Dmitry Ananyev's PSN group is negotiating the sale of a 10,000 sq. m luxury residential complex project. m in Maly Levshinsky Lane in Khamovniki, said two consultants working in the area. According to them, the main contender for this property is company A Project Development (APD), created for investment in premium real estate by brothers Arkady and Konstantin Akimov. The latter is a former vice president of Sberbank, ex-top manager of Basic Element and developer Barkli.

APD’s portfolio currently includes two projects – the Noble Row residential complexes on Ostozhenka, which the company calls “the first ultra-luxury complex in Russia,” and Cheval Court on Konyushennaya Square in St. Petersburg. Three consultants who worked with the parties call APD a long-time partner of the Ananyevs. APD acquired the building on Konyushennaya Square in 2017 from the structures of Promsvyazbank, the Delovoy Petersburg newspaper wrote. A representative of PSN confirmed the fact of negotiations with APD on the complex in Khamovniki. A request to APD went unanswered.

The second contender for the project is the luxury real estate developer Vesper of Boris Azarenko and Denis Kitaev, Vedomosti’s interlocutors say and a person close to the company confirms. Vesper, according to its representative, “is considering several projects in the deluxe segment and plans to close two transactions by the end of 2018.

PSN wants to gain 2 billion rubles from the sale of the complex in Khamovniki, two consultants who worked with the project know. Based on the cost of apartments in such a facility in the amount of $15,000–25,000 per 1 sq. m and construction costs of $2000–2500 per square meter excluding finishing, an attractive price for investors is 0.8–1.4 billion rubles, estimated Alexey Sidorov, director of development of the city department of Point Estate.

The owner of PSN, Dmitry Ananyev, after the loss of Promsvyazbank, is getting rid of assets in Russia, sources close to the businessman previously said. Among the assets, according to Vedomosti’s interlocutors, is the PSN group, whose portfolio is 3 million sq. m. m. The PSN representative denied this. He explained the appearance of “such rumors” by the fact that the group’s strategy was to abandon non-core assets. APD approached PSN with a proposal for the complex in Khamovniki back in September 2017, says a group representative, while the temporary administration at Promsvyazbank was introduced only in December 2017.

Previously, the developer announced plans to sell another luxury project - the I'm Tverskaya apartment center.

Dmitry Ananyev's PSN is selling an elite complex in Khamovniki