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According to our latest data, new office delivery in Russian regions is the same as in 2017. 68,000 sq m of quality office supply will appear in Russian regions in 2018 which is almost 5 times lower than in 2012 when the maximum supply was recorded.
Yekaterinburg heads the list of cities with the population of over 1 mln people in terms of quality office supply. The total quality office stock there is 495,000 sq m. Novosibirsk with 275,000 sq m and Rostov-on-Don with 182,000 sq.m are following the leader.The lowest stock in Russian regions is in Kazan with 96,000 sq m, Volgograd with 95,000 sq m and in Perm with 93,000 sq m.
Total office stock in these cities is limited to 2.2 mn sq m, which is comparable to the volume of quality supply in St. Petersburg, but 6.9 times less than the quality office stock in Moscow.
The largest volume of new construction is located in Yekaterinburg (up to 86,000 sq m), Novosibirsk (up to 29,000 sq m) and Perm (up to 17,000 sq m). Also there are business centres under construction in Kazan, Volgograd and Voronezh. At the same time there are no office projects under construction in Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Ufa.
Against the background of low completions volume in Yekaterinburg, the vacancy rate declined by 2 p.p. and amounted to 5%. Also, a decrease in the vacancy rate by 1 p.p. occurred in Nizhniy Novgorod and Kazan with 2.3% and 6.3% accordingly. This influenced rental rates growth.
Average rental rate in Yekaterinburg grew 12% to 1,146 RUB sq m/month.
Weighted average rental rate varies from 764 to 1,486 RUB/sq m/month* for Class A premises and from 567 to 1,006 RUB/sq m/month for Class B premises.
Largest Changes in average rental rate
(In RUB sq.m/ month; as of the end of H1 2018, compared to Q4 2017)
Top 3 Increases
Rank |
Market |
Rental rate |
% Change |
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1 |
Nizhniy Novgorod |
819 |
10 |
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2 |
Krasnoyarsk |
996 |
6 |
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3 |
Novosibirsk/ Chelyabinsk |
908/816 |
4 |
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Top 3 Decreases
Rank |
Market |
Rental rate |
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% Change |
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1 |
Ufa |
1,005 |
|
6 |
2 |
Kazan |
845 |
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5 |
3 |
Volgograd/ Rostov-on-Don. |
695/944 |
|
4 |
Office premises sized up to 100 sq m form 69% share in the supply structure. The possibility to lease office blocks over 1,000 sq m exists in Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk and Rostov-on-Don. Also in Voronezh and Volgograd there is an opportunity to rent the entire business centre (24,400 and 2,640 sq m, respectively).