State Registration of Land Lease Rights

Anna V. Sisetska

Last year the Ukrainian land market as well as the real estate market as a whole saw the introduction of a new title-based system of registration of proprietary rights, which makes the accrual of a right conditional on the registration of the same, as opposed to the previous transaction-based system, which treated the registration of a transaction giving rise to a right as a condition precedent to the accrual of such right or title. The new developments have a substantial impact on the procedure for acquiring a land lease right, which is the most popular model of doing business in Ukraine. In this context, the year 2014 is expected to be less promising and in the main limited to the development and further legislative strengthening of the principles underlying the current reform of registration of real estate and land rights…