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In Ukraine 4 times increased demand for rental of country houses with generators

Demand in the Ukrainian countryside real estate market has increased significantly in autumn 2022, most actively looking for houses with a generator, basement and own well, follows from the analytics of the portal “OLX Real Estate”.
“Ukrainians this fall were more interested in renting suburban real estate than last year. Thus peak of inquiries coincided with the large-scale bombardment of infrastructure on October 10 and 17 (38 thousand and 37 thousand inquiries respectively), and also with the statements about the possible blackout on October 31 (32 thousand). Overall, interest in out-of-town rentals in mid-November 2022 was three times higher than in November 2021,” the portal reported.
The most popular regions for the rent of a country house were Zakarpattya, Chernigov and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. At the same time the most number of variants are offered in Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa regions.
More than half of the houses for rent are located within the city limits (54%), up to 15 km from the city – 39% of ads, 20-50 km – 8%.
The most popular offers of country houses on site OLX are brick houses (77% of ads), insulated with mineral wool (52%) with individual gas heating (57%).
According to OLX, the number of ads with the proposal to rent a country house with a generator during the fall has increased six-fold – up to 1177. There are 3,034 ads with homes with a well, with a basement – 441, and their number in November decreased by 12% compared to September.
Meanwhile, demand for homes with a generator quadrupled in the fall to 10 potential renters per listing.
According to OLX, the average cost of renting a house with a generator in the Kiev region is 80.4 thousand UAH per month, in Odessa – 43.8 thousand UAH per month, Dnipropetrovsk – 35.9 thousand UAH per month, Ivano-Frankivsk – 32.9 thousand UAH per month, Transcarpathian – 26 thousand UAH per month. The cheapest house with a generator is in Lviv region – on average for 25 thousand UAH/month.
Houses with a basement are from 21.9 thousand UAH/month in Ivano-Frankovsk region to 58.5 thousand UAH/month in Transcarpathian region, houses with a well – from 8 thousand UAH/month in Odessa region to 45 thousand UAH/month in the Kiev region.

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