One of the main directions of Russia's housing policy is the elimination of dilapidated housing stock. Commissions are established to assess the technical condition of buildings to reduce the number of dilapidated buildings in municipalities. At the same time, the number of surveyed buildings is growing every year. There are no special measuring devices in municipalities. It means that method used to assessment of physicaldeterioration should be simple, fast and giving reliable results. There is comparative analysis of the three methods for assessing the technical condition of buildings in this article on the example of the apartment building in Yekaterinburg. The results of the evaluation are compared, the advantages and disadvantages of each method are determined according to the criteria of practical using by specialists of municipalities. Based on this results the need to develop a combined method for determining the technical condition of buildings, taking into account the conditions of the survey, is determined. The introduction of such a method will speed up the process of creating a safe and comfortable living environment for citizens, which will contribute to the socio-economic development of the region and the country.
Keywords: technical condition, physical deterioration, emergency condition, dilapidated residential building, categories of technical condition, methods of assessing physical deterioration, inspection, defect, damage, demolition