Today Kommersant published a piece based on the study.
We did not undertake the study for the sake of the statistics. What mattered to us was to understand what is happening with seizures in practice, so that we can defend our clients better in disputes over the amount of compensation.
On the ASSETO platform we therefore carried out a complete review of every order for the seizure of property in Moscow for January-July 2026, and set them against the same period of 2025: 651 orders and 12,008 properties.
This is what the study shows:
- 1,043 hectares of land came under seizure (+37%), and 938,000 sq m of buildings and premises (+85%);
- 8,100 properties, 107% more than a year earlier;
- the cadastral value of what was seized was 163.7 billion rubles (+58%);
- 1,600 owners were affected, and 62% of them are individuals;
- 88% of the properties are seized for comprehensive territorial development, and the city itself, rather than developers, initiates 95% of the orders.
The Kommersant article left out four observations which, in our view, matter particularly to owners.
1. Two-thirds of the properties being seized are garage boxes of 15-30 sq m.
Garage clusters are seized in their entirety, under a single order. The order for Dzhamgarovskaya Street, for example, seizes 1,575 properties from 517 owners at once, of whom 516 are individuals. Clusters of this kind also pass through the procedure fastest.
2. A decision on comprehensive territorial development now turns into a seizure very quickly.
The median time from a resolution on comprehensive territorial development to a seizure order has fallen from 216 days to 107. Almost half of the seizures in 2026 are carried out under resolutions on comprehensive territorial development adopted in the same year.
3. "Seized" is not the same as "taken".
We tracked separately what happened to each property seized in January-July 2025.
After 12-19 months, title had passed to the city in only 47.6% of the properties. Looked at by value, the picture is quite different: only 17% of the cadastral value had passed.
Small boxes and plots are formalised faster. Large buildings and expensive land, 86 billion rubles out of 103.3 billion rubles, are still with the previous owners a year later.
That is where the main disputes over the amount of compensation are concentrated.
4. One in three properties being seized in 2026 is in New Moscow.
Seizure is ceasing to be a story only about the old industrial zone inside the Moscow Ring Road. Relatively new buildings, plots for individual housing, household plots and garden plots in New Moscow are also in the zone of risk.
The Kommersant article: kommersant.ru/doc/8877304
The full study, with a breakdown by property and by order, is on the ASSETO platform.
At Consul Group we act for owners at every stage, from monitoring comprehensive territorial development through to a dispute over the amount of compensation.
The piece (Kommersant): http://kommersant.ru/doc/8877304
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