23 октября 200707:55
Ural Chamber of Real Estate says housing prices to go up next year
«The average price of one square meter of housing has been more or less stable since March 2007 and it now comes to round about 65,500 RUR», Ural Chamber of Real Estate CEO Rustem Galeev said to UrBC. «Last year, the actual price of a transaction tended to be higher than the supply price, just because there were so many people willing to buy a home. The seller could afford to raise the price and even have an auction of some sort. Right now things have gone the other way around: a customer could easily get a 5% to 10% discount if they like», Mr. Galeev said. «Things will probably stay like