In an interview for www.cre.ru, Margarita Zayeva, head of the retail real estate department at ILM, talks about the benefits of investing in retail real estate, the difference between the capital and regional markets, and the strategies of shopping center owners. - Margarita, is it profitable to invest in commercial real estate now? - When choosing between investments in different types of real estate, it is worth remembering that trading traditionally shows the highest return - 10-12% per annum. The debt burden of developers is forcing them to unprecedentedly reduce sales rates. The macroeconomic and political situation in the country is forcing a number of businessmen to get rid of their Russian assets. Retail chains, realizing the opening opportunities for the development and scaling of a business, attract funds by selling real estate assets, which can create opportunities for the acquisition of speculative objects. The institutional investor in the current market has finally received that choice of quality supply, which was not presented until 2016. - What is the fundamental difference between the developers of commercial real estate in the capital and the regions of Russia? - The retail real estate market in Moscow is close to saturation, while in some regions there is a prospect in terms of building new retail properties. For example, take the cities of the Urals, such as Perm, - here the provision of retail space is 170 sq.m. per 1 000 people. There is still a great potential in the capitals of the Caucasian republics - there is generally difficult to talk about the level of provision with high-quality retail space, since in most cities there are no quality shopping centers. - What will the current situation in the retail real estate market lead to? - The situation will lead to the fact that objects that are less compliant with the requirements of end users - by location, availability of necessary engineering, design features of buildings, a number of recently introduced objects in which the main pool of tenants has not yet formed, objects with aggressive leverage -  will not claimed by the end user - a retail operator, a restaurant, a bank, or a service company. Read the full interview Posted by www.cre.ru

Yury Yudakov, ILM Corporate Relations Director In just two and a half years, the market of high-quality office premises in the loft style in Moscow due to the reconstruction of large objects and the construction of new projects has grown significantly and amounted to 172,500 square meters. In 2014, 67,800 sq. m.  of office space, and in 2015 - 75,800 sq. m. The volume of office space expected to be commissioned before the end of 2016 is planned at 28,900 sq. m.  Currently, the share of lofts in the total volume of the market for quality office space in Moscow is 5% in 53 properties with a total area of ​​970,000 sq. m. Of them vacant 15%. In addition to the classic lofts in the office market, new objects are also present and appear, which only partially fall under the category of the latter. A reasonable question arises: how to define the boundaries between the pseudo-and the real loft? It is worth saying that at the legislative level the concept of «loft» is not fixed. The criteria for determining a loft, as well as the characteristics of objects, conditionally dividing them into classes A, B, and C, are a kind of established consensus of opinions of the main market players. A classic loft is a former production facility, a factory building or a manufactory with its preserved architectural style and, most importantly, history. The height of the ceilings, as a rule, is 5-7 meters, the space is not divided by partitions, the room has large opening windows and wide pitch of columns. Due to the fact that there is a drop in demand in the office market, many developers repurpose lofts into housing and sell them as apartments. Despite the general decline in demand for offices, office lofts remain in demand among tenants. Historically, the main tenants of lofts were media companies, advertising agencies, architectural bureaus, educational centers. Currently, the share of office lofts from the media and IT sector in the Moscow market is 26%, and the service sector is 23%. 18% are trade companies, 11% are production companies. Rental rates for class A lofts can reach 50,000 rubles. for the quarter. m per year. In addition to its location and distance from the metro, the atmosphere and organization of the community also affects the cost of a loft. The presence of cafés and coffee houses on the ground floors, as well as a high degree of “greening of projects”, gives lofts the necessary vivacity and movement. Creativity goes beyond office walls, even if it is the walls of the original loft. Read the full article Posted by www.cre.ru  

September 20-22, in the «Crocus Expo» IEC in Hall 13 of Pavilion 3, the annual international exhibition of warehouse equipment and systems, material handling equipment and warehouse automation equipment will be held, bringing together leading players in the market of warehouse equipment and real estate. The business program of the exhibition includes a forum, the main topic of which will be effective warehouse management. Key issues for discussion: optimization of the warehouse and personnel, ways to reduce costs, improving the level of logistics services, improving the performance of the warehouse. On the first day of the forum, Alexander Perfilyev, Partner, Director of the Department of Warehouse and Industrial Real Estate ILMRussia, head of the online project Skladium.ru, will speak. The stated theme of the speech is «Utilization in Logistics. The next stage in the optimization of processes», in which Alexander will tell how uberization reached the logistics industry, about living examples of the phenomenon in the Russian logistics market, as well as about the impact of the new trend on logistics companies and business processes. The speech will take place on September 20th. Register for the event here.