Самым дорогим городом в мире признана Луанда
08.01.2009 11:44]
Самым дорогим городом в мире признана Луанда
Столица Анголы - Луанда - признана самым дорогим городом в мире, обогнав Токио, говорится в исследовании лондонской консалтинговой компании ECA International.
Материалы исследования подготовлены на основе анализа корзины из 125 потребительских товаров и услуг, в которых обычно нуждаются специалисты, работающие за рубежом, сообщает ИТАР-ТАСС.
Данные приведены по 270 городам планеты. Основная причина неоправданно высоких цен на товары и услуги в Луанде - невероятные проволочки с обработкой грузов в ее океанском порту, а также инфраструктура, почти полностью разрушенная тремя десятилетиями гражданской войны.
Баснословные прибыли, которые иностранные компании получают в Анголе за счет добычи нефти и алмазов, создают повышенный спрос на жилье высокого качества, дорогие автомобили и рестораны, одежду и обувь. Однако большинство ангольцев живут в крайней нищете, и предложение может быть ориентировано на тонкую прослойку своих и иностранных богачей. Отсюда и непомерные цены: в стране по-прежнему небезопасно и сложно передвигаться по суше, безопасно пить воду можно только из бутылок, почти все продовольствие – импортное, отмечает NEWSru.
Поэтому литр молока может стоить три доллара, аренда двухкомнатной квартиры - 7 тысяч долларов в месяц в Луанде - городе, рассчитанном на 500 тысяч человек, но теперь за счет беженцев вмещающем 5 млн. человек.
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Angola's capital Luanda is world's most expensive - ECA
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Angola plans steps to curb real-estate prices
20 Jun 08
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Oil-rich Angola is planning steps to bring down Luanda real-estate prices, driven to records by a lack of building materials, investor interest and soaring population growth, a government official said.
Urban and Environment deputy minister Mota Liz said housing prices in the world's most expensive city for expatriates were becoming unsustainable for ordinary citizens and that the government would build new houses to satisfy demand.
He also said new fiscal measures would be introduced to bring down house prices in a city where a one-bedroom apartment can easily cost $5 000 per month.
"The level of speculation in real estate prices in Luanda is very worrying and makes the life of citizens able to pay low rent very difficult," Mota Liz was cited by state-owned Jornal de Angola as saying on Friday.
Luanda was built to accommodate 500,000 people but has over 5 million inhabitants. The surge in its population is explained by the return from the countryside after a mass exodus during the southwestern African nation's 27-year civil war.
The housing shortage is made worse by a lack of raw materials for construction projects and huge demand for luxury housing from investors.
Rock star Bob Geldof recently criticized Angola's government for building luxury houses that were more expensive than those in some of London's most prestigious neighbourhoods while two-thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day.
The average selling price per square meter in Luanda is between $5 000 and $7 000, with premium space in a prime location going as high as $10 000 per square meter, according to a recent study by Macquarie First South Securities.
Some analysts say the cost of housing in Luanda is expected to come down in coming years with the completion of new apartment buildings in the city centre and lower construction costs as Angola produces more cement locally.
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Angola's Property Market Thrives Despite Crisis
Property values, particularly in the capital, Luanda, have skyrocketed amid an oil-fueled economic boom that came at the end of a 27-year civil war, making the city one of the world's most expensive in which to live.
One-bedroom apartments start at $7,000 a month, and it is not uncommon for expatriates to pay $20,000 a month for something more luxurious. Demand for office space has also been frothy, tripling in the last three years, according to Colliers International, an Australian real estate firm.
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Land of the state, home of the poor
A property boom in Angola's capital, fuelled by oil and diamonds, makes fertile ground for a drive to lift squatters from poverty
STEPHANIE NOLEN
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
September 9, 2008 at 4:09 AM EST
LUANDA — For sale in a mediocre neighbourhood of Luanda: pokey two-bedroom apartment in a Soviet-style 1960s apartment block. Fourteenth floor, elevator last operated in 1990. Erratic plumbing, no maintenance in the past 22 years. Asking $300,000 (U.S.) And that's about all you're going to get in Luanda for $300,000: Any new one-bedroom apartment in this city starts at $1-million.
Luanda recently snatched the title of "most expensive" away from better-known capitals such as London, Oslo and Tokyo, according to a number of international surveys. The tide of petrodollars surging into the once sleepy port has created a property boom like no other.
Office space in the centre of the congested city sells for about $8,000 a square metre. A well-renovated, two-bedroom apartment downtown rents for $15,000 a month. Luanda is squeezed into a little patch of seafront land, and developers have their eyes on every bit of it that is not presently clad in scaffolding.
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08.01.2009 11:44]
Самым дорогим городом в мире признана Луанда
Столица Анголы - Луанда - признана самым дорогим городом в мире, обогнав Токио, говорится в исследовании лондонской консалтинговой компании ECA International.
Материалы исследования подготовлены на основе анализа корзины из 125 потребительских товаров и услуг, в которых обычно нуждаются специалисты, работающие за рубежом, сообщает ИТАР-ТАСС.
Данные приведены по 270 городам планеты. Основная причина неоправданно высоких цен на товары и услуги в Луанде - невероятные проволочки с обработкой грузов в ее океанском порту, а также инфраструктура, почти полностью разрушенная тремя десятилетиями гражданской войны.
Баснословные прибыли, которые иностранные компании получают в Анголе за счет добычи нефти и алмазов, создают повышенный спрос на жилье высокого качества, дорогие автомобили и рестораны, одежду и обувь. Однако большинство ангольцев живут в крайней нищете, и предложение может быть ориентировано на тонкую прослойку своих и иностранных богачей. Отсюда и непомерные цены: в стране по-прежнему небезопасно и сложно передвигаться по суше, безопасно пить воду можно только из бутылок, почти все продовольствие – импортное, отмечает NEWSru.
Поэтому литр молока может стоить три доллара, аренда двухкомнатной квартиры - 7 тысяч долларов в месяц в Луанде - городе, рассчитанном на 500 тысяч человек, но теперь за счет беженцев вмещающем 5 млн. человек.
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Angola's capital Luanda is world's most expensive - ECA
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Angola plans steps to curb real-estate prices
20 Jun 08
TEXT SIZE
Oil-rich Angola is planning steps to bring down Luanda real-estate prices, driven to records by a lack of building materials, investor interest and soaring population growth, a government official said.
Urban and Environment deputy minister Mota Liz said housing prices in the world's most expensive city for expatriates were becoming unsustainable for ordinary citizens and that the government would build new houses to satisfy demand.
He also said new fiscal measures would be introduced to bring down house prices in a city where a one-bedroom apartment can easily cost $5 000 per month.
"The level of speculation in real estate prices in Luanda is very worrying and makes the life of citizens able to pay low rent very difficult," Mota Liz was cited by state-owned Jornal de Angola as saying on Friday.
Luanda was built to accommodate 500,000 people but has over 5 million inhabitants. The surge in its population is explained by the return from the countryside after a mass exodus during the southwestern African nation's 27-year civil war.
The housing shortage is made worse by a lack of raw materials for construction projects and huge demand for luxury housing from investors.
Rock star Bob Geldof recently criticized Angola's government for building luxury houses that were more expensive than those in some of London's most prestigious neighbourhoods while two-thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day.
The average selling price per square meter in Luanda is between $5 000 and $7 000, with premium space in a prime location going as high as $10 000 per square meter, according to a recent study by Macquarie First South Securities.
Some analysts say the cost of housing in Luanda is expected to come down in coming years with the completion of new apartment buildings in the city centre and lower construction costs as Angola produces more cement locally.
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Angola's Property Market Thrives Despite Crisis
Property values, particularly in the capital, Luanda, have skyrocketed amid an oil-fueled economic boom that came at the end of a 27-year civil war, making the city one of the world's most expensive in which to live.
One-bedroom apartments start at $7,000 a month, and it is not uncommon for expatriates to pay $20,000 a month for something more luxurious. Demand for office space has also been frothy, tripling in the last three years, according to Colliers International, an Australian real estate firm.
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Land of the state, home of the poor
A property boom in Angola's capital, fuelled by oil and diamonds, makes fertile ground for a drive to lift squatters from poverty
STEPHANIE NOLEN
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
September 9, 2008 at 4:09 AM EST
LUANDA — For sale in a mediocre neighbourhood of Luanda: pokey two-bedroom apartment in a Soviet-style 1960s apartment block. Fourteenth floor, elevator last operated in 1990. Erratic plumbing, no maintenance in the past 22 years. Asking $300,000 (U.S.) And that's about all you're going to get in Luanda for $300,000: Any new one-bedroom apartment in this city starts at $1-million.
Luanda recently snatched the title of "most expensive" away from better-known capitals such as London, Oslo and Tokyo, according to a number of international surveys. The tide of petrodollars surging into the once sleepy port has created a property boom like no other.
Office space in the centre of the congested city sells for about $8,000 a square metre. A well-renovated, two-bedroom apartment downtown rents for $15,000 a month. Luanda is squeezed into a little patch of seafront land, and developers have their eyes on every bit of it that is not presently clad in scaffolding.
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