The lawyer warned about the new law for owners of garden plots

On September 1, 2025, a federal law comes into force prohibiting the owners of garden plots in farming co-ops and ONTs from dividing residential buildings, garden houses and outbuildings between different owners, as well as alienating them separately from the land plot. As Natalia Shaluba, managing partner of Veritas Lex, president of the ADVOLOGIA Legal Center, explained in an interview with Izvestia on September 1, the house and the plot are now considered as a single property complex and are indivisible by law.

The new rules, according to the lawyer, are designed to stop the chaotic fragmentation of country houses and prevent horticultural associations from turning into blocks of apartment buildings. Previously, there was a practice when a house for several owners was built on one site, divided into isolated parts. This actually led to the emergence of an apartment building on lands not intended for such development.

"The law is also aimed at eliminating the possibility of dividing plots into parts smaller than the minimum size, which previously allowed, for example, to build a house on four hundred square meters, divide it and allocate two hundred square meters of land under it. Such manipulations violate urban planning regulations, in particular the requirements for margins, and further make it impossible to legally build on such small plots," Shaluba added.

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The ban applies only to garden lands, the expert clarified. Plots for individual housing construction (IHS) and personal subsidiary farming (LPH) are regulated by other regulations. It is also important that the legal status of houses that were divided before the law came into force is preserved, since civil legislation does not allow retroactive effect of the law. Registration of common shared ownership, for example, spouses or heirs, on a single object remains possible.

The lawyer warned: if the owners ignore the new rules and try to sell parts of the house separately, Rosreestr will refuse state registration of such transactions. Such agreements can be challenged in court, which creates additional legal risks for unscrupulous buyers.

On August 17, State Duma deputy Sergei Kolunov announced that new grounds for the seizure of orphan land plots would be introduced in Russia from September 1. According to him, the lack of a built and registered residential housing facility will be one of the reasons for the withdrawal.

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