First floor apartments do not like just for many reasons. Somebody does not like the proximity of streets and courtyards, someone that anyone can look in the window, someone bleak view from ground floor windows and the need to install gratings to protect against thieves. `If the number is busy highway, the first floor for residents is becoming a real challenge, as well as constantly approaching and departing vehicles in the yard '- notes Dinara Lizunova, a spokesman for the company MIAN-Real Estate.

These flats are usually sold cheaper by 10% than the middle floor. `The lower price of apartments on lower floors due to the proximity of the street with all the consequences, less protection from looting, lack of species' characteristics, - notes Alex Ostrobrodov sales manager of Inter-regional development company. First floor apartments are not only cheaper, but hardly sold. `This is because the windows look directly at the entrance, trash chute is located in close proximity, often a smell of the cellar, and there is increased risk of theft '- now complements Elina Sapunov, head of the secondary market of the Transfiguration of the Group of Companies MGSN. However, if in an apartment on the first floor is made good repair, installed security system, and in the other apartments of this house like it is done - it could cost more, but this rarely occurs.

Categories of citizens who may be interested in ground floor apartment is not very much. First, it is constrained in the media buyers, for whom a difference of 10% of the cost - is critical. Secondly - the limited possibilities of movement of citizens - pensioners and the disabled who find it difficult to travel long distances, and the breakdown of the elevator - just do not allow yourself to get into the apartment. `And then, even more retired people prefer the second floor` - notes Dinara Lizunova.

Builders of homes are aware of the secret and obvious dislike of citizens to unnecessary `mundane 'apartments and, therefore, as a rule, the first and sometimes the second floor in the new buildings set aside for non-residential premises, which could be profitably sold. For example, in the first 2 floors of residential complexes are non-residential premises, where infrastructural facilities are located: cafés and restaurants, nursery schools, reception centers laundry and dry cleaning, design offices, mini-markets. `Price of non-residential premises is higher than the average price of apartments in the complex`, - said Executive Director of the Department of Real Estate of MIRAX GROUP Alexander Motorin. They stimulate such use of the first floors of houses and local authorities, lobbying placement on the first floors of consumer services, shops, facilities housing and communal services.

It is for those who want to use the apartment on the first floor for offices, shops and other commercial activities, they are in high demand. So buyers can sell the apartment on the first floor is much costlier than any other and the `discount 'of 10%, here it is not going. There are specialized real estate agency, dealing with purchase of apartments on the 1st floors of the busiest and most prestigious streets, their translation into non-fund and the subsequent sale of income in tens of percent. `Very popular among traders using non-standard ground floor apartment, where there is an opportunity to make a separate entrance and, consequently, to translate into non-fund, that is to turn the apartment into the office, which then, for example, can be advantageous to resell. Or was originally purchased for this purpose ', - says Elina Sapunova.

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On the top floor of a dwelling house (as opposed to the first) to open a store or restaurant impractical - traders are not interested. But for ordinary buyers of apartments is biased against them. `There is a long-established stereotypes, misconceptions about the possibility of leaks from the roof, lack of heat, weak water pressure on the top floors`, - said Alexei Ostrobrodov. In case of failure to lift them will have a long reach - and we climb the stairs to the 16-20 floor easy even a trained person. `In addition, these apartments are close to the elevator motor, which produces a loud noise ', - notices Elina Sapunova. `In the last floors of the high risk of the impossibility of evacuation in case of fire '- complements bleak picture Olga Pobedinskaya, director of marketing real estate agent` 002 `:.

Therefore, such an apartment building in an average of 5% cheaper than on other floors. But if on the last floor residential towers, and more technical floor, then, as noted by Diran Lizunova, the difference in price there.

Sometimes `elevated` apartment can cost more expensive than normal, because, as noted Ostrobrodov Alex, they have maximum species characteristics, less audible because of the lack of apartments above. Tenants of such apartments are no neighbors above, which may disturb the music, family scenes and other noise. `On the upper floors of the best ecological situation, as the exhaust gases do not rise above the 5-th floor`, - says Olga Pobedinskaya.

Apartments on the top floor may be of interest to artists, who value freedom, light, pure air and silence. `The use of such premises for the studio apartments - one of the options`, - said Alexei Ostroborodov.

Increased demand for apartments on the top floors, if there is, as noted by Olga Pobedinskaya, the possibility of privatization and the use of attic for personal purposes. `These flats are interesting, if you can attach attic to attic, that is, in fact, increase the area of his apartment`, - confirms Ellina Sapunova. However, permission to use and the privatization of the attic is not easy.

Builders elite houses, in order to effectively sell the top floor suit them penthouses, with whom have a great species. `It allows you to sell them at a maximum price`, - says Alexander Motorin. The top floor in a luxury home or home business-class, equipped with a penthouse, is considered a status of housing and cost more than all the other apartments, confirms Dinara Lizunova.