For those who want to buy their own housing in the capital and spend the minimum amount, you can buy a cheap tiny hotel room or buy a room in Kyiv inexpensively. Buying and selling rooms in Kyiv on the secondary housing market is relevant, because the low price of this kind of real estate allows you to purchase it both for living and for subsequent rental. No less popular are such motives for acquiring such property as saving money (investing in inexpensive real estate) or the desire to register for a certain status of a local resident (that is, the owner does not actually live, but is only registered – registered in the purchased housing).

In cramped quarters, but not offended

Who should buy a cheap room in Kiev without intermediaries from the owner? Of course, those who are looking for the most affordable housing. This option may be of interest to students and people who have arrived in the capital to work. Often several rooms in one communal apartment are bought by representatives of national diasporas who want to live next to each other. In addition, divorced spouses, as well as parents who are leaving with their children, or, conversely, children who leave the family nest, often want to buy a room in a hostel in Kiev inexpensively. A good option for acquiring this kind of housing will also be for someone who has arrived in the capital from afar and intends to gain a foothold in the main city of the country, but does not yet have the funds to buy an apartment.

The main advantage of this type of real estate is an affordable price. However, if you analyze the ads for the sale of rooms and small families in Kyiv, it becomes clear that prices can vary greatly. What affects the cost of such housing, except for the area of premises?

1. The number and, so to speak, the quality of neighbors. Of course, living space with one neighbor in a typical high-rise building will cost more than a room in a multi-room communal apartment in a pre-revolutionary building, where coexistence with ten people awaits you. Before buying a room in a communal apartment in Kiev, by all means get to know your neighbors: if among them there are drinkers, brawlers, quarrelsome or suspicious people, citizens suffering from mental illness, then you definitely need to look for housing elsewhere. Neighbors – this is an important factor influencing the cost of housing and how comfortable and peaceful your life will be in this place. It is important to evaluate the behavioral characteristics of future neighbors, the composition of their families, habits and the tone of communication accepted in this community with each other.
2. The price of housing is also affected by location of the house. Inexpensive rooms are easier to buy in a hostel in Kiev on the outskirts of the city, while in the center even relatively unattractive housing will cost noticeably more. The proximity to a forest, river or lake can increase the price of housing. In general, housing in a safe, comfortable and cozy area, in a quiet place, will be more in demand.
3. Another – infrastructure. It is obvious that housing in an undeveloped area will cost less, but it is more convenient to live where there are trade, medical, and entertainment establishments. It is also important to consider how far public transport and metro stations are from home. In the future, if you decide to rent a room, the level of infrastructure, as well as the prestige of the location, will significantly affect the rental price (Street guide to find rooms for rent).
4. The condition and age of the house also affect the cost of housing. The fact is that rooms can be purchased both in a classic communal apartment and in a new house, in an ordinary apartment. It happens that the owner of the apartment wants to get a large amount at once and chooses not to rent out the rooms, but to sell them. By the way, lately, some developers are building houses with apartments of a very small size of 11 - 30 sq.m. area, which can be a good alternative to buying a small hotel or room: you can buy a 1-room apartment in Kiev inexpensive in a new house, without neighbors, in a good area. For example, almost in the center of the city, you can buy a small loft in Kyiv from the developer «Loft House Podol» (Loft House Podol) on the street. Mezhigorskaya, 78 (planning of a small area of 10.6-33 sq.m. – a new format of affordable housing).
5. The entrance and the apartment itself, part of which you are purchasing. Evaluate the cleanliness of the entrance. It is important to take into account the condition of the living space, as well as the functionality of public places: bathrooms, kitchens. It is usually quite difficult to persuade neighbors to carry out repairs with common forces and means, so if the taps are leaking and the lights are flickering, you either have to fix the wiring, plumbing, etc. on their own, or live in rather uncomfortable conditions. Pay attention to the condition of window openings, doors, floors, ceilings. Ask your neighbors about how warm it is in the house in autumn and winter, if there are cockroaches, rodents here.

If you plan to buy a room in a communal apartment inexpensively exclusively for registration or as a place of temporary residence , these factors are not very significant. If you intend to live in the purchased housing, rent it out or donate it to a child student / elderly parent, then take the choice of housing as responsibly as possible.

Subtleties of the acquisition

It is important to know

• If you're not visiting for the first time and the neighbors are never home (but they're not away), then you should be wary. Probably, the seller is trying to hide problematic neighbors.
• You need to clearly understand what exactly you are purchasing: a room in an apartment (the owner owns a specific room, its number is indicated in the documents) or a share of a certain footage (the owner owns, for example, 1 / 3rd part of the apartment).
• When purchasing residential property of any type, make sure that there is no encumbrance on the housing (that is, it is not under arrest, pledged, not rented, etc.). It is also important to make sure that there are no temporarily discharged tenants in the premises (for example, serving in the army, in prison, being treated, etc.).
• Sometimes the owner or realtor will offer to conclude a donation agreement, and not purchase and sale (usually when neighbors prevent the sale), this option for acquiring ownership can be challenged in court quite easily, which means that you should not agree to such a maneuver.

Working with Documents

There is such a thing as "first right to buy." This right belongs to the owners of neighboring premises or local authorities (use for a maneuverable fund, etc.), if some room is not privatized. In order to buy a room in Kyiv inexpensively from the owner, you need to enlist the refusal of neighbors or authorized authorities from the right of first priority. This refusal gives the owner of the room the right to sell the room in a hostel in Kyiv to third parties. Such a refusal must be in writing and must be certified by a notary.

If the neighbors do not want to meet the owner, the seller is obliged to notify them in writing of their intention to sell their living space. Registered letters with acknowledgment of receipt are sent to neighbors, they report the sale price. If there is no response within a month, then the seller has the right to sell his property (at a price that should not be lower than that indicated in the notification letters). It is advisable to preliminarily agree on the cost of the apartment with an expert appraiser so that the price offered to neighbors does not turn out to be lower than the price subsequently indicated in the form of an expert assessment of real estate for tax purposes, which is necessary for its alienation.

In addition to the officially issued waiver of the priority right purchase, the seller must provide a passport, title documents (certificate of ownership, papers certifying the grounds for acquiring ownership: contract of sale, inheritance, donation, will, etc.), a certificate from the BTI (assessment of the cost of an apartment indicating the shares of all owners), a certificate from the housing office (certifying the absence of debts on utility bills), an extract from the house book, extracts from registers.

If there are minors among the owners of neighboring rooms (or the acquired housing), then it is necessary to obtain the consent of the guardianship authorities . If the room was purchased by the seller in marriage, a notarized consent of the spouse (wife) for the sale is required.

Historical background

Before the revolution of 1917, separate rooms were rented out. Apartments, where several families lived, appeared at the beginning of the 18th century. However, this form of housing settlement became widespread after the Bolsheviks came to power. Wealthy townspeople were deprived of their apartments, and several inhabitants were placed in each large apartment (initially, the military, active communists, members of the Cheka were endowed with living space). Large-scale industrialization has led to the fact that in the course of "densification" the norm of square meters per person was introduced, if there was a lot of living space, then new tenants were settled in the apartment. Thus, communal apartments were formed, where numerous workers with their families were settled.

In the era of the "thaw"; a course was taken for a new housing policy: the mass construction of houses with separate apartments ("Khrushchev"). But by no means all communal apartments were resettled during this period.

The active resettlement of communal apartments is associated with the privatization of the early 1990s. However, there are still dormitories, communal apartments, «gostinki», living in which is considered quite uncomfortable, but living space in houses of this type is very cheap.

Affordable cheap housing

If you limited in funds or planning to purchase inexpensive housing in order to win some money for some other purposes (business, treatment, purchase of other real estate, etc.), you need to know where and how you can buy inexpensive housing in Kiev.

If you have decided to buy a room in Kiev from the owner, then you can buy housing in a communal apartment or in an ordinary one. In an ordinary apartment, you can buy a separate room if the owner of the apartment for some reason sells his property in parts or if the apartment has several owners (former spouses or heirs) and one of them wants to sell his room (or share).

You can also buy a small family in Kiev at a favorable price. Inexpensive housing in a family-type hostel: with a separate individual entrance to the room - a room, but usually with a shared kitchen and often with a shared bathroom, house series 1-318-35 / 66, etc.). A small family is called both a small apartment - a hostel, and a room in a small-family hostel.

Another option – to buy a hostel in Kyiv inexpensively. If you are looking for how to buy an inexpensive apartment in Kyiv, you can also be advised "Khrushchev" or a little more expensive "Czech" (Czech project).

Where to live?

The sale of apartments in Kyiv on the secondary market is carried out in all districts and massifs of the capital. Apartments – you can buy small families in an apartment-type hostel, for example, on the street. Dneprovodskaya, 3, (Obolonsky district, Vodogon area) st. Getmana, 38 (Solomensky district) or st. Bereznyakovskaya, 16B (Bereznyaki massif, Dnipro district). Everywhere you can find "Khrushchev" and almost everywhere – «hotels». There are a lot of hostels in the capital, where you can easily buy a room in Kyiv – secondary market.

Right Bank:

• In Goloseevsky district you can buy a room without intermediaries in Kiev on Demeevka, in Goloseyevo, in Korchevatoy, on Sappernaya Slobidka , on Teremki.
• If you are interested in the Obolonsky district, then you can purchase an area in a typical high-rise building or buy a room in a hostel in Kiev – Obolon, Minsk massif or Kurenevka.
• Respectable Pechersky district offers "hostels" Nizhny Pechersk and "Khrushchev" Menagerie, relatively inexpensive housing in Pechersk ("hotels", "Stalinka", "Khrushchev", pre-revolutionary houses).
• Do you want to buy capital real estate in Podolsky district? «Khrushchev» ; and «hotels» can be found throughout the region: on the beautiful Podol, on the green Squirrel Field, on the environmentally friendly Wind Mountains, on the landscaped Kurenevka, on the picturesque Vynohradar, on the cozy Nyvky, the Mostytsky massif, provided with transport, on the inexpensive Nyvky, on the quiet Priorka, on the industrial Rybalsky Island (here, by the way, you can easily buy a hostel in Kiev).
• It's nice to live in a cozy and green Svyatoshinsky district. There are several inexpensive houses on Akademgorodok; a hostel in Kiev & nbsp; on Galagany or on the array & nbsp; Svyatoshino, "dormitories" there are on Belichi, many budget options are offered on Borshchagovka. It will not be difficult to find a "gostinka", "Khrushchev" or a room in the  Novobelichi block.
• Solomensky district – this is «Khrushchev's paradise» Pervomaisky and Otradny arrays, hostels KPI, Chokolovka, Solomenka, Zheleznodorozhny massif, etc.
• Shevchensky district – beautiful and prestigious – it's not just luxury real estate. Here you can find options for communal apartments in old merchant houses in the very center of the city, buy a cheap one-room apartment in Kiev on Syrtsa, Tatarka, Nivki. You can buy Khrushchev in Kiev you can on Shulyavka or Lukyanovka.

Left Bank (even cheaper):

• If you are planning to settle in the Darnitsky district, then it’s easy to buy an apartment in Kiev inexpensively without intermediaries on the secondary market. You can find hostels in Kharkiv massif, "Khrushchev" in Bortnichi, options in standard new buildings of the secondary on Poznyaki and Osokorki, "Stalinka" is available on Novaya Darnitsa. You can buy cheap housing in Kyiv at Krasny Khutor.
• Desnyansky district – these are numerous "Khrushchev" Housing in this area is very affordable: even cheaper you can buy a room in the Kiev region outside the city.
• Dniprovsky district pleases those who want to buy an inexpensive hotel in Kiev on the secondary market, because in this part of the city it is easy to find cheap apartments in Kiev. Rainbow massif and Sotsgorod. Affordable Kiev real estate is for sale on Bereznyaki, Voskresenka or Staraya Darnitsa.

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