At the same time, the following picture is observed in the region: the greater the distance from Yekaterinburg, the fewer new houses are being built.
— This year it is expected that about 2 million square meters of housing will be commissioned in the region as a whole, and next year these figures will be even higher. The problem is that the greater the distance from Yekaterinburg, the smaller volumes are observed in construction, — said Dmitry Niskovskikh, Advisor to the Chairman in the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region. — For example, in Nizhny Tagil, which has a population of more than 200,000 inhabitants, only 100,000 square meters are being built this year. A similar number will be put into operation in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, whose population is much smaller.
Although there are also problems in the regional center that can interfere with the implementation of these ambitious plans. Now 20 percent of the territory in the city is occupied by the private sector. If we were to build up these open spaces with high-rise buildings and resettle residents from old houses. But due to the introduction of the new Urban Planning Code, now the procedure for buying land depends entirely on the desire of its owners.
— Imagine the situation, a developer comes to the owner of an individual house with a small plot and tells him: “We are ready to buy real estate from you”. And the owner answers him: “I want two million euros for her, well, a house in Cannes”. The figures are sometimes called so fantastic that the developer simply does not have any opportunity to buy the land. Today, the only mechanism when the developer has the opportunity to sue with the purchase of a plot at a price that is set by an independent appraiser is land auctions intended for the development of built-up areas. Only the requirements for sites that are put up for such auctions are very peculiar — at least one, but an apartment building, must be built on such a site. And this only limits the development of this mechanism. To date, only two such auctions have taken place in Yekaterinburg,” says Vyacheslav Trapeznikov, executive director at the NP SRO “Guild of Builders of the Urals”.
Only plots that do not have encumbrances can be put up for a simple auction, and in Yekaterinburg there are less and less such plots every year.
