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An apartment in a building under construction differs from a finished one in that payment comes earlier than the moment the buyer receives the property. For this reason the construction permits, the terms of the contract and the payment schedule come into focus, not just the apartment and its price.
First read the material on buying a new build: it explains how the stage of completion is described, how developer instalments work and what protects the buyer. Then open the developer checklist, which gathers the questions worth asking before signing. The material on verifying a property helps to cross-check against the registry, and the detailed buying guide shows how a new build fits into the general order of a transaction.
What to prepare in advance: a draft of the contract to read without hurry, a list of questions about deadlines, payments and the consequences of a delay, and an understanding of how title is registered once construction is finished. Any terms discussed orally are worth seeing in the text of the contract.
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Read this if you need to cross-check the developer and the property against registry data.
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Frequently asked questions
How does buying in a building under construction differ from buying a finished apartment?
Payment and receiving the property are separated in time, so the permits, the payment schedule and the contract terms for a delay matter more. These differences are covered in the material on new builds.
What is usually fixed in a developer's contract?
The description of the property, the handover dates, the order and size of payments, the responsibility of the parties for breaches and the moment of title registration. A detailed list is given in the developer checklist; the final text is best shown to a lawyer.
How can a developer be checked?
Through public registry data and the documents the company is obliged or ready to provide: permits, information on the land plot, information on other projects. The order is described in the material on verifying a property and in the checklist.
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