Main points
- To search for a vacant land plot in Ukraine, it is recommended to use the Public Cadastral Map with appropriate filters.
- Another method involves sending official requests to urban planning authorities and the State Geocadastre to obtain graphic materials and verify the presence of the owner.
How to find free land / Photo Freepik
Obtaining a land plot of a specific purpose for personal use is currently the right of every citizen of Ukraine. However, to take advantage of this opportunity, you need to know the details of the procedure for obtaining land.
How to search for a plot of land?
Lawyer Maksym Boyarchukov told Channel 24 that there is no resource or service in Ukraine that has the functionality to provide information about vacant land plots in an automatic mode. Therefore, according to him, searching for such information “manually” remains relevant.
The very first resource that will come in handy when searching for a vacant land plot, according to the lawyer, is the Public Cadastral Map.
Maxim Boyarchukov
Managing Partner of the law firm “Maxim Boyarchukov and Partners”
The public cadastral map is a component of the technological and software support of the State Land Cadastre, which ensures information interaction between the land cadastre and other information systems. Simply put, it is a web portal that publishes information about lands located within the state border of Ukraine, but even in this resource you will have to search on your own.
The algorithm of actions for searching for a vacant land plot in the Public Cadastral Map is as follows:
- First, you need to select the region and territory of the settlement where the person wants to find a vacant land plot, while it is worth considering that the smaller the selected search area, the larger the scale of the map display on the monitor will be, which will facilitate the search process.
- Use the filters tool and in the “Cadastre Layers” section, enable the “Agricultural Land Disposal” filter. This will allow you to find out information about land plots for which work is already underway to transfer them to private ownership, but the process of transferring them is still ongoing.
- In the “Analytical layers” section, enable filters such as: unregistered territories and conditional coastal protection strip , this is necessary in order to track whether the selected territory belongs to the categories of land for which there are restrictions.
- After enabling filters, the public cadastral map will display land plots highlighted in color – which will mean that they are not free; and territories not highlighted in color, which will mean that land plots in such territories are unformed, and therefore free; it is among such territories that you need to search .
- If you are interested in a certain area, it is advisable to highlight it using the “Area” tool , which will allow you to clearly see the approximate location of the future land plot and have an idea of its approximate dimensions.
- After determining the approximate location of the future land plot, it will not be superfluous to compare it with the data of the Forest and Nature Reserve cadastres .
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Among the advantages of this search method, Maksym Boyarchukov says that a person can do it independently , without leaving home, and among the disadvantages is that this method allows for an approximate search, since some land plots may be occupied, but information about this is simply not entered in the Land Cadastre.
How else can you find vacant land?
Another option for conducting a search is to send official requests to the manager of such information, usually a local urban planning and architecture authority, a territorial authority of the State Geocadastre, where, after paying a fee, it is possible to order graphic materials regarding the location of the land plot and information about the presence or absence of an owner.
This option is more reliable, its result will be official, but to implement it, you should contact a lawyer for professional legal assistance.
– the lawyer notes.
Maksym Boyarchukov notes that this is necessary because getting an answer risks turning into a whole quest – starting from determining the appropriate information manager and ending with the process of appealing the inaction or negative decision of the information manager.
Which Ukrainians can avoid paying land tax?
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War veterans, old-age pensioners, citizens with disabilities of groups I and II, as well as individuals raising 3 or more children under the age of 18 are exempt from paying land tax.
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The tax exemption is valid only for plots whose sizes do not exceed the established limits for various types of land use, such as agriculture, horticulture, summer cottage construction, etc.