Investments in housing in Russia in 2021 reached a share of 67% of all investments in real estate, while in 2019 the figure was only 22%. This was reported to Izvestia by analysts of the IT-company Realiste on Thursday, December 16.
According to them, investment in housing in Russia has tripled in two years. By the end of 2021, the total investment in all types of real estate could reach 390 billion rubles, a record figure, the company added.
The total investment is almost 30% higher than the previous record and, what is remarkable, such figures in the conditions of a pandemic and remoteness are achieved precisely thanks to assets in housing, said the founder of Realiste Alexei Galtsev.
“Investing in real estate has always been an important tool for investors. However, in the dock era, office real estate and retail premises were of greater interest to large investors, ”he said.
For example, in 2016, 44% of all investments in real estate were offices, another 17% – commercial retail space and only 10% – housing, he said.
Another leader among investment instruments in real estate is retail. Premises for retail outlets, especially in places with good traffic, have traditionally been a profitable investment, Galtsev said.
According to him, from 2017 to 2019, such commercial meters occupied about 30% in the structure of all investments in real estate. In 2020, due to the coronavirus, most shopping centers were closed, retail went online, and the amount of investment in retail premises decreased to 8%.
In early November, the president of the self-regulatory organization Regional Association of Appraisers (SRO RAO), co-founder of the Center for Independent Expertise of Property Kirill Kulakov told Izvestia that the volume of investments in retail real estate from the b2c segment in 2021 decreased by more than 15%. He noted that the investment attractiveness of small and medium-sized businesses, traditional for investments, is steadily decreasing and the next break in the work of b2c enterprises will only strengthen this trend. The expert expressed the opinion that these areas have become high-risk for investment.
Source: IZ
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