Photo: Evgeny Reutov / Roscongress
The session “Integrated development of territories: new horizons in housing construction” was held at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. The participants of the meeting discussed the prospects for the use of federal lands and the difficulties of their involvement in economic circulation.
“THE KEY ISSUE IS LAND”
DOM.RF General Director Vitaly Mutko said that the organization is actively working on the integrated territorial development (CTD) project. In addition, out of 113 projects in 48 regions, the development institute organizes 55 KRT programs. In total, within the framework of the KRT program, it is planned to build 23.4 million sq. m on an area of 5,400 hectares, of which DOM.RF participates personally or through developers in the construction of 7.8 million sq. m of housing on 1,390 hectares.
General Director of DOM.RF Vitaly Mutko. Photo: Evgeny Reutov / Roscongress
“The KRT reduces the approval period by half, which is a very serious mechanism for accelerating housing construction,” says Vitaly Mutko. – DOM.RF In this matter, as the state agent for land participation, we are trying to do everything possible publicly, openly, to prepare these lands well. And, of course, here we are partners of the regions. We are ready with the regions to consider both the issues of undemarcated lands and their own. We can become operators: several regions and municipalities have approached us. Now the key issue is land; a considerable amount will be needed, about 550-600 million square meters. “We will have to create urban potential within five years in order to be able to implement plans for the renewal of the housing stock.”
“A COMPLETELY COOL THING”
Russian Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services Nikita Stasishin said that support measures for the Far Eastern regions, which come from the Ministry of Construction of Russia, the Ministry for the Development of the Far East and DOM.RF, have positive effects. To date, housing delivery is improving qualitatively, urban planning potential is growing, as well as the number of large developers entering the Far Eastern construction market, so the competition for those lands that have been prepared by the DOM.RF team for the integration and development of territories is increasing.
Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Russia Nikita Stasishin. Photo: Evgeny Reutov / Roscongress
“The main task for 2030 is to ensure that the average per capita consumption is at least 33 sq. m per person and to renew the housing stock,” Nikita Stasishin is convinced.
The president of the national builders’ association NOSTROY, Anton Glushkov, called the auction format combining CRT mechanisms and bidding “for one share”, used by DOM.RF, the director of NOSTROY, “absolutely brilliant”, which allows “to reduce the economic value threshold at entry and to share risks between the two parties, which is also very good.”
For three years now, the Russian Ministry of Construction has been actively working to reduce technical requirements for housing construction. Almost every quarter, the number of mandatory requirements decreases and moves into the voluntary category. Thanks to this, the variability of certain engineering solutions is expanding. At the same time, a very serious question arises for today’s developers: the main reason for the increase in the cost of building schools and kindergartens is not construction standards, but sanitary standards.
“It is also necessary to take into account the issues of sanitary and technical requirements, which significantly affect the economics of creating social infrastructure. The time has come when we need to get closer to them,” Anton Glushkov summed up.
PUSHING NEGLECTIVE OWNERS
Deputy Director of the Federal Agency for State Property Management Alexey Pavlov clarifies that the main task of the agency now is to bring federal property (buildings and structures) that are used inefficiently into economic circulation.
“We have recently been conducting an inventory across the country and have already identified about 12 thousand such objects,” says Alexey Pavlov. “The government has set us the task of increasing the pace of their participation in economic turnover. And we have recently made major changes, including the privatization law. They have simplified this procedure quite a bit and made it more competitive. In particular, from the moment of making the decision to the sale of the property itself, it takes us no more than three months. And we advertise our properties a lot on well-known sites.”
The head of the Strana Development Group, Alexander Gaidukov, proposes to take tougher action: to increase taxes on those owners who do not develop the territory in any way.
“These territories are not being developed at all. The owners of these plots have long since left for abroad and are in no hurry to do anything with them: neither sell the land, nor rebuild it in some way, nor launch something. And here is one of the ideas, perhaps it is, of course, crazy: DOM.RF should take these lands under its protection and, together with the municipalities, make some kind of inventory on them. Increase taxes on them by 50-100 times and replenish the treasury of the Russian Federation, Alexander Gaidukov suggested. Maybe this will somehow encourage negligent owners to involve these lands in the real estate market and sell them at auctions.”
