About 300 real estate objects in the Vitebsk region are subject to sale at auctions in 2013
Approximately 300 state-owned real estate objects in the Vitebsk region are subject to auction sale this year. This was announced by Mikhail Pavlyuchkov, Director of the Vitebsk Regional Territorial Fund of State Property.
In January-June of the current year, the Vitebskoblimushchestvo fund has already conducted 22 successful auctions, selling 31 real estate objects. Over Br6 billion has been transferred to budgets of various levels from the sale of state property.
"The results of the six-month period give hope that this year's profitability will significantly exceed last year's level (in 2012, 172 real estate objects were sold at 63 successful auctions for a total of over Br9 billion). This year, investors are showing greater activity towards unused state property. A month ago, an unused canteen building with a canopy, located in the urban settlement of Shumilino, was sold at auction. The sale price of the real estate object was Br710 million. The property was sold for a roadside service facility (cafe, hotel)," commented Mikhail Pavlyuchkov on the state of affairs.
He also emphasized that with the entry into force of Presidential Decree No. 294 of July 4, 2012, "On the Procedure for Disposal of State Property," there has been an increase in the interest of potential buyers in objects put up for auction. Now, the buyer has the right to demolish acquired capital structures (buildings, constructions), unfinished conserved and unconserved capital structures, and to construct a new facility for entrepreneurial activity, or to demolish individual objects included in the acquired property that cannot be used by them for entrepreneurial activity. This norm also applies to real estate objects located in the regional center.
Information on assigned auctions and objects planned for sale is posted on the websites of the fund, the State Property Committee, and is sent for dissemination to the Public Association "Belarusian Union of Entrepreneurs", the Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers of the Vitebsk Region, OJSC "Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange", city and district executive committees, the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, regional executive committees, the Department of Property and Land Relations of the Smolensk Region, and other organizations.