REAL ESTATE SERVICES MARKET OPPORTUNITIES IN SAINT-PETERSBURG
The article describes the current status and the main lines of the development of real estate services in Saint-Petersburg. The author‘s own definition of supply and demand on the real estate services market has been introduced. Factors affecting prices for the real estate services have been enumerated with the subject structure of the real estate market being revealed, agents and targets of supply and demand on the market being presented. The article deals with the real estate market opportunities, which demonstrate the link between such factors as demand, supply, price, the combination of different factors as well as factors affecting the real estate market. The main objective of this paper is to describe the real estate market in Saint-Petersburg within a particular history period with the use of the author’s own definitions along with the scheme of interaction between agents and targets of the real estate market. Saint-Petersburg case study has been presented with regard to describing the agents of demand on the real estate market and analyzing statistical indicators of real estate companies’ activities. The author corroborates validity of negative impact as a temporary factor that economic crisis has had recently upon the real estate services market opportunities.