How to check a developer before starting cooperation with him?

But you shouldn't rely solely on the developer rating for the following reasons:

This is a commercial rating, not a state rating. The evaluation criteria there are not always clear and transparent.

The rating does not take into account nuances. For example, a company was building a house with delays, and then its owner changed - this happens with legal entities. And it turned out that the first company postponed the deadlines, and the second one finished the construction - and exactly on the date that it promised. And all subsequent objects were delivered on time. But there are no such details in the object card.

The one-stop resource for real estate developers, the ERZ, has a page that ranks real estate developers. You can sort them:

• in terms of speed of construction;
• the amount of housing that's being rented;
• consumer qualities of housing complexes - a benchmark that evaluates more than one hundred parameters such as architecture, parking, social infrastructure, security, entrance groups, engineering systems and others.

But you should not focus only on the rating of real estate developers for the following reasons:

1. This is a commercial rating, not a state rating. The evaluation criteria there are not always clear and transparent.
2. The rating does not take into account nuances. For example, a company was building a house with delays, and then its owner changed - it happens with legal entities. And it turned out that the first company postponed the deadlines, but the second company completed the construction - and exactly in the time that it promised. And all the following objects were delivered on time. But there are no such subtleties in the object card.
3. There may be inaccuracies in the rating, especially for smaller developers. For example, it may be stated that the developer has several completed housing estates, but in fact all these housing estates were built by different legal entities.

I recommend considering all the criteria together. And before concluding a contract, gather up-to-date information about a particular housing estate. I will tell you in detail how to do this.