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Kazakh Residential Property Prices to Fall After Boom in 2007
By Nariman Gizitdinov
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Residential real estate prices in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan are set to fall this year after speculative investment and oil revenue drove property values to a record in 2007.
Prices for residential property last year soared 30.2 percent, reaching a record average high of 161,300 tenge ($1,338) per square meter, up from 123,900 tenge in 2006, the Astana-based state statistics agency said today in an e-mailed statement. In the financial capital, Almaty, the average price was 345,200 tenge.
``There is no real demand for property at this price,'' Visor Capital analyst Yury Khramtsov said by telephone. ``Now that the price is over $2,500 in Almaty, ordinary people can't afford to buy an apartment.''
Kazakhstan's $80 billion economy has grown at an average pace of 10 percent a year since 2000 as the price of oil surged, sparking a construction boom. Kazakhstan holds 3.3 percent of the world's oil. Growth slowed to a preliminary 8.7 percent last year as the credit squeeze in international financial markets led banks to cut lending.
Residential property prices nationwide fell 0.6 percent in December from the month before, the statistics agency said. Prices in Almaty dropped 2.4 percent.
Khramtsov said investors in the property market were pulling out of the market as returns diminish. ``Speculative investors try to keep prices high, but it's unclear how long they'll be able to keep this up,'' he said.
Tight Credit
Some Kazakh banks stopped lending to homebuyers and builders in September, as the collapse of the U.S. subprime- mortgage market made it harder to borrow abroad. This, combined with soaring prices, has made it more difficult for Kazakhs to buy homes.
Tight credit has also hit construction companies. ``The construction sector was growing too fast, and it's good that it will cool down along with the economy,'' Prime Minister Karim Masimov told Bloomberg News in a November interview.
``The deflating of the mortgage bubble may lead to a consolidation in the construction market, which is useful development,'' central bank Chairman Anvar Saidenov told Bloomberg News in November. ``The construction companies that don't have access to credit resources may have serious problems.''
Bank TuranAlem, Kazakhstan's second-biggest bank by assets, said on Dec. 24 that it received $81.2 million from the state emergency investment program to finance the completion of construction projects. The government plans to provide $1.4 billion to the nation's banks this year to help lenders and construction companies that have suffered from a lack of credit.
To contact the reporter on this story: Nariman Gizitdinov in Almaty, through the Moscow newsroom at +7- ngizitdinov@bloomberg.net .