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"Elite" for the elite
More than half of elite housing is bought by officials. The prohibitive figure reflects what everyone has already guessed about - the level of corruption, to put it mildly, is high. However, shadow money must be invested. By logic, the means will soon begin to demand other forms of legalization. True, this cannot last forever.
Aloud, what many already guessed about. Officials amount to about 60 percent of buyers of Moscow housing worth 1.5-2 million dollars, said Alexander Ziminsky, director of the Elite Realty Elite Real Estate Sales Department. “Officials are the most beautiful clientele,” he said Ziminsky. According to him, officials are looking for directions where you can invest money and choose real estate. And housing, therefore, becomes an attractive object for the investment of sovereign people.
The statement may be too bold, but spectacular, because several reservations are required before moving on to reflection. Firstly, the statistics of even a large company specializing in the sale of elite housing are not a reliable market statistics.
Then: officials have families. The wife or husband is a businessman - for a large federal or regional official, it is far from uncommon. It is enough to recall that the wives of the first deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov (85 million rubles for 2010), assistant President Arkady Dvorkovich (41 million rubles) and the first deputy prime minister of the government Igor Shuvalov (372 million), according to official declarations, is significantly richer than husbands. Wives with this income level may well afford an apartment for two million dollars. And the husband and wife, as you know, are “one Satan”. And the apartment can be written on the husband.
However, further questions begin. Well, firstly, about the spouses: do they owe their successes in business the successes of their halves in the field of government? The answer, of course, everyone will give to his taste. Officials themselves. Of course, they will say that there is no dependence here, but the questions will remain. For there is still dependence - the wives are entered into the elite, including through husbands. Some influential businessmen may well allow, say, in order to enhance the influence of the general directory positions of the State Council spouses. With multimillion -dollar salaries.
Next: the remaining 40 percent of the Buyers of the "elite" - who are they? The answer is obvious: they are businessmen. Someone is a private trader, one of the state-owned companies. This is no longer important, it is important that there are few of them. It is clear that someone has no need to buy housing in the capital, in principle, someone already has it, someone has long been interests in the Thames area. Again, businessmen can guess that housing, even arbitrarily elite, is an extremely unprofitable way of investing. After all, we must hope that it will grow in price, it is difficult to turn it into money if the money is needed and in general - it is better to play in the stock market.
However, why only 40 percent? Where does such a skew where, albeit only at the moment. The answer may lie in those areas that are hidden from the views of the “general public”. For example, these “60 percent of officials” may confirm timid statements on the topic of unprecedented corruption in Russia. Shadow money must be legalized. The simplest way is to buy an expensive apartment. At least after a similar machine is bought. Then follows the house on the Rublevo-Uspensky Highway, there are two. And then you can buy a few more expensive apartments.
This, of course, is only the first stage of capital accumulation. Further, the arrangement ends and if the corruption rent continues to arrive, you will have to buy something more significant for the money. For example, its own business, which will inevitably begin to make a profit. Money will be exposed to money and it will have to be invested again. Buying real estate is a very possible option.
Are there any multimilliarders in Russia unknown to Forbes, from among police generals, prosecutors of the silt of workers, other security officials? Apparently, if not billionaires, then multimillionaires are in abundance. Only now, empty all this is awe - well, how do you verify the statements about the "billions of Putin"? The Prosecutor General’s Office is guaranteed to be powerless.
The question, however, is that sooner or later the money will be demanded if you can’t be published, then at least hesitate from various force majeure. But no one can guarantee this. Looking with which gyst, businessmen pressing the Luzhkovsky business with Sergey Sobyanin to Moscow, it becomes clear that all this is not for centuries. Money is drawn to power. But it is worth losing power - and what will happen to the property? Even the Prosecutor General’s Office will not give an answer today.