Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation

1. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation Alexey L. Overchuk, Ph.D. Deputy Chief Federal Land Cadastre Service of Russian

2. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Goals of the Land Reform • Sustainable economic growth through development of market tools • Increase of the living standard

3. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Objectives • Breaking up of the state monopoly of land ownership • Introduction of private property in land • Introduction of land market infrastructure • Development of land market infrastructure

4. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Results • Positive • Private property institutions introduced • Real estate market is starting to develop • Large farms restructured • Land rent and taxes introduced

5. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Results • Negative • Land has not become a value generating capital • Large areas of productive land are removed out of farm production • Heavy tax burdens and unpredictable rent levels

6. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Conclusions • Land reform has nor achieved targeted goals • Land reform is just halfway through • Need to identify bottlenecks and ways of removing them

7. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Bottlenecks • Handling of land administration • Institutional arrangements • Incomplete land market support infrastructure • Incomplete land privatization • Unclear land policy objectives • Inadequate regulation of land market

8. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Bottlenecks • Handling of land administration • Institutional arrangements • Wide and often unclear duplicating division of responsibility among government agencies • Public and private law functions combined in one agency • Difficult to develop a comprehensive and targeted land policy

9. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Bottlenecks • Handling of land administration • Incomplete land market support infrastructure • Land Cadastre – federal system • Registration of buildings – municipal system • Registration of rights regional system • Lack of information exchange • Lack of adequate public access • Targets • Unified cadastre • Information exchange between cadastre and register of rights

10. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Bottlenecks • Handling of land administration • Incomplete land privatization • Transfer of land plots occupied by private companies into their property • Buy or rent • How much is enough? • All except what is needed for government needs • Is land is a natural resource that has public value other then simply been real estate?

11. Modern Trends in Land Administration: Russian Federation • Land Reform Bottlenecks • Handling of land administration • Inadequate regulation of land market • Taxation • Land tax • Real estate tax • Removal of administrative barriers • Independent professionals • Licensing • Self regulating organizations • Introduction of zoning mechanisms