Take for example the average Moscow apartment building in the panel area of 80 square meters and cost 300,000 dollars (3750 dollars per square. Meter). This apartment can rent for about $ 1200 per month, amounting to 14,400 dollars per year, ie 4.8% per annum.
Department of housing policy and housing in Moscow, has developed a program on the affordability of housing for citizens, said yesterday about the ambitious plans. Expected to reduce the level of the index of housing affordability in Moscow from the current ten to seven years (the index is determined by the number of years for which the average family can accumulate up to his apartment). This support will not only waiting (waiting period for receipt of housing will be reduced from 19 to ten years to 2010), but also to those who wish to improve their living conditions.
For the sake of objectivity, we note that the lower price offers on the border of suburban real estate market is currently at about $ 90 thousand But once we started talking about houses that are able to replace the Moscow apartment, we will take into account the facilities worth up to $ 300 thousand tons ie at a price equal to the usual three-room apartment of economy class.
Effect caps The company `Barkley` with a smile remembers his last year's success - three months on the capital's billboards sported the words: 'Buy a flat and get a hat as a gift `. The company said he wanted above all to draw attention to the company itself. And they succeeded. `At that time many people called and asked about the posters. There were dissatisfied, and the simply curious. Nevertheless, the action was quite successful, the number of transactions in the housing complexes Monomakh and `Dominant 'has nearly doubled, and even after its end, we have not lost their positions' - remember in the advertising department Barkley`. Tempted to buy hats cost $ 2,100 per square. m. A year later, no one and does not remember for what an apartment in which the complex was given a cap or shirt. The inscription itself has become part of jokes. After the famous poster in the company and decided not to make a new sensation, and similar high-profile events was not performed. Instead of baseball came quite traditional bottle of expensive cognac.
Until recently, low-rise complex of buildings was considered the height of three storeys. However, due to the rising trend in number of storeys in the complex housing, within the definition expanded. Today is considered to be low-rise building height not more than 9 floors, while the calculated density should not exceed 250 persons / ha. As low-rise suburban complexes, their class is determined by a combination of location and characteristics of the object. However, to build new maloetazhki in the capital, developers now will not allow Moscow town-planning regulations according to which on one hectare of land shall be erected not less than 25 thousand square meters. m. Under low-rise buildings going on the strength of 8 thousand square. m of land. And in general, `high-volume low-rise buildings in the capital will not be because it is in principle not to Moscow ', - said Vladimir Resin, at a press conference on Aug. 2, 2006.
Prestigious and undervalued areas exist in our city since that time. On the times of Yuri Dolgoruky will not remember, but a half century ago, the division has clearly existed. `In one of the outlying streets of Moscow ... once lived a lady, a widow '- so begins the story by Turgenev` Mu-Mu `. Street, this, to which the literary classic obviously felt a certain disdain, - Ostozhenka, today's 'Golden Mile' ...
It has long been no secret that in recent years, the land of the Moscow region were bought up Russia's largest financial-industrial groups, their subsidiaries and beneficiaries. Bought up thousands and tens of thousands of hectares. Moreover, due to the weak government's control over the process and the high level of corruption on the ground, got them on the ground is not the most expensive price. Translate and sell them for country houses or cottages can be a profit in the hundreds and thousands of percent, that happened. However, not all large landowners willing to engage in the transfer of land and real estate development. For many investments in land have become a reliable way and not burdensome (not yet earn a full land tax) to preserve the assets - the active work in such places they do not lead. For Sale plots exposed to the growth of prices and the desire of investors to sell these assets and send proceeds to other projects. And recently the number of plots offered for sale is growing.
The first decided to move into the region of Muscovites, who had hoped to collect more money for housing economy class. As hopes for affordable housing in the capital have not been fulfilled, they unwillingly had to move to satellite towns. 'In Moscow, the greatest demand the cheapest housing prices in the first half of 2006 grew primarily at the home, located in sleeping areas, regions outside Moscow, on the panel housing and one-bedroom apartment - explains Simon Puzrin, manager of the Finance UK `CONCORDIA -- Asset Management `. - When affordable and sentence in the Moscow market subsided, demand for the Muscovites in the Moscow housing has increased significantly, because to get from the nearest urban region (within 5 km from Moscow) about the same number of sleeping areas in Moscow, and the cost per square meter in these cities and a half to two times lower than in the capital `.
The continuing contrary to predictions, the rise in prices has made Moscow a luxury accommodation. Odnushki in such suburbs as Marino or South Butovo, are no less than 150 thousand dollars. Cheaper can buy only apartments with significant disabilities. It offers in this price range a bit: even in the largest agency can be counted on the fingers. Ability to choose, rather than buy something for that lack of funds, there is a client only from the fiscal note in the 200-300 thousand dollars. True, the housing business class in downtown Moscow holder of this sum would not come.
However, as the Eastern proverb, from the frequent repetition of the word "halva" in the mouth does not become sweeter. Following the adoption of the famous package of 27 laws of "Affordable and Comfortable Housing - to citizens of Russia" affordability index of residential property in many regions of Russia has increased, that is, purchase of housing has become more feasible task for the general population.
