State registration of rights to real estate: the main provisions and existing problems
The article aims to reveal the theoretical aspects of state registration of rights to real estate in the Russian Federation, to identify its system and structure, as well as to carry out an analysis of the changes in the legislation of Russia, regulating basic provisions in the field of state registration of rights. In addition to this, it pays attention to the consideration of existing problems in this area and ways to solve them. The article also makes an attempt to analyse the newly created electronic resource called the Unified State Register of Real Estate, considers the principles of its functioning, examines the basis for its creation. Having studied the main provisions of certain federal laws of the Russian Federation, governing state registration of rights to real estate, as well as scientific literature on the problems in this sphere, the author of the article deals with the issues of the status of officials and bodies that are in charge of state registration of rights to real estate and acceptance of documents for its implementation, as well as points out the increasing role of notaries in the process of state registration and identifies the consequences of the strengthening of their role.