Armenia's Manager Certification: What It Means, and the 2027 Deadline

Since 1 July 2025, running a multi-apartment building in Armenia through a համատիրություն (condominium), a trust manager or an authorised manager is a regulated professional activity — not an open trade anyone can enter. The requirement is real, the transition window is real, and the deadline that actually matters to a sitting manager is not the one most summaries lead with.

The reform, in one sentence

Article 17.1 of the Law on the Management of a Multi-Apartment Building (added by ՀՕ-2-Ն, 17 January 2023, in force 1 July 2025) makes managing a building's shared property a "professional activity": the condominium manager, trust manager or authorised manager — or, for a corporate management body, its individual manager — must meet professional qualification requirements the Government sets. The implementing act, Government Decision N 1737-Ն of 12 October 2023, spells out exactly what that qualification is and who is exempt.

Who this actually reaches

Scope it narrowly, because most summaries do not. Armenia has roughly 19,100 multi-apartment buildings. At the end of 2023, 8,043 of them — holding 342,633 apartments, almost all urban — were run by a համատիրություն, a trust manager or an authorised manager. The remaining 11,090 buildings (58% of the stock) are managed by default by the head of the community, and buildings of up to 4 owners may discharge the mandatory norms through the owners' assembly instead of a management body. Both of those categories sit outside the certification regime entirely. If your building is one of the 8,043, the requirement reaches you; if it is not, it does not.

The deadline that matters is 2027, not 2025

This is the detail worth getting right. 1 July 2025 is when art. 17.1 itself entered into force — the professional-qualification requirement exists from that date forward. But the deadline for a manager who was already running a building before the requirement existed is different: it comes from Appendix 2, paragraph 40(2) of Government Decision N 1737-Ն, which gives sitting managers no later than two years after the decision entered into force to apply for training — that is, 1 July 2027. A manager reading only the law and stopping at "1 July 2025" is reading half the rule.

What the qualification actually requires

The Committee's training programme (organised through higher-education institutions with the right accreditation) covers legal, technical, administrative and financial knowledge, on top of a secondary-vocational or higher education baseline. After training, the knowledge is tested: the question bank runs to at least 500 questions, each test draws 20 of them, and a candidate needs at least 15 points to pass. Managers who pass are added to a list the Committee publishes on its own website — and buildings in scope are required to engage a manager from that list.

What happens if you miss it

This runs on an annual cycle: information on managers who failed the test, or who never applied for training within the two-year window, is sent to their community by 1 December each year. The community head then convenes an owners' assembly with one item on the agenda — terminating that management body's mandate. As of early August 2026, only 24 people nationwide hold the certificate, almost all of them in Yerevan — a small number against 8,043 buildings, which says the transition is real but still early, not that it can be safely ignored.

What this means for how a building is actually run

Certification changes who is allowed to hold the mandate; it does not change what the mandate already requires on paper. Independent of certification, a manager owes owners a monthly report — named payments by owner and the progress of planned works, due by the 15th of the following month — and an annual report showing the balance, collections by owner and spending by line. Nothing in the law requires software for this. But a manager preparing to sit the Committee's test, or already certified and defending the mandate at the next owners' assembly, is better served walking into that conversation with clean, per-owner records than with a notebook.

Sources: RA Law "On the Management of a Multi-Apartment Building" art. 17.1 (added by ՀՕ-2-Ն, 17.01.2023) and arts. 22, 24, 26 §5, current consolidation at arlis.am/hy/acts/223635; Government Decision N 1737-Ն of 12.10.2023, Appendix 1 paras. 2–5 and Appendix 2 paras. 2, 20–21, 40–42, consolidated at arlis.am/hy/acts/225676; RA Statistical Committee, Statistical Yearbook of Armenia 2024, table 8.3; RA Urban Development Committee test results published at minurban.am. Accessed 2026-09-07.