Residential buildings in the largest cities of Russia have grown by seven floors in 25 years

Residential buildings in the largest cities of Russia have grown by seven floors over the past 25 years, RIA Novosti reports, citing data from Tsian.

The average number of floors in new buildings built in 2001-2026 reached 13 floors, while in older buildings this figure is only six floors. Thus, houses in cities with a population of over a million have become almost 2.5 times higher.

The leaders in the average height of new buildings were Moscow (16.3 floors), Yekaterinburg (16 floors) and St. Petersburg (14.9 floors). The greatest contrast between new and old housing stock is observed in Yekaterinburg, where modern buildings are 10.3 floors higher, as well as in Krasnoyarsk and Rostov-on-Don.

In parallel with the increase in the number of floors, the area of ​​apartments has also increased. On average, housing in houses of the last quarter of a century is six square meters more spacious than in older properties. The largest new apartments are being built in Samara (66 square meters), Krasnoyarsk (64 square meters) and Kazan (62 square meters). However, in Krasnodar and St. Petersburg the trend is the opposite: there new apartments turned out to be smaller than old ones.

The share of the most recent buildings (2021-2026) in the total development of million-plus cities varies from 12 percent in Nizhny Novgorod to 56 percent in Krasnodar, with an average of 22 percent. At the same time, housing in new houses is more expensive: the minimum difference in price was recorded in Moscow (8 percent), the maximum in Chelyabinsk (47 percent).