Chelyabinsk is among the cities where housing affordability has decreased in five years

In large Russian cities, on average, you can buy 7.3 square meters of housing on the secondary market for an annual income - over the past five years, the figure has increased by 9%, RIA Novosti reports. The dynamics were uneven: if in Krasnodar and Novokuznetsk availability increased by 2.3 and 2 square meters, respectively, in Togliatti, Cheboksary, Kirov, Saratov and Chelyabinsk the situation is reversed.

So, in Chelyabinsk this year on average annual income you can buy less meters than in 2021. This is due to the rise in prices of secondary housing in the market by 2-2.3 times over the past five years.

In general, the most affordable “squares” in the country are in Novokuznetsk (10.6 square meters on the average city annual income), Lipetsk (9.4), Tyumen (9.3), Orenburg (8.9) and Astrakhan (8.6). In Tyumen, comparative accessibility is due to the high average level of wages, in other cases - low prices in the secondary market.

The most difficult to buy square meters in Sochi, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kazan — these large cities are leading in terms of prices for secondary.

28.3% of working South Urals receive less than 45 thousand rubles a month