Analysts noted a reduction in the number of premium new buildings in Moscow

Over the past three years, the number of premium new buildings under construction with a proposal from developers in the historical center of Moscow has decreased by 45.5%. On December 18, Izvestia reviewed the results of calculations conducted by analysts at Plateau Development.

According to the data, three years ago, the Central Administrative District was the unequivocal leader in the number of premium class projects at various stages of construction. In the historical center, developers built 11 premium complexes (28.2% of all projects under construction in the segment). This was followed by CJSC with seven such new buildings (17.9%) and CAO with six premium class projects before commissioning (15.4%).

Today, the maximum number of premium projects under construction is recorded in the Western District — 14 (34.1%). The Southern Administrative District is in the second position with eight similar complexes (21.5%). The Central Administrative District with six new buildings is now only in third place (14.6%).

The volume of supply of apartments in premium class complexes before commissioning in December 2025 is 5,275 lots (+20.1%). In terms of districts, CJSC is also the leader in this indicator — 1,115 lots (21.8%). The top 3 also includes the Southern Administrative District with 1,068 lots (20.2%) and the Central Administrative District with 1,012 lots (19.2%). The Central District is only slightly inferior to the NWAO with an indicator of 1008 lots (19.1%).

"The reduction in the number and proportion of premium facilities under construction in the Central Administrative District is due not only to the shortage of vacant land in the center of the metropolis. The reorientation to other locations, primarily the Western District, is associated with a change in the requests of the target audience, for the Central Administrative District these are exclusively luxury class facilities with an average check of several hundred million rubles," Stanislav Konovalov, a member of the Board of directors of Plateau Development, explained to Izvestia.

According to him, today the majority of premium segment customers are primarily interested not in the established prestige of the area, but in the combination of developed infrastructure, environmental friendliness and the opportunity to purchase an apartment at a reasonable price. That is, clients, as the specialist emphasized, began to pay less attention to social markers, giving priority to qualitative characteristics, even at a relatively reasonable distance from the very center of the city.

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Analysts at Metrium reported to Izvestia on December 13 that the number of apartments and apartments for sale in new buildings in Moscow decreased by 23% in 2025. According to their research, the total number of apartments and apartments for sale from December 2024 to November 2025 decreased from 52 thousand to 40 thousand (-23%). But the average area of apartments in new buildings in old Moscow has reached 63.9 sq. m. This figure is 10% higher than in December 2024, when it was 58.3 sq. m.

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