Real estate: Rebuilding a house of cards

In 2008, Russia’s property developers were hit by a brutal mix of fast-shrinking funding options and falling customer demand, sending equity valuations into a tailspin. Guy Norton reports from Moscow on the prospects for recovery.

Russia: Fairy tale ending or start of a nightmare?

Reforms are crucial to recovery

ALWAYS READ THE small print. It’s one of the cardinal rules of any successful investment strategy but seemingly one that was widely ignored when it came to the Russian real estate market. In the pre-credit-crunch period, investors snapped up billions of dollars-worth of stock in initial public offerings from the sector in the belief that demand and prices for real estate in Russia were heading in one direction only – to infinity and beyond.

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