11.4% Rise In Mansion Prices Registered In Yerevan In Q1

JUNE 4, NOYAN TAPAN. As many as 907 deals were concluded on mansions purchases and sales in Armenia in the first quarter of 2003, of them 233 - in Yerevan. The amount of similar deals increased by 40.6% as compared with the same period of 2002, Noyan Tapan learned from the Government-affiliated Real Estate State Committee Press Service.
The average market price for 1 square meter of mansion houses raise by 11.4% in the first quarter of 2003, while as compared with the fourth quarter of 2002 the index registered a 45.7% rise. The minimal and maximal prices on 1 square meter of mansions comprised of a 250-sq-meter construct and a land plot of 400 square meters wavered from $45 to $990 in the first quarter of 2003.
Meanwhile, in the regions the minimal and maximal price for 1 sq. meter of a mansion with a construct of 200 sq. meters and a land plot of 1,000 sq. meters wavered between $ 15 and $ 110. The highest prices were registered in Tsaghkadzor - $ 45 - $ 110, the lowest - in Maralik: $ 15 - $45. The average market price for 1 sq. meter of mansions increased by 1.5% as compared with the fourth quarter of 2002 in the first quarter of 2003 while with the first quarter of 2002 - by 8.3%.