But I’ll post this wonderful piece of news in full. You could practically give it the headline, "THE STEADY RISE IN CITIZENS’ WELL-BEING IS THE MAIN ACHIEVEMENT OF VLADIMIR PUTIN AND HIS PARTY, UNITED RUSSIA," and print it as leaflets for DMP.
Officials and state company executives turned out to be the main buyers of estate-style homes The main buyers of luxury country real estate in the Moscow region built in the classical manor-house style are officials and executives of state-owned companies aged 40 to 60, according to a study by Soho Estate.Analysts note that owners of large and medium-sized businesses are much less drawn to the classical style. Overall, homes in estate-style developments account for about one-third of total demand for luxury country real estate. According to the review, estate-style development projects are concentrated mainly along the Novorizhskoye, Rublyovo-Uspenskoye, Kaluzhskoye, and Kievskoye highways, 10 to 24 kilometers (6 to 15 miles) from the MKAD (Moscow Ring Road). The houses are often located on riverbanks. In interior and exterior finishing, architects favor natural materials. Homes in this market segment can be as large as 1,900 square meters (about 20,450 square feet), while land plots range from 15 to 60 sotkas (0.15 to 0.6 hectares, or about 0.37 to 1.48 acres). In classical-style townhouse developments, the apartments are about 260-270 square meters (about 2,800-2,900 square feet), with plots of 3-4 sotkas (0.03 to 0.04 hectares, or about 0.07 to 0.1 acres). Among the most notable "classical" projects in the Moscow region, experts highlight "Blizhneye Pokrovskoye," "Idyllia," "Novakhovo - Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo," "Monolit Residences," Park Vill, and "Usadby Usovo." Property prices there range from $1.1 million to $9 million. In total, more than ten estate-style developments are currently represented on the luxury housing market. At the end of last year, Alexander Ziminsky, director of the urban real estate department at Penny Lane Realty, said that federal-level officials account for about 60 percent of purchases of Moscow housing priced at $2-3 million and above. He noted that they buy luxury real estate for various purposes (for living, investment, or as a gift) and usually register it in relatives’ names. http://realty.lenta.ru/news/2012/06/06/estate/