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DOI: Lifetime Maintenance Contracts, Foreign Ownership Limits, And Category-Specific Restrictions in Uzbekistan’s Real Estate Alienation Law
Abstract
Not every real estate deal in Uzbekistan fits comfortably inside the Civil Code’s general rules on sale, exchange, and donation. This article looks at four situations where those general rules run thin: the lifetime maintenance contract, through which an elderly owner trades property for ongoing care; transactions involving foreign buyers, whose rights are limited by restrictions spread across several unconnected laws; special categories of property: farmland, heritage buildings, and shared space in apartment blocks, where sectoral rules and the general alienation regime do not line up; and the gap between civil and tax law that encourages parties to understate the price they actually paid. Drawing on comparisons, the article proposes a more protective chapter, a single consolidated law on foreign ownership.
Keywords
Lifetime maintenance contract, agricultural land pre-emption, condominium common property
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