If a foreign company/foreign citizen or resident of Ukraine plans to purchase commercial real estate in Ukraine, we recommend conducting a legal audit (due diligence) of the entire project: checking the object itself (all title documents), its history (privatization, litigation history, re-registration), checking the reliability of the counterparty in the transaction. After ensuring that the transaction is not risky, we will be able to select and advise the most optimal way to purchase such an object: in order to minimize tax obligations and expenses, while preserving and ensuring the protection of the investor’s ownership of such an object. Subsequently, our lawyers will support the entire transaction for the purchase of commercial real estate in Ukraine.

If a foreigner plans to buy residential real estate in Ukraine, our lawyers will check all documents and history of the apartment/house, prepare all necessary documents and assist in the purchase of real estate.

At the same time, a foreign company/foreigner will be able to communicate with a Zilver lawyer in English or German.

For citizens of Ukraine, before buying an apartment, inspections of apartments and developers are relevant.

Legal verification of an apartment on the secondary market is carried out as follows: based on the data about the apartment and its owners, lawyers check the presence of loans, pledges, mortgages, litigation, enforcement proceedings, entries in debtors’ registers and other necessary information about the apartment and its owners (including the previous ones).

An apartment from the developer is conducted as follows: lawyers analyze the contract proposed by the developer, check all available information about the developer and other participants in the developer’s structure, take extracts from the Real Estate Rights Register about the rights to the land plot under the house, etc.

As a result of the inspection of an apartment on the secondary market or from the developer, the lawyer provides advice with conclusions about the legal safety or the presence of legal risks in the purchase of the corresponding apartment.