OREANDA-NEWS   Chelyabinsk has become the Russian city where housing is the cheapest. The locations with the most affordable real estate were named by Alexander Ivanov, a leading analyst at the federal company Floors, in an interview with Izvestia.

By the end of October, the average cost per square meter of ready-made housing in Chelyabinsk was 100.4 thousand rubles. Volgograd, with a square for 100.5 thousand rubles, took the second place in the top of the most affordable cities for buying an apartment, and Voronezh, with a square for 108.2 thousand rubles, came in third. Omsk (111.3 thousand rubles) and Perm (118.4 thousand rubles) rounded out the top five.

In general, the cost per square meter of "secondary" in Russian cities has hardly changed over the year — an increase of 0.7 percent. "This has not been observed since 2018, when the average price decreased by 3.7 percent, after which prices showed active growth," said Alexander Ivanov.

Earlier it was reported that new buildings in Russia have risen in price by 13 percent over the year.