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Residents of Russian cities, from Moscow to Novosibirsk, love the sea very much. And in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to satisfy this passion with just a trip to the Turkish coast - with riding a "banana", belly dancing, and fighting for free sun loungers on the beach.

People need more, namely, their own property in close proximity to the salty waters. And few realize how easy it is to make this dream a reality: there are places in Russia where seaside property is very affordable.

Paradise in a Hut

Local real estate markets on different coasts within the Russian Federation have been studied by experts from BEST-Novostroi company. Comparing prices, they concluded that anyone can become an owner of modest seaside property with almost any budget - prices for such properties in the country start at eight thousand rubles per square meter.

A two-room apartment was chosen as the starting point for the study. The rating of the cheapest offers was compiled in descending order of price.

So, the most expensive among the most affordable is a two-room apartment in Svetlogorsk - one of the most popular resort cities in the Kaliningrad region, which is often called the "little Switzerland" and the "northern Sochi". The 41 square meter property is sold for 2.9 million rubles.

In second place is a 39-square-meter apartment in the village of Novomikhailovka on the Black Sea coast, in the Tuapse district. The property is offered to buyers for only 1.75 million rubles.

In the village of Kuchugury, which became famous all over the country thanks to the TV series "Svaty" (they were filmed here), a 40 square meter two-room apartment on the ground floor of a two-story house, located 300 meters from the Azov Sea, costs only 1.7 million rubles. The "bonus" for the buyer is a large open veranda.
The fourth place in the ranking is taken by a two-room apartment on the coast of the warm Caspian Sea in Derbent: for only 1.6 million rubles, buyers are offered a 54 square meter property in a city where the bathing season lasts about 150 days.

The leader in affordability is a seaside apartment priced at only 450 thousand rubles in the city of Kandalaksha on the White Sea. It is cool there, of course. But among the other water bodies in the Arctic basin, the White Sea is considered the warmest; in the summer, the water temperature in the shallows sometimes rises to +18 degrees.

And Seriously

Most of the experts in the real estate market, whom Dom magazine interviewed about the idea of ​​buying property on the White Sea coast, were skeptical. "When making a decision to purchase real estate near the sea as a permanent place of residence, it is necessary to analyze the region's development prospects as a whole," comments Petr Kirillovsky, Director of Strategic Communications of the GRAS group of companies. "There is potential for development only where "there is life". We can endlessly fantasize about the great potential, for example, of the Taman Peninsula as a "Russian Las Vegas", but in reality we see that the center of attraction has been and remains Sochi."

For those who absolutely do not like the Olympic capital of Russia, there is a new Russian region - Crimea. "Crimea was a very interesting topic last year," says Sergey Shloma, Director of the Secondary Market Department at INCOM Real Estate. "Those who bought apartments there in March 2014 are very happy. Because real estate prices in Sevastopol have increased by about one and a half times. This market has always been and still is, the only one in Russia that remains dollar-based. So the investments there turned out to be very good."

According to the expert, in the spring of last year, people purchased Crimean real estate at an average price of one thousand dollars per square meter, and now the "square" costs already one and a half thousand dollars or more. "In addition, the price has increased in rubles due to the devaluation of the Russian currency," points out Shloma. "So those who invested three million rubles can now "withdraw" 7.5 million rubles. But to be fair, I have to admit that my friends are not in a hurry to do it".

Another not so "promoted" seaside location like Sochi and Crimea, but attractive - Gelendzhik. "Today among the Black Sea cities, Gelendzhik has the optimal balance between housing prices and the level of development of the city as a whole," says Grigory Altukhov, Commercial Director of FSK "Lider". Real estate in the city, where "dark nights" are too expensive, in his opinion - prices here are comparable to those in the Moscow suburbs, and it falls short of a comfortable living and recreation level because of the underdeveloped infrastructure located just west of Anapa.

Defending the city with its sand beaches, beloved by children, is Irina Shumskaya, Marketing and Sales Director of the management company "Fond Yug": "Real estate in Anapa is currently one of the most attractive investment objects in the Krasnodar region. Real estate here is undervalued." As the expert notes, in the summer of 2014, a record number of tourists visited Anapa, which, in turn, led to an increase in real estate prices - on average, prices increased by 15 percent. "This year, further increase in the number of tourists is expected, which will also lead to an increase in housing prices," promises Mrs. Shumskaya.

In general, most experts do not recommend beach lovers to "reinvent the wheel": all the suitable places for a good seaside vacation are well known, so Bering, Barents, and Laptev can relax and explore the possibilities of acquiring property in "traditional" Russian resorts. "The promising places, that is, those where we predict high demand in the near future, will remain Sochi, Imeretinskaya Lowland, and Crimea," concludes Valeria Kosenkova, Head of the Urban Real Estate Department at Kalinka Group.

The price of reality

So, forget about the "cheap" real estate by the sea - the one in which you can swim sober. Apartments, apartments, houses, and land plots in the above mentioned attractive coastal locations cost money, and a lot.

In Crimea, according to the Yalta office of the Miel company, the most expensive properties are located on the South Coast of Crimea (YUBK). If compared to Simferopol, prices here are 20-60 percent higher. In Yevpatoriya - approximately the same as in Simferopol; in Feodosiya, housing is cheaper by 5-10 percent, in Kerch prices are 20-40 percent lower. Alushta, Gurzuf, Mishor - are all in the same price range, while Yalta is slightly more expensive (by 10-20 percent). For example, in Yalta, the minimum cost of a one-room apartment on the secondary market is $55,000. A similar apartment in Feodosiya will cost $35,000.

In new buildings in Simferopol and Sevastopol, the cost per square meter is now starting from $800, in cities and villages of the South Coast - from $1,200. As for Crimean land, the price range is huge. A hundred square meters of land in cities and villages can cost several thousand or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Land plots located along the Alushta-Yalta highway are offered at a price of $7,000-15,000 per hundred square meters.

In Sochi, the average price per square meter of housing on the secondary market as of the first quarter of 2015 exceeded 77 thousand rubles (according to the federal portal "World of Apartments"). Apartments in new buildings are offered at an average price of 65 thousand rubles per square meter. At the Miel office in Sochi, they stated that on average, one-room apartments in the city cost 2.5 million rubles, two-room apartments - four million, and three-room apartments - five million rubles.

Prices for real estate in Gelendzhik vary greatly depending on the distance from the sea or the city center: the minimum cost per square meter is about 40 thousand rubles in new buildings located no less than a 30-minute walk from the nearest beach. In the city center, the price is 60-75 thousand rubles per square meter. Apartments in houses located on the first coastline, of course, are the most expensive - starting from 95 thousand rubles per square meter, according to materials provided by "Miel".

In Anapa, over 90 percent of residential real estate under construction is in the economy and comfort classes. Therefore, according to "Fond Yug", the average cost of an apartment here does not exceed three million rubles. For example, a one-room apartment with a "turnkey" finish in one of the residential complexes in the city can be purchased for only 1.7 million rubles.

You can buy it - but do you need to? As practice shows, residents of Russian megacities who go to the sea, to the mountains of India, the forests of Cambodia, the remote villages of Vietnam, and the caves of the Caucasus find it difficult to adapt to a peaceful existence. After a month or two, they miss the morning rush in the subway, after another month - they desperately want to get stuck in a traffic jam, after six months - they dam up the neighbors and argue with the public utilities staff.

"When a person has money, he wants to buy a house by the sea - this is understandable, it's a beautiful fairy tale," explains Sergey Shloma. "But after he has been to this house or apartment three or four times, spent two weeks there each time, he gets bored. He wants to go to another country, to another sea, and this seaside property becomes a burden, and he dreams of selling it. So, if you want to live by the sea, rent