The volume of investments in real estate in Kyiv amounted to the equivalent of $30.7 million in May 2021, which is 12% more than in April of the same year, Director of Blagovist Real Estate Agency (Kyiv) Olena Biberova told Interfax-Ukraine.
“The market for the sale and purchase of real estate in Kyiv continues to demonstrate activity. Supply and demand are balanced. At the same time, the new supply that appears on the market is more expensive [by 10-15%] than similar properties that were put up for sale earlier,” she said.
According to Biberova, the most affordable option purchased in May was a one-room apartment of 28 square meters on Novhorodska Street (Solomiansky district), which was bought for $25,000. The most expensive property sold in May was a house with an area of 610 square meters in Lisnyky village (Kyiv-Sviatoshynsky district) purchased for $1 million.
According to the real estate agency, the segment up to $50,000 in May took 14% of the total number of transactions. These were mainly deals with one-, two-room apartments. For example, a one-room apartment of 32 square meters on Bastionna Street (Pechersky district) was bought for $45,000 and a one-room apartment with an area of 41 square meters on Radchenka Street (Solomiansky district) – for $50,000. House with an area of 60 square meters and with a land plot of 21 acres in Vytachiv village (Obukhiv district) was bought for $42,000.
In the segment from $50,000 to $100,000, some 45% of transactions were carried out. It is dominated by two, three-room apartments in Solomiansky, Podilsky, Darnytsky districts of Kyiv in new buildings (residential complexes Quartet, Fayna Town, etc.).
On Hnata Yury Street (Sviatoshynsky district) a two-room apartment with an area of 53 square meters was bought for $52,000, on Academician Williams Street (Holosiyivsky district, residential complex Liko-Hrad) a one-room apartment with an area of 46 square meters was bought for $70,000; and on Kudriashova Street (Solomiansky district) a one-room apartment with an area of 46 square meters was bought for $100,000.
According to Biberova, the price category from $100,000 to $250,000 in May was 35%. The favorites in this category were objects in new houses in Holosiyivsky and Pechersky districts. For example, a one-room apartment with an area of 45 square meters was sold for $102,000 on Bulvarno-Kudriavska Street (Shevchenkivsky district, residential complex Yaroslaviv Hrad), a two-room apartment with an area of 70 square meters on Yevhena Konovaltsia Street (Pechersky district) was sold for $182,000, and a three-room apartment with an area of 110 square meters on Yevhena Konovaltsia Street (Pechersky district) was sold for $245,000. House with an area of 250 square meters in Hatne village (Kyiv-Sviatoshynsky district) was bought for $160,000.
The price category from $250,000 in May is represented by 6% of the total volume of transactions. On Panasa Myrnoho Street (Pechersky district) a five-room apartment with an area of 180 square meters was bought for $262,000. A four-room apartment with an area of 190 square meters on Heroes of Stalingrad Street (Obolonsky district) was bought for $310,000. Non-residential premises with an area of 84 square meters on Mykhaila Drahomyrova Street (Pechersky district) were bought for $775,000.
Blagovist Real Estate Agency, part of the First Realty Group corporation, was established in 1993.
Today, there are eight agency offices in Kyiv, with which about 500 professional real estate consultants cooperate.
CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, REAL ESTATE
