Except for Moscow and the Moscow region
The general trend towards more expensive rental housing has intensified. At the beginning of June, the price of renting rooms in 70 cities of the country with a population of more than 300 thousand people increased. The exceptions were two large regions — Moscow and the Moscow region. What is happening in the national rental housing market?
Currently, the most expensive rooms in the country are currently rented in Sochi — they cost an average of 21,691 rubles/month. and exceed the prices in Moscow (RUB 17,834/month). Which is not surprising, given the holiday season. “In winter, the situation was the other way around, but by the summer season, housing rentals in the main resort capital of the country had risen sharply, as happens every year,” — explained General Director of the federal portal «World of Apartments» Pavel Lutsenko.
According to him, «bite» rented rooms also in northern cities — Yakutsk (16,754 rubles/month), Khabarovsk (15,153 rubles/month), Surgut (14,896 rubles/month). They are followed by the Moscow region (14,297 rubles/month), St. Petersburg (13,983 rubles/month), Murmansk (13,139 rubles/month), Yekaterinburg (12,709 rubles/month) and Kazan (RUB 12,670/month).
The most affordable rooms can be found in Penza; here they are three and a half times cheaper than Sochi ones – 6142 rub./month. Inexpensive offers are also in Magnitogorsk (6214 rubles/month), Kirov (6333 rubles/month), Saransk (6520 rubles/month), Bryansk (6813 rubles/month), Nizhny Tagil (6950 rubles/month). /month), Ulyanovsk (7047 rubles/month), Kursk (7105 rubles/month), Kurgan (7388 rubles/month) and Saratov (7685 rubles/month). In general, the average room in a large Russian city costs 10,045 rubles/month.
Unpleasant trends for tenants began to emerge at the beginning of this year. Since January, room rental rates have risen in 52 cities out of the 70 studied, in 18 — decreased. The largest growth occurred in Sochi (+35.3%), Vologda (+19.9%), Volgograd (+19.2%), Murmansk (+18.9%), Chelyabinsk (+18.6%), Tolyatti (+18.4%), Ivanovo (+17.7%), Nizhny Novgorod (+15.7%), Tula (+15.3%) and Tomsk (+14.9%).
< p>Negative dynamics were demonstrated, first of all, by Magnitogorsk (-15.8%), Cherepovets (-15.2%), Kirov (-14.4%), Smolensk (-13.7%), Kemerovo (-10.4%), Novokuznetsk (-6.9%), Moscow Region (-5.9%), Kursk (-5.5%), Yakutsk (-3.8%) and Belgorod (-3.7%). Moscow also remained slightly in the minus (-1.3%), and St. Petersburg, on the contrary, slightly increased in price (+1.1%). On average, rented rooms have increased in price by 6% across all cities.
«As prices in the apartment rental segment grow, so do the rates for rooms, as those tenants who are unable to pay for full-fledged housing move into rooms or start renting apartments together with someone else,» Lutsenko noted. According to him, demand in this segment is growing in many cities, while supply in the country as a whole has decreased by 9% since January. However, this does not apply to the capital region: there, tenants prefer an apartment, albeit small, but their own, without neighbors. In Moscow and the region, rental rates for rooms have even fallen slightly, while supply has grown by 15% and 19%, respectively.