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A student dormitory complex in Tashkent’s Olmazor district has been listed for sale at a starting price of 195.66 billion soums, with an auction scheduled for 4 November at 10:00 a.m. on the E-auksion electronic trading platform. The State Assets Management Agency placed the listing, offering a building and associated structures totalling 8,972 square metres on a 1.02-hectare plot at 2 Talabalar Street, Ziyo mahalla, near the intersection with the Small Ring Road.
The property is currently home to Dormitory No. 2 of Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL) and forms part of a four-building dormitory complex. It is connected to water, gas, electricity and sewerage networks. Prospective buyers must lodge a deposit of 5.87 billion soums — three percent of the starting price — to participate.
A Sale With No Handover Date
The transaction carries an unusual condition: the new owner will not gain possession until state organisations currently using the building vacate it and relocate to TSUL’s future modern campus. No specific date for that handover is stated in the auction terms, leaving the timeline open-ended at the point of sale.
The legal basis for the privatisation is Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 361, dated 2 July 2026. That resolution was adopted in closed session and does not appear in the lex.uz public legislation database, meaning the full terms under which a functioning university dormitory was approved for private sale are not publicly accessible.
New Campus, Old Site Repurposed
The sale is tied to a broader relocation plan. A presidential decree of 26 November 2025 envisaged TSUL receiving a modern campus in the New Tashkent development zone, with design and construction work planned for 2025–2028 and financing to be drawn from international financial institutions, foreign banks and construction companies. On 17 October 2026, a foundation-laying ceremony was held in New Tashkent for new buildings for both the Ministry of Justice and TSUL; Justice Minister Akbar Tashkulov attended.
Once TSUL vacates its existing premises, the current campus area is earmarked to house the Museum of Legal History of Uzbekistan, the Uzbekistan Dispute Resolution Centre, and university-affiliated centres for digital law and digital forensic expertise — a public-interest use that stands in contrast to the private sale of at least one building within the same complex.