Experts assessed the profitability of long-term and short-term rental housing

It is most profitable to rent a house for daily rent in St. Petersburg, and long-term rent brings maximum income in Magadan. This was told by Domclick experts who compared the profitability of daily or long-term rentals from April 2024 to April 2025 in major Russian cities.

St. Petersburg has become the leader in profitability from short-term rentals, where daily rent of an apartment per year brings 2.6 times more income than long-term rentals (1.3 million rubles versus 509.7 thousand rubles). Moscow is in second place, where daily rent is 2.2 times more profitable than long-term rent: 1.3 million rubles against 595.6 thousand rubles. St. Petersburg and Moscow are followed by Kaliningrad and Kazan: in these cities, daily rent allows you to get almost twice as much income as long-term rental housing.

Short-term rentals, in turn, turned out to be more profitable than long-term rentals in cities with millions of residents, except Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan. Short-term rental housing generates more income in Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Ufa, Voronezh, Novosibirsk, Samara and Nizhny Novgorod. In addition, daily rentals are more profitable in the resort towns of the Krasnodar Territory and Stavropol (Sochi, Pyatigorsk), as well as tourist towns (Pskov, Sergiev Posad).

In industrial centers, as well as cities with low or unstable tourist demand, long-term rentals demonstrate higher profitability. For example, in Magadan, the leader of the rating, income from long—term rentals exceeded daily earnings by 2.3 times over the year, or by 132% (618.3 thousand rubles versus 267 thousand rubles). A similar situation is observed in Khanty—Mansiysk (89%) and Lipetsk (85%)— cities with low seasonal demand for short-term rental. You can earn almost twice as much on a long-term lease there.