Buying an apartment in a new building - what you need to know

Buying an apartment in a new building is a very serious and responsible step and requires considerable preparation. Make the right choice and buy an apartment that will become your fortress for many years, this article will help.

Information about the builder

If you decide to buy an apartment in a new building, before that you need to collect all possible information about the developer. First of all, it is necessary to find out how long the developer exists in the real estate market, who invests in the construction, whether there are already finished and handed over houses. This information is very important if you want the house to be delivered on time and the developer has not disappeared with your money, you were able to enter your new apartment and not worry about her condition.

If the developer is not the first year in the construction, the tenants of the houses that have already been handed over are quite satisfied and speak well of it - one can deal with such a developer. If the developer has recently appeared on the construction market, there are no rented houses, then you should treat him with utmost cautiousness, no matter how attractive the prices and reviews are.

As a rule, the Internet has a lot of information about the developer and investor company, so finding information about them will not be difficult.

But do not neglect the opportunity to personally familiarize yourself with the documentation for the house under construction. When meeting with the developer ask for the following documents: building permit, land documents, project declaration. Copies of these documents, signed by the general director and with a firm seal, must be in order from the developer, and he must legally present them to any interested person (art. If for some reason the developer does not want to show you these documents, it is worthwhile to seriously consider whether it is worth buying an apartment from him. Also, it's not at all superfluous to find out about the agreements with the gas and energy companies. This is necessary in order to immediately after the introduction in your apartment had all the necessary communications.

Conclude an agreement

Now all the necessary information is collected, the developer is reliable and you are ready to enter into an agreement with him on share construction. There are several types of such an agreement, but the most reliable one is a shared construction agreement, it is unlikely to be able to understand the rest without the power of a competent lawyer.

What should a shared construction agreement include:

1. Definition and description of an object that participates in a shared construction

2. Term in which the developer undertakes to transfer the object of the shared construction

3. The price, terms and procedure of payment

4. Warranty period for the object

   Particular attention when concluding an agreement on equity construction should be turned to paragraph 3.

House inspection

The houses under construction are of several types - panel, brick and frame-monolithic . Brick houses are traditional, time-tested. At present, mostly elite houses are being built of bricks, since brick is quite expensive material, and houses from it require more time for construction.

Panel houses are built quickly, they are quite warm and durable, with all the technical requirements of the panels you can build a 20-storey house. But the panel houses have some features:

• The walls of the panels can not be demolished, therefore, redevelopment is not possible. This is worth remembering when buying

• Sound insulation in panel houses is very weak, and you will hear well what is happening behind the wall

  The most common houses, combining the advantages of brick and panel, - frame-monolithic. In such houses, the load-bearing frame is a frame, so it is possible to redevelop, almost all the walls inside can be demolished. Developers, trying to save, sell apartments without internal partitions, so that future owners could plan their own apartment.

The price of an apartment can depend not only on what materials it is built, but also on how many apartments are located in the house and directly on the staircase. The smaller their number, the higher the cost of your apartment.

Infrastructure

Not the least role in choosing an apartment is the infrastructure of the house. If the family has children, then one of the criteria when buying an apartment is the availability of a clinic, a kindergarten, a school, supermarkets, public transport stops in the nearest reach. If the house is in a built-up area, problems with this should not arise. If the house is built in a new area, you need to find out from the builder how soon their construction will be carried out. As a rule, the first floors of apartment buildings provide for the placement of shops, pharmacies, business premises, beauty salons, etc., but it will not be superfluous to ask about it directly from the builder.

Also, do not forget that almost every family now has a car, or even a few. Therefore, when buying an apartment, you should pay attention to whether there is parking near the house, how many cars it is designed for and how many places for cars are allocated per family.

Finishing of apartments in new buildings

Buying an apartment in a new building, you can choose from three options for finishing.

First - the finish is not as such . You have a concrete floor, brick walls or panels, glazed windows without window-sills, electricity meter, wires. Pros - you are limited only by your own imagination, and you can do whatever you want. Less - you have a long and expensive repair ahead of you.

Option two - finish roughing . The apartment has a cement floor screed , plaster or gypsum plaster on walls, electrical wiring with outlets and switches, windows - double glazed windows with slopes and window sills. This apartment is not yet ready for occupancy, but the main finishing work is done. You will have to make a finishing finish, but it is easier and faster.

The third kind of finishing is a finished apartment . After the purchase, you can immediately enter into such an apartment and live for your own pleasure. There will already be plumbing, stove, wallpaper or paint on the walls, linoleum and more. Naturally, all this will not be of the best quality, but you can always replace something that you do not like.

Receiving an apartment

So, the documents are signed, your apartment and you are ready to enter it. It remains only to take the apartment from the developer and check whether everything corresponds to the papers and your expectations.

Regardless of the finishing options, it must be produced qualitatively. You have to check whether everything is in fact the way the developer promised you and how you have in the contract, whether there are any shortcomings, whether everything is in order. If something does not correspond to this, you should not sign the act of acceptance of the apartment, if everything is good and meets your requirements and the builder's promises, the apartment is at your disposal and within five years there is a warranty period for it. During this period there will be violations in the construction, because of which you have any problems, the developer will have to eliminate them at a certain date or compensate you for damages.