Analysts presented incredible facts on the purchase of apartments, examining the May results
Analysts summed up the results of May in the primary market of the economy segment of Moscow. The volume of supply for the month decreased by 2.2%. The average price per square meter was 346 thousand rubles (plus 3.8% per month, plus 5.4% over six months, plus 22.5% per year). But the most interesting thing is the change in cost depending on the number of rooms in the apartments.
Unbelievable but true. “Meter” in two-room apartments is now often cheaper than in “three rubles”. This is a new trend in sales. Even schoolchildren know that wholesale always costs less than goods in the store. But not on the housing market.
Here are the specific figures cited by Metrium experts.
The minimum cost in May of a square meter in a Moscow studio is 209 thousand rubles, in a one-room apartment — 176 thousand. in a “kopeck piece” — 169 thousand, in a “three ruble” — 175 thousand, that is, a “square” in an apartment with a larger area of the same mass segment costs 6 thousand rubles more than in a “kopeck piece”. Nonsense. This hasn't happened for many years.
Another interesting fact, but more predictable, is transactions with apartments with an area of less than 28 square meters. A couple of years ago, Shuvalov was amused by the fact that people were buying apartments with an area of “even 20 square meters.” He would probably have torn his stomach to know that in the last two years, housing half the size has become wildly popular in the country. And even then, as a rule, it was taken out on a mortgage because of the exorbitant price.
Well, now the country’s high leadership has finally decided that people should not live in such “huts” and has banned their design and construction. True, not every senior official understands that a small number of Russians can afford housing of even the minimum area.
And then suddenly they started talking that by 2030, the per capita of a Russian should not be less than 33 square meters . That's all — the officials took it in stride and quickly banned the construction of small boats smaller than 28 meters. However, people ran to buy them while they were still available.
— After the announcement of the restriction on the design of residential apartments of less than 28 square meters in May, the volume of demand in the mass segment for apartments of this format increased by 19.4 %,” says the company’s managing director Ruslan Syrtsov. — Apartments less than 28 square meters increased in price by 8.9 percent over the month. At the end of May, the average offer price was 437 thousand rubles per square meter. In June, it is realistic to expect the level of demand to be no lower than in May, due to the relatively high share of transactions with small apartments.