Notary technologies: top 5 regions whose residents most often choose remote transactions

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Muscovites are increasingly making deals with residents of Crimea, the Krasnodar Territory, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, while saving on tickets and hotels and preserving another important resource — personal time. How do they do this? Using modern notary technologies. Thus, at the end of the year, a record number of notarized remote transactions were concluded between Moscow and Crimea. The “Moscow-Krasnodar Territory” team took second place. The northern capital closes the top three, whose residents also managed to “taste” all the advantages of remote transactions — primarily within the framework of business ties with Crimeans and Muscovites.

The year 2023 left no doubt: convenient and secure remote transactions in notarial form are in demand, and the trend for this format is confidently gaining momentum. Over the past year, the demand for the remote format has doubled, and, if compared with the indicators of the first year of operation of the notary “remote” service, its popularity has increased 9 times. What is important is that today there is practically no region left in Russia where the remote format is out of work. Notaries across the country have experience in remote transactions — from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. This format has been mastered in hard-to-reach areas, in new territories, in cities with a population of over a million, and in small towns. Moreover, the option of a tripartite trans-regional transaction has also come into practice, when notaries of not two, but three subjects of the Russian Federation are involved in the transaction. In particular, such transactions were certified by notaries of the Amur, Astrakhan, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Samara, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk regions, chambers of the Crimea and Tatarstan, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Perm and Stavropol territories.

For example, two co-owners (one from Samara, the other from Novosibirsk) remotely sold an apartment that they had inherited to a resident of Angarsk. The property was located exactly in the buyer’s region of residence, and the possibility of remote verification of the transaction allowed sellers to avoid long flights, difficulties with accommodation and other problems. In another example, a tripartite remote transaction concerned the allocation of shares in an apartment purchased with maternal capital funds and the subsequent sale of this housing. The buyer and the property itself were located in Krasnoyarsk, two owners (husband and wife) were in Sochi, and the third owner, their adult daughter, was in St. Petersburg.

If we talk about areas of application, then the remote format of transactions, as before, is most popular when it comes to real estate transactions. The second place is occupied by the sphere of marriage and family legal relations, the third — corporate transactions.

If you look at the reasons why applicants most often turn to the remote option of certifying a contract, then the most common and obvious argument here will be distance. In the case of remote communication, the parties to the transaction are freed from the need to travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers to meet each other, save on tickets and accommodation, and do not face the problem of taking time off or vacation from work. In fact, the only thing that is required from each participant in the transaction is to find 30-40 minutes to visit a convenient notary office. This is exactly how long it takes on average today to process a transaction remotely.

What is especially important is that the choice in favor of a modern and technological format for concluding a transaction in this case does not create any additional risks for the parties, as happens with absentee online transactions in simple written form. A transaction in a remote format involving two or more notaries retains all the security guarantees that the notarial form generally provides. That is, notaries, as in the “classic version,” personally communicate with the parties to the agreement, find out their real will, talk in detail about the legal consequences of the transaction and carry out all the necessary verification actions. At the same time, notaries involved in the transaction bear joint and several full property liability for the quality and result of their work. In addition, during remote transactions, video recording is a prerequisite, which provides additional guarantees of protection against subsequent challenges. As a result, a remote transaction today has actually become a reliable and progressive alternative to a risky transaction through a representative, where the notarial form is used only for the power of attorney, and not for the contract itself.

It should be noted that the idea of ​​introducing such a progressive and popular format for citizens and businesses into the practice of Russian notaries began to be worked out back in 2018. Remote transactions have become one of the key points of the concept of the so-called second wave of digitalization of notaries, the preparation of which was carried out by a special working group of the Federal Tax Service.

Returning to the topic of arguments in favor of remote verification of a transaction, one cannot help but note a certain psychological “bonus” of this format — the parties to the contract do not have to personally meet and communicate with each other. Such a nuance can often even play a decisive role — for example, if former spouses turn to notaries who need to resolve the issue of dividing property or paying alimony.

For participants in the corporate sphere, the remote format is certainly an effective way to save one of the most valuable resources in business — time. Organizing a meeting of, say, two owners or top managers of companies in one place can be almost impossible, even if both of them are located, for example, in the capital. Instead of standing in traffic jams for hours and making adjustments to a busy work schedule, it is much more expedient for them to contact several notaries at once and resolve the issue with minimal time costs. What can we say about corporate transactions, the participants of which are located in different regions — the remote format here often becomes a real salvation.

Residents of hard-to-reach and sparsely populated areas should be identified as a separate “target audience” of the remote format. For them, the option of traveling to another city, or even more so a subject of the Russian Federation, to resolve certain legal issues may simply be unavailable due to weather conditions, difficulties with transport links and other features of the places where they live. It is the notary who is a qualified lawyer, available even in such distant and often cut off from the rest of the world corners of our country. And the presence of special technical means and equipment allows him to solve an issue that worries a person without unnecessary headaches.

The remote format is practiced today for a wide variety of transactions: pledge agreements, loans, guarantees, mediation agreements, for determining shares in rights, division of inheritance, etc. At the same time, the scope of its application has every chance of becoming even wider. In particular, the initiative receives expert support initiative on the dissemination of a remote format for certifying decisions of meetings of company participants.

source: Federal Notary Chamber

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