Russian real estate market gets rid of the signs of an unhealthy speculative frenzy and calm returns to the conservative image of what it should be. This is the opinion of experts of the analytical center "Indicators of the real estate market."
The growth potential in the medium term
Recovery in demand is the fastest in the real estate sector. In terms of growth potential in the medium term it is the most profitable investment.
interview Saydama Salaheddin, Managing Director, Investment Banking Sector Property Credit Suisse:
 - The main focus for investors today - residential real estate. If you look at the real estate market of any country after any crisis, the first section, which rises - is housing. Always. And the reason is that housing more liquidity. This is a million dollars, half a million dollars, two million dollars. Shopping centers - is 300-500 million dollars. When the economy begins to recover, everyone wants to buy a new home. Over the last six months of 2010. you can see in Russia, that housing prices began to rise - by about 10%. In Russia, millions of people need a new home, they expect that prices will drop when they realize that prices have fallen, they buy. Now we see that people are buying. If you look at the CIP or LSR, to "Standard" in St. Petersburg, if you look at the good housing developers, they are selling now, this year, much higher than last year. Much ...
Conservative and low risk
Real estate is an interesting tool and low-risk long-term investment. In the May survey of public opinion (see: "Public opinion: The real estate save money"), the magazine Metrinfo.Ru, on the question whether the benefit is now to invest in real estate, 56% responded positively. As noted in this review, which could threaten the purchased finished apartment? "In addition to fire, earthquake, meteorite, we can say and do ...."
The main value of real estate as an investment instrument that she nizkoriskovanna (for example, compared with the stock market). But at the same time, unlike, say, precious metals or works of art, it can only go up in price, but also generate significant income from the lease.
Therefore, in terms of long-term, so-called "retirement investment" real estate has been and remains a very important tool. Unlike in the past four or five years, now we can not expect that by buying an apartment it could be six months to sell at double the price. But if a person poses a different problem: to get stable and not strongly affected by collisions source of income for the future (albeit not very high), then, along with bank deposit, real estate - this is a classic tool of long-term investment.
Specialists of the analytical center "Indicators of the real estate market," noted as an important opportunity for diversification of the instrument in terms of investment. Of course, this is not a bank deposit, where you can invest the sum of only 1000 or 10 000 rubles. However, the lowest price "admission ticket" to this market is still not so great - it cost a typical "unity", which can immediately lease. And having a larger sum, you can ask not only luxury apartments, and commercial real estate - a separate room for a shop or restaurant, or even an office building or shopping mall.
In the crisis of long-term investors became even more than before, says the head of the Analytical Center "Indicators of the real estate market," Oleg Repchenko. If you have previously dominated the market speculative investors, now, many decide to create for itself a solid foundation for the future. "Many see that no more previous income or the previous features, - he said. - They plan to retire, roughly speaking, the "take profit" and create a stable source of income. Someone have the opportunity to go out of business with a million dollars, someone - a ten, etc. Need not require much attention the sources of monthly income for a quiet life. "
Real Estate - one of the most risk-free instruments for investments, experts think tank www.irn.ru. In the end, even if the tenants move out or insist that pay at a rate that does not mean the end of the world. It suffices to compare the current yield mutual funds (in some it has fallen by 3-4 times) with the pre-crisis levels and the corresponding income from rental housing to rent: minus 20-30% in rubles. Incomes have not stopped, they just dropped, and most likely temporary.