Municipal property is one of the components of the economic basis of local self-government, and an important factor of the sustainable social and economic development of the city territory. The population feels and evaluates the results of the municipal property management by how its vital needs and interests are satisfied. This is to these needs and interests that municipal property is to serve that indicates its special role and causes the necessity to develop innovative approaches to the system of the municipal property management. Lack of attention of local authorities to this problem is a reason of social conflicts and a deficit of local budgets. Therefore, the management municipal property based on innovative approaches is an urgent task. To solve these issues, the author proposes, firstly, the mechanism for the formation of an innovative approach to the management system of municipal property. Secondly, he suggests a method that allows increasing efficiency of the municipal property management. The proposed mechanisms allow taking into account modern priorities of the municipal development, increasing entrepreneurial activity on the real estate market of municipalities, improving the quality of the municipal authorities’ management, and rationally using the existing municipal property objects.