Is it possible to register real estate based solely on a technical passport?

16.12.2025 16:05 • Question

I recently learned that a notary in Kyiv registered ownership of a building solely on the basis of a technical passport, without other documents confirming the legal grounds for such registration. Please tell me, can this technical passport truly be sufficient for official real estate registration? What specific documents are absolutely necessary for everything to be legal and without risk for the future owner?

1 Answers

Lorina Fedan

Answer provided 17.12.2025 11:44

No, it is not possible to register real estate using only a technical passport, as a technical passport is a mandatory additional document containing information about the object and necessary to confirm its characteristics during operations, but the main document is the title document (purchase and sale agreement, donation, etc.), and the result of registration is an extract from the State Register of Real Rights. For state registration of real estate rights, you will need:1. Passport, taxpayer identification number, title documents for the real estate object or their copies.2. Contact a notary/registrar with these documents. The service is free of charge.3. To clarify information regarding ownership rights, the registrar/notary generates a written request to the Bureau of Technical Inventory (BTI) and provides it to you for personal submission.4. Submit a written request to the communal enterprise BTI according to the territorial affiliation of the real estate. If such a bureau has been liquidated, contact the BTI that became the successor to the archive documents.5. To obtain a certificate from the BTI, you will need: a written application; passport and taxpayer identification number (original and copies); title documents (copies); original written request from a notary (in case of inheritance, sale, donation) or registrar. The service is paid.6. The BTI provides a paper certificate within 30 days, which contains the enterprise's seal and the signature of the executor or head.7. To receive the service, re-contact the notary/registrar with the package of documents specified in point 1 and the generated certificate from the BTI.

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