Apartments in Moscow with an attic floor!

Those who follow our publications know that in the “I want an apartment” section we explore the topic of purchasing housing in the “tested for ourselves” genre. This time, the rating of Moscow developers, which is maintained by Stroitelstvo.RU, has been replenished. This developer is famous for its budget real estate prices. We decided to check how friendly the company's marketing policy corresponds to the real prices of apartments in its residential complexes. And at the same time evaluate the level of work with clients, the comfort of loan programs, and, in fact, the quality of the construction itself.

Transport accessibility: it’s not so easy to get here yet

...The Teatral Park residential complex is a low-rise residential complex that is being built almost next door to Moscow’s satellite city, Korolev. True, to find it, we had to drive along country roads where two cars can hardly pass each other. The complex is located in the suburban area of ​​Burkovo.

I must admit, the views that flashed outside the car window were impressive. I thought that the environment here is definitely fine. But from the residential complex to the nearest railway station - the Valentinovka platform - you need to walk 300 meters. For those who work in Moscow, the connection is not very convenient. The Moscow bus does not run here yet. To get on it, you first need to get to Korolev. When the complex is occupied, they promise to launch direct transport, but so far such prospects are very vague.

Rating: transport accessibility - satisfactory, ecology - excellent

Progress of construction work: the third stage is being built in the complex

...Finally, rows of neat four-story buildings open before us, with elegant red and white “brick” facades and fashionable attics on the top floors. We arrived. The residential complex is still under construction. Two lines are already ready, and, in part, even occupied. A third one is currently under construction. From afar we observe the pit, where work is literally in full swing. Bulldozers are “working”, KAMAZ trucks are driving up, workers are bustling around the site. In short, construction is underway. The houses of the third stage, as we read on the website, are planned to be completed by 2019. But for now construction is at zero cycle.

Rating: progress of construction work is good.

The project was launched by the Life Path Foundation in 2020 in a rented apartment, and continued its work on October 1, 2020 in a new, own territory. In three new apartments, provided by the city of Moscow to the Life Path Foundation for free use for 25 years and renovated with charitable funds, live adults with developmental disabilities who cannot yet or will never be able to live independently, without support. The project was called “House under a Roof” (because all three apartments are located in a new building on the top floor). The apartments are occupied by the first ten residents - five girls and five young men.

Autism and schizophrenia, genetic and speech disorders, cerebral palsy - this is an incomplete list of features that project participants live with. What difficulties can prevent a person from being independent? For example, lack of social and everyday skills (from hygiene and cooking to using a washing machine). Or the inability to stay alone at home and occupy oneself, problems with spatial orientation or “strange behavior” on the road. Almost all residents of training apartments require individual support. Everyone must have a day job (work or study, additional clubs, hobbies, sports activities). Nobody sits at home all day.

Depending on the required level of support, accompanying persons (curators) come to the residents for a while or are always with them. The goal of the project is to create a basis for the future permanent supported residence of young people with disabilities. And the accompanying persons face the difficult task of maximizing the development of everyday and social skills, behavior correction and training. Including the skill of requesting help and support not only from professional employees, but also from their neighbors (teaching special adults the rules of community life and mutual assistance).

In the 2018-2019 academic year, study visits last 3 months. From Monday to Friday, young people live in a training apartment and go to their parents on weekends. Apartment residents are very different people. Some write and play the piano, use the telephone and public transport, while others communicate using cards, communication buttons and need constant support. We try to take into account individual needs and capabilities. Some people still live in the training apartment only part of the weekdays, some live alone, and some live with a roommate. One of the apartments is equipped with a rail ceiling system and is specially equipped for people with mobility impairments.

We are just learning (together with the first residents), but the relevance of the project and its social significance is confirmed by the large queue of people willing to take part in it.

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Availability of information: nothing is hidden from the client here

The sales office is already waiting for us - we called in advance and made an appointment. It’s pleasantly surprising that we are immediately offered a ride to the complex itself. They express their readiness to show and tell everything. Moreover, the manager is not embarrassed by the “capricious” position of the client in my person, who wanted to see everything at once: a one-room apartment with a loggia, a studio apartment, an apartment on the first floor without a loggia and, finally, a two-room apartment on the third floor without an elevator.

Moreover, let’s make a reservation that all these apartments are located in different buildings, and our “tour guide” - a pleasant middle-aged man - smiles at the prospect of a fair amount of wandering around the residential complex, spread over several thousand square meters. Surprisingly, he steadfastly agrees. Another pleasant surprise was a minibus parked near the sales office, where my colleague and I were loaded. The original KIA that we drove here remains in the parking lot.

Rating: Availability of visual information about the complex - excellent.

Visual inspection: not only told, but also shown

It’s our turn to ooh and aah, be horrified, admire and be surprised. We will experience all this variety of feelings in just a couple of tens of minutes. Our “tour guide” (let’s call him Alexey) dashingly taxis up to the object of inspection - in this house we have to see a two-room apartment with an area of ​​60 square meters. You have to walk up to the third floor. There is no elevator here.

“Yes,” our companion justifies himself, “for some reason they didn’t plan elevators in this building.” It was supposed to gain footage by using the elevator shafts. —...But in all other buildings of the complex, despite the fact that they are low-rise, elevators are provided.

On the way, we note the high-quality finishing of the walls and ceiling in the entrance - they clearly didn’t skimp on the decor here. But the apartment itself is, as usual, unfinished. So far there is not even a cement screed, and the internal floors are marked with a “dotted line” - columns of brick laid along the demarcation lines. We are wondering how much it might cost to repair, in addition to the cost of the apartment. Alexey does not hide:

- Lay down six hundred thousand.

We are figuring out how much our two-room apartment will actually cost us. Oh-ho-ho. Immediately there is a desire to move to a more budget sector. Let's look at a studio with an area of ​​25 square meters. meters. Its price seems more attractive to us. The studio apartment we are moving into is very small in appearance, and is probably designed for one person. For a family of two, it will be a bit cramped here, to put it mildly.

“There’s no turning around here,” my colleague complains. – You can only come here to spend the night!

In these square meters, it’s true that you feel somewhat constrained. However, in the buildings of the third stage, which are still under construction, the overwhelming majority of the planned apartments are studios. This is explained by economic benefits. The more such “patch” apartments are sold, the greater the profit.

“No, this apartment is still too small for us,” we declare, following our “scenario” (we are looking for an apartment for a family of two). And we decidedly headed to look at the one-room apartment on the first floor. Here, unexpectedly for ourselves, we find a loggia with a magnificent view of the forest, a half-screed (on the first floors, as they explained to us, such a screed is done in all apartments), a fairly large kitchen - it seems about eleven meters. The apartment is perhaps the most optimal if you look at the price-quality ratio. Let's take a note.

Our last goal is the showroom of the Teatralny Park residential complex, a studio apartment with finishing (these will be rented in one of the buildings of the third stage). The apartment is from the “come in and live” series: there is a high-quality laminate on the floor, quite decent wallpaper on the walls, plumbing is installed in the bathroom, everything is tiled. A completely modern, comfortable apartment, if you “close your eyes” to its square footage.

To be fair, let us note that all the houses we visited were built to a fairly high quality and look attractive. All necessary communications are laid inside. The territory, despite the fact that construction is still underway, is for the most part landscaped.

True, there is practically no social infrastructure yet. But they promised a school with 600 places, a kindergarten, a post office, a beauty salon, multi-level parking for 900 cars with additional guest parking spaces.

Let’s summarize: from the manager accompanying us at the show, we received comprehensive information about the complex; he answered the most tricky questions honestly, objectively and, most importantly, patiently.

Rating : display of the complex by the manager - excellent, social infrastructure - good

How producers live: an attic apartment with an open terrace in Moscow

Today we are showing an unusual apartment in which interior designer Stepan Bugaev was able to combine the romance of an attic, loft elements, multi-level ceilings and unusual art objects. In general, so that we can live like this

The customer of this project is a producer, director and, in general, a creative person. He got an unusual apartment, full of non-standard elements: an attic floor, large windows, multi-level ceilings, a terrace and a complex configuration. Interior designer Stepan undertook to collect all these details and create not only an aesthetic and creative space, but also a space convenient for everyday life.

This project has a whole set of features, but the main one can rightfully be considered the unusual ceiling, which, due to the break in the roof, has a different height in each room. The roof slopes are designed in such a way that there is no symmetry in the interior and some structural beams are lowered quite low, and this, in turn, became an obstacle to creating a free layout.

For this reason, the designer did not make any structural changes and worked mainly with finishing and filling the apartment with furniture and decor.

The chosen interior concept allowed the designer to mix in one apartment things that are completely different in style, but at the same time harmoniously adjacent: classic frames of door portals, loft lamps, an art object in the form of the head of Nefertiti, etc. Despite the fact that at first glance this combination sounds quite bold, all these items together do not look pretentious or inappropriate.

The main tool for zoning in public space is color: a black and white palette clearly divides the room into an entrance area (black) and a relaxation and reception area (white). But the color scheme is not limited to this: natural materials of appropriate shades are integrated into the black and white interior.

The dining area is located in the brightest place of the apartment - a large light opening on the entire wall, formed thanks to the open terrace. The central place in the dining group is occupied by the Dining Desk Draenert table made of natural marble, and the classic crystal chandelier Scheherazade9624 from Schonbek acts as an accent.

The relaxation area is visually separated from the kitchen-dining room by a double Cassina leather sofa and a sloping roof, under which there are indoor plants, decorative vases and the already mentioned snow-white head of Nefertiti.

In the kitchen area, all the furniture from the Eggersmann factory is built into the wall, and for breakfast, a light snack or chatting with friends while cooking, there is a bar counter with four high chairs, separating the work area from the rest of the space.

The transition from the public area to the private one and from the bedroom to the bathroom is accomplished through a large hall. It was decided to decorate it in the style of the facades of Italian houses, reflecting the concept of the Italian Quarter residential complex in classical elements: door portals, wall panels imitating the entrance to the building, and wall decoration with Microcemento decorative plaster.

At the same time, the hall does not look strictly classical: there is a place for modern details, for example, the Fortuny floor lamp from the Italian factory Pallucco, and a hand-made black stool made of solid oak Devina Nais.

The color scheme of the bedroom as a whole follows the general black and white theme, and the use of natural materials brings a feeling of comfort to the interior and makes it interesting due to the variety of textures. The stylistic concept of this room is a loft space on the attic floor, in which the ideology of minimalism is combined with objects of Italian art and classical elements.

The central place in the bedroom is occupied by a large bed. On the sides there are industrial Manhattan tripod floor lamps with wooden tripod bases. In the middle of each there is a brass hinge, which allows you to adjust the convenient height of the lamp.

The bedroom is divided into two functional areas, and hidden niches contain a dressing room and storage space.

One of the main highlights of this apartment is the terrace, which offers a beautiful view of Moscow. When decorating it, the designer decided to combine several elements in one space: air, fire, embodied in the bio-fireplace built into the bar counter, and water flowing down the stone fence of the terrace. The result was a small but very cozy place to relax.

The main bathroom has a light and rather warm color scheme. For finishing, the designer chose Art Skin tiles from Cotto D'este and natural wood (tinted pine). The sink is made of custom marble, all the plumbing is by Antonio Lupi.

To finish the second bathroom, we used decorative plaster and plumbing fixtures from Duravit and Hansgrohe (shower system). An interesting element of the interior of this bathroom was a large mirror that spanned the entire wall.

Tips from interior designer Stepan

• The textures of natural materials: stone and wood will help make the interior of your apartment cozy and more interesting.
• If you do not want to distract attention from the decor of the public area with a kitchen set, hidden facades and built-in appliances will come to your aid.
• A white ceiling allows you to fill the space with light, and the flooring will stand out even more against its background. This technique creates the feeling that there is no ceiling.
• Do you want to use a black lamp in your interior, but does it seem bulky and heavy? Choose models with a light frame structure: they neutralize this feeling.

In this interior we used

Public area:

• kitchen - Eggersmann (Germany);
• lamps in the kitchen area - Vibia (Spain), MATCH lighting system;
• dining table - Draenert (Germany);
• crystal chandelier - Schonbek (USA), model Scheherazade9624;
• leather sofa – Cassina (Italy);
• textile sofa – Pianca (Italy);
• windows, floor and wall coverings - Barausse (Italy).

Hall:

• floor lamp - Pallucco (Italy), Fortuny model;
• stool – Devina Nais (Italy);
• finishing - decorative plaster Microcemento (Spain).

Bedroom:

• bed - Lema (Italy);
• lamps - Manhattan tripod floor lamp (UK).

Bathroom:

• plumbing - Antonio Lupi (Italy);
• the sink is custom made;
• heated towel rail - Brem (Italy);
• tile - Cotto D'este (Italy), Art Skin model;
• door with hidden frame - Movi (Italy).

Bathroom:

• heated towel rail - Zehnder (Germany);
• plumbing - Duravit (Germany);
• shower system - Hansgrohe (Germany);
• door - Barausse (Italy).

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Availability of new housing formats: boldly, foreign-style...

...We have heard from those who have already bought an apartment in this complex about unusual attic floors. Allegedly, the apartments on the last, fourth, floor are attics, the ceiling height of which is from 3 to 4.8 meters. Clients quickly saw through the charm of the non-standard ceiling, and began to arrange mezzanines and even half-floors in the housing purchased at the top floor.

“Yes, quite unexpectedly, it was the attics that began to sell out best for us,” our accompanying person did not hide. - And now we no longer have them for sale in finished houses.

It is curious that new housing formats - lofts, apartments with panoramic glazing, two-level apartments, apartments with a private front garden on the ground floor - are now selling better everywhere. This is understandable. We are not spoiled by such formats. I want something unusual.

Rating: availability of different housing formats - excellent

Advantages and disadvantages of an apartment on the top floor

First, of course, about the advantages:

• You are guaranteed an excellent view if there is no similar high-rise building ahead.
• Mosquitoes? No, we haven't heard. Insects prefer to annoy people living on the floors below.
• The problem with machine noise and dust is eliminated. Especially if high-quality windows are installed.
• An apartment on the top floor, as a rule, receives more light, which allows you to save on artificial lighting.
• Protection from intruders - no one will definitely get into your apartment from the side of the window.
• The absence of neighbors above, and with them noise, stomping and other irritants.

As for the disadvantages, the points listed below will not necessarily be present in every home. It all depends on the specific apartment. But the most common problem is the roof, which can cause leaks, freezing and increased temperature in the apartment in the summer. What other difficulties might arise?

• An elevator breakdown will bring out your inner athlete. But older people, disabled people and those experiencing temporary health problems will have a hard time. Plus, the sound of the elevator moving in the shaft will be heard constantly. High-quality sound insulation will help smooth out this nuance.
• Potential hazard of falling out of window. Be extremely careful if there are small children and animals in the house.
• Poor view of what is happening on the site in front of the house.
• Insufficient water pressure is a problem that is relevant both for secondary housing and for new buildings. It all depends on the integrity of the management company.
• The presence of a garbage chute as a source of unpleasant odors rising upward from the lower floors.

Important! At the time of purchasing an apartment in a new building, the elevator may still be in a “frozen” state - not put into operation. Therefore, building materials and furniture will have to be carried manually. An alternative option is to contact a company for a comprehensive turnkey repair service, whose workers will not only purchase and deliver materials, but will also throw away the garbage upon completion of the work.

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Sales office: are prices “adjusted” to suit the client?

We returned to the office inspired. "Granel" builds quickly and with sufficient quality - by the end of 2018, the first quarter of 2019, they are already promising the keys to a new apartment.

The most important moment has arrived - discussing the cost of housing. We learned from the company's website - yes, in fact, this information is also on billboards located almost along the entire Yaroslavskoe Highway - that the minimum cost of housing from the developer is from 1 million. 400 thousand rubles. Accordingly, these are studios under construction. There is also a more expensive option - 1 million 889 thousand rubles. (studio area 25 sq. m.). One-room apartment with an area of ​​33 sq. m without finishing at the construction stage can be purchased for 2 million 194 thousand rubles. But at the sales office they told us slightly different numbers, higher ones, without even offering an inexpensive price option as a starting one.

There are serious differences - on the website and in the voice-over of the sales manager - the prices for apartments with finishing, which will be rented in building No. 32. So, on the website: studio with finishing - price 2 million. 178 thousand rubles. (they told us 2 million 300 thousand). One-room apartments with finishing on the website - 2 million 801 thousand rubles. (we were told 3 million 100 thousand rubles), two-room apartments with finishing - 3 million 798 thousand rubles. (they told us 4 million rubles). It is unlikely that this was done out of malicious intent. Most likely, the manager chose housing with the maximum area, without even focusing the client’s attention on more accessible, inexpensive options.

Note that prices here vary greatly, depending on the number of floors, and, of course, square footage. By the way, they didn’t talk to us about discounts, although today developers everywhere create “discount” packages for real estate.

But they offered to take out a mortgage loan - a representative of Sberbank turned out to be in the office. But not at 7% per annum, which Sberbank now offers for many real estate projects, but at 9%. They explained: they say, even if you manage to get a loan at 7%, it will not cost you less. Because in this case the developer himself will raise the price of your home. In short, they still let us in on some fog here.

Rating: The company's friendly marketing policy is excellent, its actual implementation is good with a minus.

How to privatize the attic above your apartment?

The preparatory process before privatizing the attic above your apartment will be the collection of documents necessary for it.
This includes a request for an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate about the existence of a valid ownership right: thanks to it, you can find out who owns the attic space and under what conditions. If there is already an owner, then such premises can be purchased. In addition, the attic can be used for rent or gratuitous (free) use. The last option is the most convenient and simplest possible, because... its implementation requires the consent of not all apartment owners, but only two-thirds.

You should also know that if a major renovation is planned in the house, then a ban is imposed on registering the attic space as property.

One of the important and interesting points of privatization is its timing.

It is impossible to find out the exact dates, since in addition to the documents and the established deadlines for their delivery to the customer (applicant), there are documents, the receipt of which may take six months or more (consent of the owners of residential premises). Repairing the attic space, as well as eliminating deficiencies identified during special inspections and checks by services and departments, will also require time expenditure.

Where to go?

To find out about the presence of utilities in the attic, you should contact the following inspections::

• Housing Inspectorate;
• Fire supervision;
• Gas service;
• Architectural department of the local administration, etc.

It’s better to start by visiting the last department listed, since there you can order a technical design for the reconstruction of the attic. They will also prepare a special plan for inspection services.

To privatize the attic, the consent of the residents of the house is required.

Technical documents for the attic will be prepared by the BTI.

At the general meeting of the housing cooperative or HOA, it is required to obtain the written consent of all residents of the house for the applicant to privatize the attic. This condition follows from the regime of common shared ownership of this premises and is a necessary condition for continuing the process. This stage is the most difficult, and privatization often stops there.

Next, you should contact the housing committee, which will issue its permission for reconstruction. Often there is a list of services with which the reconstruction must first be coordinated (Ministry of Emergency Situations, gas service, etc.).

After the reconstruction, the attic is put into operation. Then changes are made to the technical documentation (BTI).

In reg. body registers ownership rights.

Procedure

To obtain ownership of an attic space through privatization you need:

1. Check with the housing cooperative or homeowners association for information regarding major home repairs.
2. Order a special technical inspection of the attic space, thanks to which you will be able to find out about the possibility of registering it as property.
3. Contact the department of the Ministry of Justice, MFC and order an extract from the Unified State Register.
4. Conduct a general meeting of homeowners and obtain their written consent (100% or two-thirds, depending on the goals). It is formalized in a special act, which will then be submitted to the municipality. It is better to notify residents in advance (at least 10 days in advance). This will allow them to resolve their questions and persuade them to make a positive decision in advance and individually.
5. Order a reconstruction project from a licensed organization (private or BTI).
6. Visit the housing committee and find out about the services from which consent is required. It is also here to check the project’s compliance with architectural standards.
7. Alternate visits to the specified services and departments.
8. Another visit to the housing committee and obtaining consent from there.
9. If necessary, reconstruct the attic.
10. Contact the BTI to make appropriate changes to the technical documentation.
11. Transfer of the collected package of documents to the registration authority or to the MFC.
12. Obtaining a paper certificate of ownership. This item is not mandatory, because Gradually all documentation is being converted into electronic form. The information is entered into the Register, and then, if necessary (carrying out a sale or other transaction that requires confirmation of the owner’s rights), an extract from there is required. It has a short validity period and for each required confirmation you need to receive it again.

Required documents

The list of required documents for each specific case varies, but the main and mandatory ones will be:

• Documents for residential premises located under the attic;
• The result of an inspection by a special commission confirming the possibility of further privatization;
• Specially formalized consent of all owners of residential premises of the house to carry out privatization;
• Consent of the housing committee;
• Redevelopment project;
• Aligned technical documentation.

Price

The costs for privatizing an attic space are individual in each case.
Cadastral documentation has priority and the cost will average from 50 to 160 thousand rubles (depending on the region of location). If you resort to professional services from privately licensed companies, the price will increase by an order of magnitude, but you will often not be able to win in terms of time. In addition, if it is necessary to reconstruct or repair the attic, their cost will also be included in the cost estimate. In one case, a small repair and refurbishment is enough, in another, a significant investment will be required.