The article considers the effects of housing construction on the transformation of the spatial struc ture of the Moscow urban agglomeration in the 2010s. A typology of housing projects according to initial assignment of land, area of new housing, and availability of social infrastructure is proposed. Total area of new housing under construction, shares of the residents of Moscow, Moscow oblast and other regions of Russia as the buyers of new dwellings are calculated. From this, the expected increase in population of Moscow urban agglomeration is assessed. To analyze the residential real estate market, zones of the Moscow agglomeration are selected, including its core, inner, and outer suburban belts. The historical center of Moscow and the sur rounding belt of industrial territories are analyzed separately inside the core of the agglomeration. Active housing construction leads to differentiated spatial transformation of the agglomeration zones. The core is compacted by infill construction, redevelopment projects, and, at the same time, externally sprawling Mos cow Automobile Ring Road (MKAD). The suburban area is on the path of extensive development via the building on free areas (greenfield), mainly along transport corridors.
The aim of the study is to identify patterns of localization of housing construction and structural changes in the Moscow agglomeration under the influence of transport accessibility from new housing. The research method is based on the monitoring of multistory housing projects. The transport accessibility was analyzed with the help of Google Maps service, which allows to determine the travel time by car and public transport from housing projects to the center of Moscow. The key factor determining the location of housing projects is a compromise between the transport accessibility of the Moscow labor market, which is largely concentrated in the center of the capital, and the cost of housing. The urge to minimize the travel time causes structural changes in different zones of agglomeration. The reorganization of the former industrial ring along the Third Ring Road is stimulated by the good transport accessibility of the city center. Travel time by car does not exceed 0.5 hours for 77% of residents of new buildings in this zone. In the 10 km zone outside the Moscow Ring Road, the travel time to the center by car does not exceed 1 hour for 94% of the residents of new buildings. The combination of acceptable travel time to the center of the capital and inexpensive housing costs leads to the development of inter-highway intervals. Travel time to the center by public transport does not exceed 1.5 hours for 38% of residents at a distance of 10-30 km from the Moscow Ring Road. The need to ensure for residents the accessibility of the center leads to the strengthening of the axes of settlements along the main transport corridors. On the periphery of the agglomeration, the increase in travel time (more than 2 hours) leads to the orientation of residents mainly to the local labor markets.
Based on the data on addresses of real estate buyers, we assess the investment activity of residents of Russian regions and cities in the primary housing market of the Moscow capital region (MCR) compared to the activity of their labor migrations to the MCR. The objects of our analysis are 149 Russian cities and 80 remaining parts of regions. This enabled us to analyze the specifics of migration and investment behavior for the first time, taking into account differentiation between cities and rural areas, between size classes of cities, and between individual large cities. This enabled us to fill in the gap in assessing the mobility of inputs, i.e., capital and labor. A sharp contrast between settlements of different sizes was revealed in the nature of their interaction with the MCR agglomeration. The intensity of labor migration to the Moscow agglomeration is decreasing rapidly and monotonically with increasing settlement size. The activity of nonresident homebuyers, depending on the population of the city of their residence, varies nonmonotonically, reaching its highest level for cities with populations of 250000-500000 people for Moscow's housing market and 100000-500000 people in Moscow oblast. Small towns and rural areas (except for the Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrugs) are a source of labor for the Moscow agglomeration and show low investment activity in the capital's housing market. Million-plus cities provide a negligible inflow of labor migrants and are characterized by moderate activity in the MCR housing market, close to the national average. Compared to the premium housing and labor market of the City of Moscow, investment and migration flows to Moscow oblast are shifted to smaller settlements and lower-income regions. The attraction of Moscow oblast rapidly decreases with distance, extending to first-and second-order neighbors, while Moscow's influence is nationwide.
Condition and problems of housing legislation in ensuring of the complex development of the territories in Russia in general and in Moscow region, in particular. Conclusion of expediency of reduction and introduction of moratorium on legislative activity in the housing sector. Proved the necessity of the concentration of intellectual and financial resources of the legislator on the elaboration of organizational-economic mechanisms of realization of already created economic-legal environment of functioning and development of the housing market. Offered measures in the field of improvement of the legislation can stabilize the housing market significantly.
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