27 February, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. The Vitebsk regional territorial fund "Vitebskoblimushchestvo" intends to sell unused state property to individuals for housing purposes at auction for the first time, the fund's director Mikhail Pavlyuchkov told a BELTA correspondent.
The auction is scheduled for March 15. Among the lots put up for sale are two buildings of former post offices in villages in the Senno and Rossony districts. Both are single-story capital structures, one with an area of 40.7 sq.m, the second - 142.4 sq.m. Each real estate object has a land plot of more than 20 hundredths of a hectare. The starting price of the lots is set at Br100 thousand.
Both private businesses and individual citizens can participate in the auctions on equal terms. The condition of sale for individuals is the reconstruction of the real estate into residential premises and/or for personal subsidiary farming. For private businesses and foreign investors, the condition is to carry out entrepreneurial activities within the agreed timeframe or to demolish the acquired real estate object and construct a new facility for entrepreneurial activities.
Citizens can now acquire state property to address housing issues thanks to Decree No. 294 of July 4, 2012, "On the Procedure for Disposal of State Property," which granted them the right to acquire real estate for housing or for personal subsidiary farming in small and medium-sized settlements and rural areas. Previously, unused state property was sold to individuals solely for entrepreneurial activities, the source explained. "The innovation will not only help to bring property into circulation and allow people to purchase real estate at a reasonable price but will also breathe new life into small villages," believes Mikhail Pavlyuchkov. In the Vitebsk region, it is planned to put up for auction about thirty unused properties that citizens can purchase for reconstruction into housing.
In 2012, the "Vitebskoblimushchestvo" Fund brought 268 unused state property objects under communal ownership into economic circulation, 59% of which were sold. This year, the Fund is set to bring 289 communal property objects into circulation, of which 184 are planned to be put up for sale.-0-