Sevastopol is awaiting renovation based on the experience of Moscow and St. Petersburg
In recent years, most of the apartments in new buildings in Sevastopol have been purchased by visitors “from the mainland.” The population is growing, but the city has nowhere to expand.
Grigory Donets, head of the public organization for the preservation of cultural heritage sites “Sea Fort”, stated this on ForPost, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In 2018, in his annual report, the governor of Sevastopol announced that over 70% of our housing is bought by people from the mainland, and not by Sevastopol residents... I, as a consumer, as a resident, have a question - who are we building for? The area of Sevastopol, officially approved, is 1080 square kilometers. And we won’t have another square meter. The borders have been agreed upon between Sevastopol and Crimea. And on these 1080 square kilometers we are building construction for whom?” - Donets said.
However, the head of one of the Sevastopol real estate agencies, Natalya Massalskaya, denied his data.
“As for the statistics on the percentage of buyers from the mainland and locals, I have different information for the last six months. Not 70%, as was calculated last year, but 56% of our buyers in the primary and secondary markets are residents of Sevastopol and Crimea who use mortgage and maternity capital programs,” she said.
Housing development expert Yulia Smirnova assured that Sevastopol has opportunities for population growth, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If we talk about what will happen next, what will happen next will be what is happening now in many regions of the Russian Federation that are already developed. This is St. Petersburg, Moscow. Next will be the demolition of dilapidated, unsafe buildings and the development of these areas. But not the development of objects that are under special supervision and status regarding the use of cultural heritage.
Urban planning policy in the Russian Federation is very regulated. It's very tightly regulated. Enter some specially protected zone, if construction is prohibited there, if it is the so-called “zero zone” where construction is prohibited, it will not be built there.
If we are talking about the logical development of a primary real estate developer, it is the demolition of the old and the construction of a new one in its place,” added Smirnova.
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