"Attracts the uniqueness and historical value of objects"
Svetlana Bardina - about apartments in Stalinist skyscrapers. Svetlana Bardina, a columnist for Kommersant FM, talks about the prices for renting and buying real estate on Krasnye Vorota Square, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment and Kudrinskaya Square.
Apartments in the famous Stalinist skyscrapers are always popular and in demand on the market. Tenants and buyers, especially foreign ones, are attracted by the uniqueness and historical value of the properties in which they are located. Such proposals relate to the city's high-budget real estate market. But their number is very limited.
Today, apartments are presented in four of the seven Stalinist skyscrapers: in the residential part of the building, which was previously called the Ukraine Hotel, in facilities on Krasnye Vorota Square and Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, as well as on Kudrinskaya Square.
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They offer 40 lots for rent. 23 of them are in Kotelniki. And this is only 3% of all apartments in Stalinist skyscrapers. Another 46 or 4% are for sale.
The average rental rate for an apartment in Stalin's “sisters” is about 160 thousand rubles. per month. And this with a range of rates from 54 thousand for an apartment of 50 sq. M. up to almost 4 million rubles. per month for a spacious 280-meter lot. The most popular apartments are located in two Stalinist skyscrapers - on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment and on Kudrinskaya Square. Brokers are seeing constant increased demand here.
According to Savills, the most popular rental rate for an apartment in a skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment is 110,000 rubles. per month with a lot area of about 70 sq.m. The maximum transaction budget in this house reached 600 thousand rubles. per month. In a skyscraper on Kudrinskaya Square, rental rates for housing ranging from 67 to 78 square meters range from 80 thousand to 120 thousand rubles. per month.