apartment."

Certificate of inventory value

A certificate of inventory value of an apartment is a certificate indicating the residual book value of the apartment, taking into account its current wear and tear. This conditional value has nothing to do with the market price of the apartment.

Such a certificate may be needed for Opens in a new tab.”>notarial actions, for annuity agreements, donations, inheritance, etc.

Certificate of address compliance

A certificate of address compliance is a certificate whose name speaks for itself. When renaming individual streets, numbers or building blocks, such a certificate may be required to match the actual postal address with the address registered in the database.

How legal is a BTI certificate in 2021?

In most cases, BTI certificates in 2018-1019 will be of an informational nature and cannot indicate the presence or absence of rights to real estate. Information from inventory files has legal force only when determining the value of an object for inheritance purposes; in other cases it is of an auxiliary nature.

Here are examples when obtaining certificates from the BTI will be important for legal relations:

• if the courts are considering disputes about the rights to real estate registered before 01/01/2000;
• if the enterprise conducts a technical inventory of objects for its own purposes;
• if it is necessary to prepare design documentation to change the characteristics of an object that has not undergone cadastral registration.

Technically, there is no need to update your old apartment passport. This document has no legal force. If you need to obtain up-to-date and reliable information about the characteristics of your property, you need to contact a cadastral engineer.

Procedure for obtaining a certificate

The question of where to get a certificate of absence of real estate is asked by everyone who is faced with the need to carry out legally significant actions with real estate or the need to receive subsidies.

The registration of information about real estate is carried out by Rosreestr and the Bureau of Technical Inventory, so you should contact the territorial divisions of these government agencies to obtain such a certificate. Moreover, Rosreestr provides information about real estate objects registered after 1998. To issue a certificate of real estate registered before 1998, you should contact the BTI. Information on real estate objects registered throughout Russia is contained in the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate and is provided to the applicant when applying to the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr). You can also apply for such a document to the MFC or to the Internet portals of State Services and Rosreestr.

A certificate from the BTI about the absence or presence of property can be provided to both individuals and legal entities, as well as individual entrepreneurs and employees of courts, law enforcement and other government agencies. At the same time, such information can be provided to government employees upon official request.

A certificate of absence of property is provided upon application drawn up in the proper form. In this case, the person will need to submit the following package of documents to the employee of the receiving government agency:

• Internal passport of a citizen or a person acting in the interests of an individual by proxy;
• Power of attorney certified by a notary. This document is provided if an authorized representative applies for an extract on behalf of an individual;
• The birth certificate of a person under the age of majority must be submitted to the parent or guardian/trustee acting on behalf and in the interests of the minor;
• Marriage registration certificate (must be submitted for married citizens);
• Certificate of title to inherited property (confirms the right of ownership of housing when received by inheritance);
• Receipt for payment of state duty.

All of the above documents must be submitted to the receiving organization in original.

Information indicated in the document about the real estate owned.

A certificate from the BTI about the presence or absence of property of the established type is filled out on a special form. It must be certified by the signature of the responsible person and the seal of the issuing authority. You should check the document you receive about the absence of real estate ownership for the following information:

• Information about the person in whose name a certificate is issued about the presence or absence of property. This information includes identification number, full name and date of birth;
• A note indicating the absence of housing owned by the applicant;
• If an individual owns real estate, then the document must contain information about its location, address, information about the method of acquiring it into ownership, and a cadastral number.

The issued certificate from the BTI on the availability of property will contain a note only about real estate located within the territorial boundaries of the issuing authority, since each department of the BTI carries out inventory and technical accounting of real estate objects only in its region.

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How to get an up-to-date floor plan

Floor plans are used in project preparation and approval of redevelopment. Upon request to the BTI, you will receive a floor plan at the time of the last technical inventory (most likely, this period will exceed 10 years). In order to have an up-to-date floor plan in hand, it is necessary to carry out cadastral work if the object has not previously been registered with the cadastral register.

The production of an up-to-date floor plan is carried out by a cadastral engineer. To do this, measurements are taken in kind, and current USRN information on the object being surveyed or on neighboring objects is also used. If there is no information about the building in the Unified State Register of Real Estate, the cadastral engineer can use the technical documentation of the BTI, including the floor plan. All measurement results are recorded in text and graphic form of a technical plan.

Expert commentary . The current floor plan drawn up by a cadastral engineer may differ significantly from a similar BTI document. The fact is that the engineer uses high-precision inspection methods, while BTI institutions had measuring instruments and techniques with significant errors. Information about the characteristics of a building or premises, prepared as a result of cadastral work, is accompanied by a note from the engineer about the measuring instruments used and the permissible error.

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Official online representation of the organization

You can view the work schedule, addresses and contacts of a specific real estate technical inventory bureau (BTI) on the official website of Rostekhinventarizatsiya by selecting the required region. In addition, each regional BTI has its own website, where you can familiarize yourself with the operating hours, as well as the list of services provided to the population.

In addition, the websites have services where you can submit online applications. This method is a new tool that increases the efficiency of working with citizens. The service greatly simplifies the application procedure and also provides the opportunity to quickly obtain results. Thanks to this service, a citizen can independently form an application for the following types of services provided directly on the website:

• registration of an object for cadastral registration;
• Carrying out an inventory with the subsequent issuance of a technical passport;
• obtaining certain types of certificates and technical documents;
• cadastral registration of modifications;
• information before carrying out redevelopment work or its legalization and others.

This functionality allows you to reduce the time it takes to contact the BTI in person. The order is carried out remotely, the client only has to personally pick up the finished documents at a specific department or branch.

The following video tells about the implementation of BTI online services, as well as other innovations in this structure:

So, the need to use the services of BTI is completely justified: registering ownership, for example, of a dacha, apartment or private house, visaing a house register, obtaining the necessary certificates - it is often difficult for us to do without this. But it is very important that the services are provided with high quality, so do not forget to complain to the appropriate authorities if violations are identified!

What kind of organization is this?

The state enterprise Federal BTI is a government agency that carries out technical accounting of real estate objects .
Today the institution has 83 branches, over a thousand branches in the regions of Russia. The structure carries out accounting in an automated form , which allows for rapid exchange of information between all organizations conducting cadastral registration and technical inventory of land plots and other real estate: houses, structures, buildings, and so on.

The main goals of BTI activities can be considered:

• ensuring the uninterrupted functioning of the entire state registration system;
• collection of information about real estate objects of citizens and enterprises;
• formation of statistical accounting;
• creation of a tax base, which serves as the basis for the assessment of taxes and fees by the Federal Tax Service.

The following are subject to accounting in the BTI:

• land;
• unfinished construction projects;
• non-residential and residential premises;
• structures, buildings.

The BTI archives are a collection of information about all buildings: garages, large industrial enterprises, garden houses, roads, etc. Moreover, this information has been collected for decades.

Institution structure

In the course of their work, BTI employees cooperate particularly closely with almost all not only federal, but also municipal bodies and structures.

In particular, we are talking about such bodies and structures as:

• housing and communal enterprises;
• various land development committees;
• territorial bodies of Rosreestr;
• various insurers;
• courts, financial institutions, notaries and other similar bodies.

In turn, the structure of the BTI is heterogeneous , and under this lies many different institutions, namely:

• branches in small regions. As a rule, they are located in cities with a population of up to 200 thousand people;
• branches in small towns;
• the so-called workshops of utility companies;
• various representative offices;
• legal entities.

It is worth noting that this company does not receive any subsidies or other financial government assistance, so it is forced to rely only on its own income.

For this reason, the number of hired staff and the number of branches varies by region:

• in Moscow the structure has more than 1 thousand hired workers;
• in sparsely populated cities - the number on average varies from 5 to 10 workers;
• In densely populated cities, there is often a so-called organizational form - MUP BTI (municipal company), which employs about 800 people.

Often, BTI carries out its labor activities as a branch or a state company - a federal state unitary enterprise (GUP).

Such fragmentation in form can only be explained by the fact that there is no need to maintain huge branches with a considerable number of hired workers in sparsely populated cities, where the volume of real estate, including transactions with them, is small.

Based on this, the company’s self-sufficiency forces it to organize its work activities in such a way that it brings economically justified benefits and justifies financial expenses.

Types of services and their costs

The Bureau was able to obtain the necessary accreditation, which now allows us to carry out work regarding technical inventory , namely:

• carry out inspections of various real estate objects;
• generate all necessary documentation;
• make estimates relative to cost;
• assess the condition of real estate;
• produce technical passports;
• produce cadastral passports for individuals or companies.

Additionally, services are provided in the following areas:

• providing the necessary technical opinions regarding capital structures;
• archiving of all necessary information;
• registration of various capital construction projects.

In relation to land plots, the following types of work are carried out:

• defining clear boundaries;
• preparation of all necessary land management documentation for various needs;
• combining plots, as well as assigning a different category;
• conclusion of rental agreements.

The cost of services directly depends on the region of the Russian Federation:

• carrying out work regarding land management with further documentation varies up to 10,000. The lowest cost was recorded in the southern region of Russia (about 2 thousand in total), the highest in the central regions of the Russian Federation (up to 10,000 rubles);
• provision of a cadastral passport – no more than 500 rubles;
• formation of the necessary step-by-step plan - on average 2 rubles for each square meter of real estate;
• providing a certificate regarding the condition of the building - an average of 250 rubles;
• formation of an explication for the technical plan - on average 2 thousand rubles;
• the ability to determine the inventory cost of an object - no more than 450 rubles.

To clarify the necessary information and a complete list of services provided, you can find out by contacting the territorial representative office of BTI or on the official website.