Formally, the council flats to sell, of course, impossible: living in her face are the only employers and no legal action to make housing may not (sell, give, bequeath, mortgage, execute a contract of rent, etc.). However, not everyone knows that the exchange of housing nobody canceled. You can exchange one municipal apartment to another. However, pick up option for exchange is much more difficult than in Soviet times: the overwhelming number of offerings on the market involve the sale.

But, do not look realistic option for the exchange of council flats can receive the money. In fact - is for sale, legally - exchange. Deposit is issued is as follows: Agent selects a buffer housing. Actually, he will not even picks up, as firms that are taken for this, this housing already have. Typically, this is the rural home in some backwater. In fact, the law requires that the contract of barter property on both sides of the transaction were equivalent, but really this is not overlooked. The buyer makes a deposit, signed the necessary documents, cash for in the bank box. The documents submitted for registration and literally a week later everything was ready. The seller receives money from the cell and should be discharged from the apartment. And then he frees and buffer area. Buyer's apartment prescribes ... all. It's even faster and easier than in the sale.

Possible complications

But not so simple. First of all, the buyer should be interested in the question: why, in fact, the seller does not want an apartment to privatize and sell the normal way? Of course you can cite a number of arguments. First, through the exchange is simpler - no extra time and money. Secondly, the seller may, for some reason do not wish to use their right to privatize. But in reality it is possible that in the family living space around the stems some ugly history, and the buyer can it be extreme. For example, one family member does not want to include another in the privatization. Or perhaps that someone was discharged in absentia by the court, but the court has not handed to him (he is abroad, in prison, mental hospital, etc.) Upon receipt of a court decision, he may challenge him and say to you in his apartment or interest in it.

The saddest thing is that with any problems you can not even declare in court that the payment of a sum of money, because there was a barter rather than sale. If you declare that you are still the same and accused of sham transaction. Perhaps more innocuous variants: seller - an elderly man who does not understand the legal subtleties. He does not understand why he did not sell the municipal housing, why do it at all privatized. He can not quite understand the perspectives. This is especially true residence. He promises to shelter some distant relative, but to be registered there, he could not. And for the buyer, this means that it can not be registered in the purchased apartment. When the transaction of sale is too unpleasant, but not fatal, but with a social equivalent of the apartment is complete absence of rights to it (note that the money already paid). So, when planning to buy a house, it is important to understand the perspectives of an extract from there the former owners.