An overview of the problems of understanding real estate as an object in Ukrainian law

Spasybo-Fatyeyeva Inna

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.69724/2786-8834-2024-1-1-7-36

Keywords: real estate, object, ownership right, apartment, house, civil turnover, state registration, share in the ownership right.

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Abstract

The article reveals the concept of real estate according to the Ukrainian legislation, analyzes its types, reveals controversial approaches to the meaning of state registration of rights to real estate. Attention is drawn to the conditionality of the criteria of real estate definition provided in the law, in particular concerning an apartment and a parking place as the so-called «spatial property», an apartment building. It is proved that the real indicator of attributing certain things to real estate is not so much its physical properties and legal requirements for registration of rights to real estate, their acquisition and termination, but the importance of these things for civil turnover. The same reason and authorization of such a legal consequence of unauthorized construction as the presence of a legal mechanism for acquiring ownership rights to it. The problematic significance of the state registration of rights to real estate as a legal fact, which follows from the practice of the Supreme Court, is taken into account. The value of a share in the right to real estate as an object of law having a similar legal regime with the real estate itself is discussed.

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In accordance with DSTU 8302:2015:
Спасибо-Фатєєва І. Оглядово про проблематику розуміння нерухомості як об’єкту права. Цивілістична платформа. 2024. № 1. С. 7-36. https://doi.org/10.69724/2786-8834-2024-1-1-7-36

According to the international style of APA:
Spasybo-Fatyeyeva, I. (2024) An overview of the problems of understanding real estate as an object in Ukrainian law. С. P. Journal, 1. https://doi.org/10.69724/2786-8834-2025-4-1-7-36 [in Ukrainian].

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