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A new law governing real-estate brokerage activity in Uzbekistan enters into force on 8 November 2026, introducing mandatory professional registration, compulsory liability insurance and a centralised digital property-listing platform in a sweeping overhaul of a sector that has operated without comprehensive statutory oversight.
The centrepiece of the legislation is a Unified Registry of realtors, real-estate organisations and individual agents, to be maintained in electronic form by the designated state authority and published on an official website. The public-facing registry is intended to let buyers, sellers and tenants verify the legal standing of any broker or agency before engaging their services — a basic consumer-protection measure that has been absent from the market.
Insurance and Digital Infrastructure
The law makes civil-liability insurance compulsory for both real-estate organisations and individual agents. The requirement is designed to give clients a financial backstop in circumstances defined by legislation and the terms of individual policies, addressing a longstanding vulnerability for property buyers who have had little recourse when transactions went wrong.
A multilisting system — an electronic platform for collecting, storing and exchanging real-time property data — will also be introduced under the law. The platform is expected to reduce information asymmetry between market participants and lay the groundwork for broader digital services in the sector.
Regulatory Authority
The Agency for the Management of State Assets of Uzbekistan has been designated as the competent state body responsible for overseeing real-estate brokerage activity under the new framework. The agency will administer the registry and enforce the law’s professional-standards requirements, which include raised qualification criteria for practitioners.
The legislation frames itself as a structural reform aimed at making property transactions more transparent and at strengthening protections for both private citizens and businesses. Whether the registry and insurance mandate translate into meaningful accountability will depend on the implementing regulations and the agency’s enforcement capacity — details the law’s drafters have yet to publish publicly.