Officials "pushed" businessmen

According to market participants, more and more buyers of the Moscow real estate have become public servants. By the end of 2010, sales in this segment has grown significantly, reaching 50-60% of the pre-crisis measure, according to "free press". At the same time and changed the social portrait of the buyer. Whereas previously the main clients were wealthy businessmen and quickly people: intellectuals and representatives of show business, it is already by 2005 the proportion of officials has grown to 50%, says the source principal analyst at the Russian Guild of Realtors Gennady Sternik. In this expensive purchase could not afford even the staff of middle managers. Now emerging trend is preserved, I am sure Sternik, although the crisis and changed a lot. True, other market participants with such statistics do not fully agree. For example, the head of "new quality" Olga Kapinos admitted that their main clients are still representatives of business, with most of them engaged in the oil industry or the banks. However, to say exactly how large proportion of officers among the buyers of real estate is difficult, experts say. As a general rule, government officials prefer to "keep a low profile" and make out an apartment to the next of kin. Another interesting fact is that the major purchasers of such housing are natives of the region. A similar trend there has been back in the early 2000's, ascertain market participants.