Experts compared the prices of Moscow and “Castle” housing: the difference goes through the roof

Experts have calculated that with the money earned from the sale of an apartment in the provinces with an average area of ​​54 square meters, a Russian can buy in Moscow a “kennel” of 8 to 17 “squares”. In fact, for the cost of full-fledged housing in the regions, people can buy a toilet or a kitchen in the capital.

Owners of housing in St. Petersburg and Sochi turned out to be “more equal than others”: having sold two-three-room housing, they are able to buy in the capital a “one-room apartment” with an area of ​​34.7 and 37 square meters, respectively. True, in a cheaper secondary market. The available area of ​​housing in new buildings is even less – minus 3-4 meters.

Owners from the Moscow region, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Surgut were not the poorest either. They are able to purchase a “secondary” studio with an area of ​​20 to 27 square meters.

– This is still a good option, – the authors of the study, experts of the federal portal “World of Apartments” comment. – The fact is that residents of other cities of Russia, even “millionaires”, will not be able to buy such housing in Moscow.

Here are examples. With the money from the sale of a three-room apartment, a Tagilian will be able to get 8.6 square meters in the Russian capital, a resident of Kurgan – 10.7, Magnitogorsk – 11.2, Orenburg – 11.7, Izhevsk – 12.9 “square”.

– Even the “average” 17 square meters, which, for example, residents of Tula, Ulan-Ude and Krasnoyarsk can count on, is a tiny studio the size of a hotel room, not suitable for permanent residence, except perhaps for renting out, – comments the general director of the portal Pavel Lutsenko.

If a Russian sells his apartment to move to a “permanent place”, he needs to add at least the same amount of money for how much he sold the housing. Or take a mortgage, making the cost of the apartment as a down payment. But even under such conditions, the cost of payments will be very high. “If you take a loan from a bank at 10.9% for 10 years, the monthly installment will be 71 thousand rubles,” the specialist comments.

Five years ago, experts conducted a similar study, and then the average purchase amounted to 14 “squares”. “Judging by the dynamics of price growth in the regions, it can be assumed that they will continue to grow at a faster pace than in the “overheated” capital. And then Moscow real estate in five years will become even a little more affordable for residents of Russian cities than now – by 1 -2 square meters,” Pavel Lutsenko believes either jokingly or seriously.

At the same time, experts from another company, Metrium, recorded a decrease in the cost of new Moscow apartments and suites over the year. But not so much due to the fall in the price per square meter (only 0.2%), but due to a decrease in the area of ​​housing – from 57.1 sq. m to 53.8 sq. m on average. As a result, the average room in houses from developers fell in price by 6%.

In mass new buildings, the size of apartments decreased on average from 47.7 sq. m to 43.8 sq. m. In the business class – from 64.9 to 60.5 square meters. m. In the premium class – from 80.4 to 78.2 sq. m. m. Even elite apartments and apartments have become smaller – their area has decreased from 170.6 sq. m to 163.3 sq. m. In New Moscow, the size of the average apartment has decreased from 50 “squares” to 47.6.

But developers lure buyers not only by reducing the area. “Discounts have become widespread, in about half of new buildings, and they reach almost a third (more precisely, 32%) of the initially declared cost of apartments,” says Ruslan Syrtsov, managing director of the company. “Given the huge volume of supply, more than seventy thousand options, we are dealing with the “buyer’s market. There are few customers, the competition is huge, so you have to make concessions.”