A Tashkent family sold their home, paid $85,000 for a larger flat and began renovating — only to discover a prosecutor’s prohibition had been registered the day after their title transfer. A court has now voided the transaction and ordered the seller to return just 71.3 million soums, roughly $5,870, because that was the sum written in the contract. The case is the third in a documented pattern of buyers losing legally purchased homes to overseas heirs.
Buyers who paid hundreds of millions of soums for apartments under the Imarat Development brand are demanding refunds after handover deadlines passed, a founders’ dispute paralysed the company, and at least one buyer says her unit was resold while she was still waiting.
A new law taking effect on 8 November 2026 requires Uzbekistan’s real-estate brokers to register in a public state registry, carry compulsory liability insurance and operate through a centralised multilisting platform, with the Agency for the Management of State Assets designated as regulator.
