Luzhkov: “Prices will not rise further”

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov hopes that real estate prices will not rise in 2007. “I think that prices will not rise further. Did you notice that they stopped at the same time that oil prices stopped? This is not happening by chance, since oil prices these days are largely the regulator of supply and demand,” he said in an interview. ” Rossiyskaya Gazeta " . - If there is less money, then prices moderate their ardor. Everything is connected to each other."

“In addition, mortgages played a role, which in Moscow has tripled this year. But this, by the way, is precisely the very housing for Muscovites that the Moscow government has a headache about in the first place. No one is interested in mortgages We don’t accept outsiders,” the mayor also said. The volume of housing built under city orders has also increased compared to that built for commercial purposes. “This is also a sure sign that the construction of housing for our own people is increasing,” Luzhkov emphasized.

It is too early to talk about the mass demolition of nine-story buildings, the mayor indicated, speaking about “cleansing” the city territory for new projects. “The only exceptions can be cases when one or two houses end up in a development zone and prevent it from being carried out comprehensively. As was once the case at Taganka in Moscow. But this requires a separate decision,” he pointed out.