Loading ...The title of the most expensive city of the world is still reserves by New York. The cost of one-bedroom apartment there on the average is $3000 per a month, informs Forbes. The level of offers on the housing market is very low here and therefore the high rent is not only to be kept, but also, according to the forecasts, will grow up on 6,6%. The rented lodging costs the most to the tenants who settled down in Manhattan or along the Central park.
London is not inferior much in the rent rates and every year it confirms the reputation of the most expensive city of the Europe. The usual one-bedroom apartment with an inexpensive renovation in the center of London may cost about $500 per a week, or from $2500 per a month. A two-bedroom apartment in London suburbs with an inexpensive renovation costs on average from $800 per a month. The cost of rent rates on lodging in London, as well as all over the world, strongly depends on an area of city.
The cost of apartments rent rapidly grows in Paris due to the population increase and the lodging shortage. One-bedroom (45 % of the market), and two-bedrooms (38 %) apartments are of great demand. At present time the rental prices on apartments located in the center of Paris near Louver, the Opera, the Mayoralties, the Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God come to $20-30 per sq. m./a month, i.e. about $1500-3000 per a month. The V District (Sorbonne, Pantheon, and the Luxembourg Garden) is the area of students. A usual one-bedroom apartment with an inexpensive renovation here costs approximately $500-600 per a month. The 6-th and the 7-th districts near the Eiffel Tower, the 4-th and 5-th districts near Sorbonne keep the reputation of expensive areas, and the 18-th district is considered to be the cheapest on the north part of Paris.
Rome is the most rapidly developing city of Italy, but the market of lodging rent is moderate, that impacts the prices. The demand for apartments with short-term and long-term rent in Rome remains constant the whole-year round. A one-bedroom apartment with a minimum of convenience costs approximately $800 per a month to Romans. An apartment located in the central part and nearby the subway, is quick to be leased for $600-1200 per a week, i.e. $3000-4000 per a month, and perhaps more, depending on design and the modern equipment. Especially, in case an apartment has a terrace with the view on the ancient city, the price of rent increases on 10%-15%. It is more prestigious to live in the Old city and Prati. The southern part of Rome, for example Via Laurentia, is considered to be the most inexpensive.
In the capital of Czechia exists the high demand on apartments rent that explains by wide stream of foreigners, businessmen and the well-offs arriving to Prague on official business for a long enough time period. Hotels do not match to such sort of Prague visitors due to their high costs. The rental prices for standard type lodging at a few bus stops distance from the subway terminal station are about $300-500 per a month for leasing one-bedroom apartments with inexpensive repair. The rent fee for two-three bedrooms apartments will make $400-700 per a month. The proximity to the subway, as well as to the city centre, extends a rent fee on $120-150 per a month.
In Moscow tenants can consider on average cost of a rent about $750 per a month for a one-bedroom apartment, about $1000 per a month for a two-bedrooms apartment, and $1500 per a month for a three-bedrooms apartment in the houses constructed in the Soviet Union time, near the subway terminal stations. The prices for lux-class apartments and business-class lodging amounts approximately to $2000 per a month for a one-room apartment, starts from $3000 per a month for a two-room apartment and from $4000 per a month for a three-room apartment.
Berlin has the fame of the cheapest out of all West-European capitals. The demand for lodging there is less than the offer, and during the last 10 years, the prices have grown up only on 5 %. A usual one-bedroom apartment with inexpensive renovation will cost about $ per a month, a two-bedroom apartment – about $600 per a month. However, everything is very individual. The lodging quality is not considered to be the only important, but its location.
The apartments’ rent prices also in Japan remain stable for a long time-period. That favored by the huge offer: actually, on each street there are profitable houses. Speaking about Tokyo the plain lodging similar to the Russian students’ hostels - with a small room, with a kitchen and a bathroom in a corridor - costs to leasers about $400 per a month. A two-bedroom apartment with big hall costs from $1000 per a month, than the prices are widely varies. To those is necessary to add $100-200 per a month on public utilities, however, on the whole, the prices are more admissible than in Moscow.
It’s typical that in Japan a contract with a landlord usually includes an additional one-time charge, amounting to 2-3 monthly fees: the mortgage and the “gratitude” to an apartment owner. By the way, the last, forbidden by the law in a number of the countries and is the Japanese peculiarity.
Almaty, Kazakhstan is considered to be the most expensive city of the CIS countries after Moscow. The average cost of apartments rent in comparison with other former republics of Soviet Union considerably high and almost catches up with the Russian capital. The cost of lodging rent rates, depends not only on area of the city, but also on the year of a building construction, on a security availability, on an underground parking, on the quality of a building finishing, on a apartment’s actual space, etc. Thus, the cost of one-room apartments out side the city centre with middling renovation, in houses constructed in the Soviet Union time reaches $600 per a month, two-room apartments – starts from $800, and three-room apartments - starts from $1500 per a month. In newly built houses that have security and an underground parking place two-room apartments cost from $2000 per in a month, three-rooms - from $3000 per a month.
Materials of the newspaper “Sight” have been used in the article.