Which and how building today, housing in Ukraine

Last year in Ukraine built and put into operation a record number of units – 126 610. This amount of housing in Ukraine is not built since 1990-is. In the early 2000s in Ukraine, were commissioned in 60-70 thousand apartments a year. "Pre-war" of 2013 were 93 thousand And then thousand 105, 120, 113, 126 thousand...

Every second put into operation the apartment is located in Kiev or Kiev region. If the total housing Fund of Ukraine over the past year has added 125 610 apartments, the share of the capital and the region accounts for 51 283 apartments (28 and 23 093 190, respectively). Other regions not even close to getting to it. So, in all Odessa region, which is in third place, commissioned in only 11 of the 340 apartments in Lviv (4th place) – 10 481 apartment.

Small-sized housing again "into fashion"?

But the average area of apartments reduced every year. So, if in 2010 the average square footage of the apartment, which was built in Ukraine, was 118,9 sq. m in 2016 have already been 87,2 sq. m, and in 2017 reduced to 78.6 sq. m. And, judging by the proposals of developers, a significant contribution to the gradual transformation of apartments in the "birdhouses" is making the capital. As the construction site of the largest number of housing, and as a region where you can buy the tiny flats.

It is not surprising that in 2017 Kyiv ranked last in the country in an area of new apartments. The average area of a Metropolitan apartment, built in 2017, is 60.8 sq m – almost a quarter less than in the whole country. However, among the cities of the capital took the second place from the end: "first" came to Odessa with apartments with an average area of 60.1 sq. m. However, the footage in the whole region turned out to be more Kiev – 63,5 sq. m.

The most spacious flats and houses, according to Ukrstat, building in Donetsk (148,1 sq. m) and in Transcarpathia (146,7 sqm). However, throughout the Donetsk region over the past year put into operation only 273 apartments. In addition, more than 100 "squares" were the average apartment in Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Luhansk, Volyn and Kirovohrad regions, where traditionally built much housing that is also included in the statistics. But the regions where there are large cities with multi-storey buildings (Kharkiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk region, and the like) were in the "tail" of the rating of spacious apartments.

Smart apartments are competing with each other for the narrowness and cheapness

Despite this active construction of apartments, an index of availability of housing in Ukraine continues to be unsatisfactory. If in Europe per capita has about 40 sq m of living space, in Ukraine – 23,8 sq. m. Moreover, according to experts, the growth is observed mainly due to the reduction of the population.
Simultaneously a lot of apartments in new buildings are unoccupied for many years, and experts believe that the chances to find a host of them a little, at least in the next few years. The reason is obvious: people's income is now low, their only enough for Essentials.

The amount that the Ukrainians are investing in the purchase of apartments in the primary market (invest in housing), do not grow in spite of inflation and increase in wages. According to Ukrstat, 2015 Ukraine's population to the joint efforts invested in the construction of apartments for a total amount of 30 billion 283 million, which represented 12% of all investment money in the economy of Ukraine. From 2016, the amount fell to 29.1 billion, or 8.9 percent. In 2017, the amount was increased to UAH 32.3 billion, but in percentage dropped to 7.8%.

Experts say: sales of apartments of 2017 continued to decline. This trend has spurred the rate hike by the national Bank that made attractive to people Bank loans and caused the outflow of private investment from housing.

To revive sales, developers are trying to reduce the price of their goods. Earlier in the present buildings were 1-, 2-, 3-bedroom and large apartments, while today, according to experts, more than 40% of houses under construction – only one. In addition, the builders try to save by reducing the area of apartments and thus reducing their cost. In the 2000s, the majority of apartments under construction was more spacious than the "Khrushchev" and " dormitory of the Soviet type, but in recent years, the market increasingly offers just tiny apartments. They are served as "smart apartments" (in the sense of compact, planned wisely), but in fact neither of what modern housing standards, in respect of such apartments is not. But the prices are not so frightening, as to the standard of the apartment.

In the village of Petropavlovskaya Borschagovka, for example, now sells one of small apartments in just 11.5 million dollars. The area of each is 25 sq. m. in the Kiev district of Kharkiv highway under construction high-rise building posed as a "luxury building", despite the fact that the area of one apartment here is only 15 "squares." 10 sq m residential, 4 m – kitchen, and all support facilities 1 remains "square". The price of this mcrocklin – 17 thousand dollars.

The Ministry of regional development has reduced the regulatory cost per square meter

In the December "financial stability Report", the NBU stated that the housing prices continue to fall, and is approached critically low levels. Some developers are already selling square footage almost at cost, calculated at the national Bank.

Last year the maximum indirect cost of housing (cost), which establishes the Ministry of regional development, amounted to UAH 128 12. For 2018, the numbers were increased to 10 581-14 340 UAH/sq. m (including VAT), depending on the region. The high cost of construction, according minregionstroya, in Kiev. The lowest – in the Transcarpathian region.Translated into dollars is $ 407-552. per sq. m. at the current rate, or 265-495 dollars. at the projected average annual rate inherent in the state budget.

However, from 1 March minregionstroya adjusted indirect cost of construction. According to the new order of the relevant agencies, 2018 indirect cost of construction is 9500-13 047 UAH per sq. m. the Most expensive region in terms of construction left Kiev, but now the cost per square meter "cheaper" by almost 10% – from 14 340 047 to 13 UAH/sq. m. And the cheapest region cost per square meter was the Kirovograd region (UAH 9 500).

If you compare the price of mcroyal with mnregs, it can be concluded that building close flats developers are still profitable. So, the price for Kiev translated into dollars at the current rate is $ 502. per sq. m. multiplied by the area of 15-square meter apartment on Kharkiv highway, which was written above, we get that the cost of its construction only 7 $ 530. When the selling price of 17 thousand.
The cost of construction of the apartment on Borshchagovka, which was also cited as an example of higher – 10 $ 725 (for the cost of the Kiev region, according to estimates minregionstroya, is 11 149 UAH. or $ 429). So its sale price is 11.5 million dollars. – already really close to the indirect cost of housing according to the calculations of the Ministry of regional development.

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