The buyers of the most expensive apartments in Moscow have become known.

Record 2.4 million rubles per square meter

The agency specializing in luxury residential real estate, Kalinka Group, has named RBK the five most expensive deals on the Moscow new construction market last year.

According to the company, the total amount of the five purchases was 4.35 billion rubles. More than half of this amount, about 2.4 billion rubles, was accounted for by two transactions. We are talking about the purchase of two townhouses with an area of 500 square meters each in the Noble Row residential complex, built by AP Development in the Ostozhenka area. Kalinka Group clarifies that these deals were approximately equal in value.

The third place in the Kalinka Group ranking is occupied by the purchase of approximately 900 square meters in the Cloud Nine residential complex on Bolshaya Polyanka. The developer, "Vesper," calls this complex an "ambitious project of thoughtful renovation of four buildings from the 19th-20th centuries. In fourth place is another deal in the residential complex being built by "Vesper": a 327 square meter apartment in the Bunin complex in Plyushchikh. The fifth largest deal was the purchase of an apartment with an area of 378 square meters in the Mon Cher residential complex on Bolshaya Yakimanka by Capital Group. According to the developer, this five-story club house has 26 "fashionable apartments". Kalinka Group does not disclose the specific amounts of these three deals.

The Bunin complex in Plyushchikh (Photo: Vladislav Shatilo / RBK)
Colliers International partner Vladimir Sergunin confirms that the townhouses in Noble Row cost approximately 1.2 billion rubles each. Accordingly, the price per square meter in this residential complex is about 2.4 million rubles. Sergunin believes that the deal in Cloud Nine could have also been valued at 1.2 billion rubles, in which case the price per square meter would be only about 1.3 million rubles. The expert estimated the apartment in Bunin at 345 million rubles (slightly more than 1 million rubles per square meter), and the apartment in Mon Cher at 355 million rubles (939,000 rubles per square meter).

Expensive buyers

In 2017, two deals were registered in the building located at Korobeinikov Lane, 1, building 5 (address of the Noble Row residential complex), according to materials from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. In April 2017, Dmitry Vladimirovich Konov, the full namesake of the head of the Sibur petrochemical complex, bought 456.8 square meters. A month later, 444.8 square meters were acquired by Larisa Dmitrievna Belobrova. This is also the name of the wife of the former governor of Primorye and former deputy minister of regional development, Sergei Darkin.

Dmitry Konov ranks 193rd in the latest rating of the "200 richest businessmen in Russia" with a fortune of $500 million.

Forbes evaluated Larisa Belobrova's fortune at $220 million as of the end of 2014. At that time, she was ranked 9th in the ranking of the richest women in Russia. A year later, based on the results of 2015, Belobrova dropped to 17th place in the ranking, and the estimate of her fortune dropped to $125 million. Afterwards, the Honored Artist of Russia (she has been performing at the Primorsky Academic Kray Drama Theater named after Gorky since 1987) did not make it onto this ranking.

Belobrova herself explained in a meeting with students: "My husband already owned a huge enterprise before taking a government position. And since he was not allowed to have any business while in office, everything was transferred to me. You understand, that's how everyone does it, and it's completely normal and legal." In 2013, Belobrova declared an income of 824 million rubles, while her husband Sergei Darkin, at that time deputy minister, only had 2.5 million rubles. The year before, Belobrova reported an income of 1.45 billion rubles, and Darkin - almost 2.6 million rubles.

There is no information about the owners of the apartments in the Cloud Nine and Bunin residential complexes in the Unified State Register of Real Estate - the buildings have not yet been put into operation and the developer has not obtained ownership rights.

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