Analysts compared the popularity of balconies and loggias in Russian apartments

Analysts compared the popularity of balconies and loggias in Russian apartments

Loggias have become the most common format of additional space in Russian apartment buildings — 36.8% of apartments have them. At the same time, balconies are inferior to them in popularity and occur in 34% of cases, researchers at Sberbank's Domclick analytical center found.

One in five apartments (21.2%) is not equipped with either a balcony or a loggia, the researchers noted. Multi—format options are much less common: two balconies — in 3.4% of apartments, two balconies — in 1.8%, and a combination of a balcony and a loggia - in 2.1% of cases. Apartments with terraces turned out to be the rarest type — their share was no more than 0.2%. Glazing is recorded in only 40% of terraces, while among loggias this figure reaches 94%, and among balconies — 80%.

Among the regions, the leaders in the share of loggias were the Republic of Mari El (66.4%), the Chuvash Republic (61.5%) and the Kirov Region (56.4%). Balconies were more common in Buryatia (72.9%), the Jewish Autonomous Region (69.7%) and the Irkutsk Region (64.3%), where the proportion of low-rise Soviet panel buildings is higher.

The leading resort destinations in terms of terraces are the Republic of Crimea (1.3%), Kaliningrad Region (0.5%), Krasnodar Territory and St. Petersburg (0.4% each). In Moscow, despite the abundance of premium projects, apartments with terraces accounted for only 0.15% of the total.

Balconies are most often found in houses built in 1956-1975 — their share reaches 56%, while loggias in these buildings account for only 7.5%. Loggias began to appear en masse in the second half of the 1970s, and their peak prevalence occurred in 1992-2010 homes - 59.2%. In addition, analysts have recorded the dependence of the availability of balconies on the number of floors: the maximum share — 48.4% — falls on houses up to five floors, and in buildings above 26 floors, only 13% of apartments have a balcony.

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