Structures associated with Oleg Deripaska are acquiring the Rochdelskaya office center in Moscow for almost 3 billion rubles.

Structures associated with the owner of Basic Element Oleg Deripaska, which have not shown significant activity in the real estate market for a long time, are acquiring for almost 3 billion rubles. office center “Rochdelskaya” in Moscow. The business center can accommodate Basic Element’s structures, some of which are currently located in the neighboring Trekhgornaya Manufactory center, also owned by the holding. But experts say that the property being purchased is already outdated and requires modernization.

The board of directors of PJSC Trekhgornaya Manufactory, associated with Oleg Deripaska, at the end of December 2023 approved the acquisition for 2.88 billion rubles. business center “Rochdelskaya” with a total area of ​​12.3 thousand square meters. m on the street of the same name in the center of Moscow. This is stated in the company’s materials published on the corporate information disclosure server. The sellers of the object are legal entities, including JSC STO Avtomatika, JSC Business Style, JSC Kontrakt Sbyt. These companies could not be contacted. Trekhgornaya Manufactory did not respond to Kommersant’s request.

The ultimate owners of the selling companies are unknown. But a Kommersant source in the real estate market says that previously the Rochdelskaya business center could have belonged to the structures of Andrei Yakubovsky. His company “Parallels” acquired it at auction for 2 billion rubles in April 2023. The Parus office center (17 thousand sq. m) on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street is a former asset of the founder of the Safmar group, Mikhail Gutseriev, as follows from the auction documentation. Kommersant was unable to contact Mr. Yakubovsky.

Trekhgornaya Manufactory owns an office and retail complex of the same name with an area of ​​140 thousand square meters. m in the center of Moscow. In 2022, 76.12% of the company’s voting shares were owned by Cyprus-based Healer Side Holdings Ltd. 7.1% of Trekhgornaya Manufactory was also owned by Daniel Felicity Tova Cohen-Gaon and Marguerite Erzog-Gaon, whom Forbes calls the daughters of the founder of the Swiss Noga, Nessim Gaon.

In 2021, they challenged the decision to issue additional shares of the company in favor of structures associated with the owner of Basic Element Oleg Deripaska (see Kommersant of February 10, 2022). But last year the minority shareholders abandoned their claim. Now, according to SPARK, 78.49% of Trekhgornaya Manufactory PJSC belongs to Prioritet JSC, which is also associated with Mr. Deripaska.

The businessman’s structures have long had plans to buy the Rochdelskaya business center, since it is located next to Trekhgornaya Manufactory, where one of the main offices of Basic Element is located, said CMWP partner Konstantin Lebedev. Over time, other companies that are part of the businessman’s holding may be located in the Rochdelskaya office center, which will optimize many business processes, Denis Platov, director of the Nikoliers capital markets department, does not rule out.

Oleg Deripaska’s structures have not replenished their real estate portfolio for a long time. The long absence of active actions in the market could be caused by waiting for the optimal moment to invest, says Victoria Petrova, director of the department of financial markets and investments at NF Group. The purchase of the Rochdelskaya business center may be due to confidence in its potential for income, she adds. Ms. Petrova believes that 2.88 billion rubles is an “adequate amount” for the purchase of an object, given its area and location. True, Konstantin Lebedev admits, “the building is no longer fresh.”

Recently, investors and end users have been actively investing in office real estate. According to preliminary estimates by NF Group, in 2023 the volume of space sold in Moscow business centers doubled year-on-year, to 360 thousand square meters. m. Consultants explain this growth by the fact that in conditions of instability in the economy, “ownership of real estate seems to be a more reliable investment protection.”

Daria Andrianova