The regions of Western Ukraine became the leader in terms of agricultural land prices in the summer of 2023, according to the data of the Opendatabot service.
According to the infographics of the resource, in June of this year, the most expensive agricultural land was in Lviv (139.4 thousand UAH/ha), Ivano-Frankivsk (84.391 thousand UAH/ha) and Kyiv (61.611 thousand UAH/ha) regions. The minimum price was recorded in Kharkiv region – 26.3 thousand UAH/ha.
In July, the leading regions in terms of land prices were Rivne (144.2 thousand UAH/ha), Ivano-Frankivsk (140.9 thousand UAH/ha) and Lviv (103.647 thousand UAH/ha) regions. During this period, the cheapest land was bought in Donetsk region – 19.08 thousand UAH/ha.
Ivano-Frankivsk region was the leader in terms of the cost of agricultural land in August, although prices were lower – 111.5 thousand UAH/ha. Lviv (91.987 thousand UAH/ha) and Khmelnytsky (53.019 thousand UAH/ha) regions were in the TOP-3. Zaporizhzhia region became the anti-leader in the last month of summer – 26.57 thousand UAH/ha.
The average cost of agricultural land in Ukraine in June amounted to 39.86 thousand UAH/ha, in July – 44.9 thousand UAH/ha, in August – 39.85 thousand UAH/ha.
At the same time, the area of land sold during the summer decreased from 14.9 thou hectares in June to 13.4 thou hectares in July and 10.45 thou hectares in August.
According to the report, the average cost per hectare for the entire period of work on the land market is about 37 thousand UAH/ha. In the first month after the resumption of work in May 2022, prices reached 43 thousand UAH/ha.
As reported, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), with the support of the USAID AGRO Program, is conducting a study of the land market in Ukraine. During the last analysis, analysts identified two systemic problems: the low level of price registration in the State Register of Rights and the underestimation of land prices during transactions.
“Since the beginning of 2023, the share of transactions with a registered price has amounted to only 18.8% of all sales transactions, while in 2022 this figure was 34.4%, and in 2021 – 55.0%. At the same time, in 60% of cases where the price of the land plot was indicated, it was at the lowest possible level, i.e. at the level of the normative monetary value (NMV). The ratio between purchase and sale prices and lease prices at electronic land auctions at 1:4.5 indicates that the registered prices of purchase and sale transactions are twice lower than the market prices,” the study says.
Source: https://opendatabot.ua/open/land
