Real estate will fuel economic growth in Russia, Cushman & Wakefield's Moscow director Sergey Riabokobylko told Bloomberg on Tuesday. 'Construction is the new economic driver in Russia', Riabokobylko said. According to the global advisor, property investors such as Russia's second-richest man Oleg Deripaska are ploughing money into the country's 'new oil'. Deripaska is to invest $2 bn (EUR 1 bn) in a new resort near Sochi, the Black Sea resort bidding to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2014. Last month, Deripaska bought 30% of Austria's biggest builder Strabag for EUR 1.2 bn.
Real estate will fuel economic growth in Russia, Cushman & Wakefield's Moscow director Sergey Riabokobylko told Bloomberg on Tuesday. 'Construction is the new economic driver in Russia', Riabokobylko said. According to the global advisor, property investors such as Russia's second-richest man Oleg Deripaska are ploughing money into the country's 'new oil'. Deripaska is to invest $2 bn (EUR 1 bn) in a new resort near Sochi, the Black Sea resort bidding to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2014. Last month, Deripaska bought 30% of Austria's biggest builder Strabag for EUR 1.2 bn.
Developers' appetite for new cities, other than the safe havens of Moscow and St. Petersburg, will drive the Russian market, which experienced in 2006 the ninth straight year of growth, Riabokobylko suggested. 'Across the Russian Federation, the cities of 300,000 to 500,000 people are seeing rapid development of infrastructure for real estate,' he said.