How to check a new building in Dushanbe before you buy
By Makon Team · 7 October 2026 · 3 min read
Most flats in Dushanbe are bought before the building is finished, often in instalments that run for years. That means a buyer is trusting the developer with a lot of money for a long time. The good news is that the most important check takes a few minutes and costs nothing: whether the project has official permission, and in what state that permission is.
Why check before you pay
A sales office can be beautiful and a brochure convincing, and neither tells you whether the building has a permit. Problems with permission are the kind that stop construction or delay the handover of keys, and a buyer who has already paid half the price has little room to walk away.
Checking first is not a sign of distrust. Serious developers expect it, and many are glad when a buyer asks, because a project with its papers in order sells faster once the buyer has seen them.
Step 1: find the project on memor.pro
memor.pro is a map of high-rise residential projects in Dushanbe with official permission. It lists more than three hundred projects across the Sino, Firdavsi, I. Somoni and Shohmansur districts, and for each one it shows the developer, the permit decision number and a status in three colours: green for fully approved, yellow for in approval and red for problematic.
Open the map, find the building by its address or by the developer's name, and note the colour and the decision number. A project that is not on the map at all deserves a direct question to the developer before any money changes hands.
Step 2: match the details
The permit only protects you if it belongs to the company you are actually paying. Before signing, compare three things:
- The developer's legal name on memor.pro and the seller's name in your contract.
- The decision number on memor.pro and the one the developer shows you on paper.
- The address and the building on the map and the ones named in your contract.
Step 3: read what you sign and keep every receipt
Read the whole contract, not only the price: the exact flat and its area, the instalment schedule with every date and amount, what happens if a payment is late, and when the keys are handed over. If anything is unclear, ask for it in writing, and have a lawyer read it if the amount is large.
Then keep a receipt for every payment, cash or bank. A receipt with the amount in words, the date and the contract number is your record that the money was paid, years from now.
“Trust, but verify.”
For developers: make the check easy
If your project is green on memor.pro, say so. Show it on the screen in your sales office, put the decision number in your adverts, and let buyers see it for themselves. The buyer who has checked is the buyer who signs today.
The rest of the trust is built by how you sell. Contracts generated from your own approved template, a clear schedule on every contract, and a receipt in the Tajik format with the amount in words for every payment are exactly what a careful buyer looks for, and what Makon produces for each sale.
Before paying for a flat in Dushanbe, find the project on memor.pro, match its details to your contract, read what you sign and keep every receipt. Developers who make that easy sell faster.
Further reading
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, 2011
A Nobel laureate on how people actually decide — anchors, loss aversion, first impressions. Explains why a price list and a show flat matter so much.