The highest concentration of studios is in St. It was in residential areas of St. Petersburg and Moscow 05:00

Murino lives up to its reputation for new buildings full of small apartments. Studios hold 35.3% of local storefronts, a national record. This is shown by a study by Urban Prize experts, the results of which were reviewed by socialbites.ca.

The research sample covers cities with more than a million people and other cities with an exhibition volume of 2 thousand or more (39 locations in total). The top twenty of the rating includes markets filled with small lots by at least 7.9%. It is noteworthy that seven of the top 20 places include the closest suburbs along with the capital cities. This is due to both demographic and socio-economic factors.

The city of Sertolovo, not far from Murino, shows half this rate: 16.5%. But this is still a lot – seventh place in Russia. St. In St. Petersburg projects, the content of the studios is kept slightly below the 30% level. According to Urban analysts, about a quarter of all Russian reserves of such housing are located in St. It is concentrated within the borders of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. The same number is exhibited in complexes in the Moscow region. In Moscow, studios account for 14.8% of the total supply. According to this indicator, the capital lags behind its three suburbs: Mytishchi (21.7%), Khimki (20.7%) and Balashikha (15.0%).

As the head of the City Prize Olga Khasanova noted, such results are not an anomaly, but a pattern based on the demographic structure and the characteristics of the income-price balance.

“Moscow and St. Petersburg regions occupy a leading position in the Russian Federation in terms of internal migrant flows. Those who want to settle for a relatively long time need cheap housing and studios in modern conditions. Developers in both megacities know that the consumer base is forced to save on the size of the apartments they buy. “And studios are, in theory, products that absolutely should be owned by the interests that need to pay the most,” he said.

Also, according to him, Moscow, St. It is necessary to take into account that St. Petersburg and the surrounding regions have a low birth rate. The proportion of urban residents who do not consider having children is twice the national average. For such people, a small space is not a problem. They actually need an apartment where they can spend the night and store their belongings. In other words, in metropolises, the ratio of both those who consciously choose to live in studios and those who have no other option reaches its maximum.”

In general, the abundance of studios is a reality of large markets (with a supply volume of 10 thousand lots). Thus, 16.2% are represented in Yekaterinburg, 16.1% in Rostov-on-Don, 14.0% in Novosibirsk, 13.6% in Krasnodar, 12.4% in Tyumen. It should be noted that Ural developers are showing increased activity in promoting studios. This applies not only to the mentioned Yekaterinburg market, but also to Chelyabinsk (24.3%), Ufa (11.2%), Izhevsk (10.0%) and Perm (9.7%). In contrast, only two cities on the Volga made it into the top 20: Astrakhan (14.3%) and Nizhny Novgorod (7.9%). Traditionally, studios make up a significant part of the supply on the Black Sea coast – in Sochi (16.8%) and Anapa (12.1%). They act as an analogue to hotel rooms in the context of resort real estate.

Based on the results of the research, Urban experts identified a fairly large group of cities where studios make up 4% to 7% of the exhibition. They include Volgograd, Novorossiysk, Ulyanovsk, Tula, Voronezh, Samara, Lipetsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. In the markets of Yaroslavl, Omsk, Ryazan, Surgut, Penza, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk and Stavropol, the share of small-format supply does not exceed 1.0-2.5%.

“In the medium term, the share of studios in Russia’s largest clusters will increase, as the socio-economic situation is not conducive to the growth of household incomes, and developers will have to compensate for increased costs. It seems that the atomization of society will continue to increase. So studios with a fairly comfortable broadcast will also receive an additional increase in demand,” Khasanova summarized.

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