The article analyses the dynamics of development of civil legislation in terms of regulation of real estate issues. The author comes to the conclusion that under the influence of public law legislation, reasonable changes were made to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, while the concept of a real estate has not changed for thirty years, and this, in the author’s opinion, is also justified. In general, the author comes to the conclusion that despite diametrically opposed goals, in real estate matters, civil and public legislation coexist quite harmoniously.