Russian oligarchs bought up luxury real estate in New York

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Rtvi I found out how Russian oligarchs acquire real estate in New York and what benefits they are pursuing.

In New York, the most expensive living space in the history of the city was put up for sale: a penthouse for $ 110 million in Lower Manhattan. More recently, for $ 100 million, they sold an apartment at Central Park, in a building called “The House of Billionaires”. Experts say that the trend is already obvious: foreigners are increasingly investing their money in luxury housing in large American cities. Most among them are citizens of China, India and Russia.

Living room, two floors, three bedrooms and the same balconies, as well as panoramic windows overlooking the Statue of Liberty and the elevator. Realtor Konstantin Zaliznyak showed a two-level apartment on Perry Street in Lower Manhattan. The future owner will be able to do there any redevelopment. For 350 square meters, the seller asks for $ 13 million. Zaliznyak said that a certain Russian businessman had already become interested in apartments. The realtor has no right to call his name, but can tell about his future neighbors. In the three-story complex lives the actor Hugh Jackman, designer Calvin Klein, a little higher, and actress Nicole Kidman used to live.

And on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, on 75th Street, construction work has been going on for a month. In September, the famous Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought a mansion in this area - his fourth. He wants to unite them into one big house. Realtor Dmitry Stasiuk says that the oligarch took a big risk: “Abramovich was able to buy these two outer houses and only then bought this middle one. If the deal had fallen apart, then the whole idea of ​​making one big house would have fallen apart too.” At first, Abramovich was even refused a grandiose project, but the billionaire did not give up, and then decided to buy a fourth house adjacent to the others, and eventually paid $96 million. “It was a tenant house, and all the apartments here were rented out. Just a year ago apartments were still being offered. Then, I think, the contract ended - and now the house is empty.”

Central Park West - the most prestigious area of ​​the city. Businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev purchased an apartment here in 2011. He paid $88 million for ten rooms, four bedrooms, a library and a terrace. The deal went down in history: at that time it was the most expensive apartment ever sold in New York. But this is a profitable investment: luxury real estate in the capital of the world is unlikely to depreciate in value, but rather will steadily rise in price. In general, Rybolovlev knows what he is doing.

Just a few days ago, he sold at auction Christie's Leonardo da Vinci's “Savior of the World” canvas for a record $ 450 million. So now you can watch a few more penthouses in the city for a collector. The list of owners of luxury apartments and entrepreneur Kristina Kovalenko, who bought a loft on 43-th street. And the billionaire's wife, Melnichenko, Alexander, has acquired a penthouse in the south of Central Park. Among other famous people among the property owners in New York are Igor Krutoy, Mikhail Prokhorov, Vyacheslav Fetisov.

The invasion of the Russian rich excited the mayor of New York Bill De Blasio. Right before the election, he declared that he did not like Russian oligarchs. In an interview with RTVI, he explained this by saying that they all, as he believes, had become rich in a dishonest way. But such loud statements were scared of very few people: the billionaires who had seen the views understood that the laws of the American market would not be revised, and the statements of the mayor-socialist were only election populism. Therefore, entrepreneurs, not only from Russia, but also from other countries unfriendly to the United States, boldly continue to buy up-market real estate in New York. According to the National Association of Realtors USA, in 2017, foreigners invested $ 153 billion in US real estate. This is 49% more than in 2016. In total, they acquired more 284 thousands of objects, exceeding 2016 of the year by 32%.

In the first place in the list of lovers of American property is China. Residents of this country spent on the purchase of real estate $ 31,7 billion. And three years ago the company Anbang Insurance Group acquired a legendary hotel Waldorf astoria new york for $ 2 billion. Mexicans and Indians, for example, become owners of homes and apartments in the United States. The accumulated capital of the inhabitants of these countries prefer to take out of the country, and one of the best investment options is to buy real estate in the United States. Low taxes, when the buyer pays the entire 1% of the apartment price, and the seller - 2%, attract more and more foreigners. “Real estate in New York, as a rule, does not fall in price due to a stable political and financial system. Therefore, it is quite natural that investors from all over the world invest their money in New York houses and apartments, ”says financial analyst Philippe Jessue.

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Of course, America is not Europe. Millions invested in real estate do not give here the right to obtain a residence permit, much less citizenship. But you can save, and even increase millions of dollars.

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