Pre-emption right of the Housing Fund of the Republic of Slovenia in the sale of municipal land

The Housing Fund of the Republic of Slovenia, a public fund, informs local communities that the Act on Amendments and Additions to the Housing Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No.90/21), which entered into force on 19 June 2021, introduced a new instrument (legal pre-emptive right) for the sale of municipal land intended for the construction of multi-apartment buildings, which at the same time constitutes a new instrument of an active land policy, with the aim of effective implementation of the housing policy.

The new legal pre-emption right is defined in Article 154(3) and (4) of the Housing Law and is established in favour of the pre-emption beneficiary, the Housing Fund of RS. According to the legislation, local authorities are obliged to inform the Housing Fund of RS about the sale of their developable land that is (already) identified for the construction of multi-housing unit buildings in the spatial plans (regardless of how large the land is, where it is located or why it is being sold), and to offer to buy the land on the same terms and conditions of sale as the local authority has set in the case of a sale to another buyer, in accordance with the provisions and Obligations Code for the right of pre-emptive purchase of the land concerned (and regardless of how large the land is, where it is located or why it is being sold).

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