So You Want To Own a Home in the Russian Suburbs or Village?

The time of the Great Reset has come across the Collective West, and you'll own nothing and be happy. Or so your financial masters have determined for you.

Part of this Great Reset is life-long renting of a place to live. You will no longer own any land or a home. This is neo-feudalism of the Western world especially across much of the US, Canada, UK and most of the European Union nations, including the insultingly labeled PIIGS countries along the Mediterranean Basin, where many Greeks and Italians live with their parents or grandparents well into their 30s. Which naturally crimps mating and having children. I regret to inform you, you're not going to be one of the neo-feudal lords, but one of the serfs.

Photo credit above: Green backyard of a Russian dacha

Uploaded to iStock by VvoeVale Aug 2016 iStock photo ID: 585604356

True home ownership has been in a long decline since 2000 and since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has started to collapse along with the related metric of birth rates (that is, affordable family formation) throughout the Globalist American Empire (GAE)'s dominions (we're using that British Empire legacy word deliberately). Even in the fondly remembered by Germans good old days of the 1990s, less than 50% of the native German population owned their homes or apartments--most were lifelong renters.

This is of course especially important for asserting control over the population, removing one of the pillars upon which an active citizenry builds its foundations on. Above all, it divorces humans from one of the primary means by which family wealth has been passed down through generations--through inheritance of land. Especially farmland with an ancestral home and livestock on it.

Americans, who have always prided themselves on their wide open spaces and ability to pull up stakes and move westward or to the more affordable post WW2 Midwestern or Sun Belt suburbs, are now catching up with their poorer Anglosphere cousins. Through a combination of re-introduced liar loans the public thought went away after 2008, often sketchy neighborhoods flooded with illegal migrants where many so-called starter homes are located, and rapidly shrinking affordability when adjusting for real inflation, taxes, and student loan debt burdens, purchasing a single family house for the average modern American has become a broken bridge too far. When many prominent financial gurus such as Grant Cardone are telling impressionable young men that home ownership is a bad deal and they're better off investing their earnings into stocks or crypto, it's often left to childless single women, especially female government bureaucrats counting on lifelong tenure, to act as buyers of last resort in multiple cities.

But the trouble is, human nature including the female desire to marry up (aka hypergamy) and instinctive nest-building plus the shared longing between the sexes for a home of their own does not change. Despite social engineering and the fact that our reigning oligarchs have made it unaffordable for the majority of Americans, Canadians and Germans. For many Westerners, including a middle-aged German buddy of our Publisher, only inheritance of their parents' or grandparents' house can make the dream of home ownership into reality.

Things are not getting better as a result of the 2024 election, either. No matter the condemnation of Blackrock buying up homes we hear from incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., or the hopes many place on Donald Trump to take on the neo-feudal Wall Street oligarchy. Acting through front companies, Blackrock buys out whole new neighborhoods at above market prices, turning new and even decades-old subdivisions into rentals. How can any individual or family just starting out hope to compete with such government backed megacorps that receive essentially free money from the Fed?

Nonetheless, there are millions of Americans and Europeans who refuse to go quietly into the night of serfdom. For men and women who are dead-set on owning a house of their own, a real house made of more than thin plywood and thinner sheet rock, there's still hope. This hope lives on and even thrives in a land of traditional views: Russia.

Foreigners, be they visiting investors or legal residents, are allowed to buy apartments and houses in Russia, as well as non-agricultural land. Foreigners immigrating into Russia can also obtain a long term (up to 50 years) leasehold for agricultural land with a contractual option to purchase farmland upon obtaining Russian citizenship.

As many people who've seen the beautiful National Geographic photographs from 1914 of how the prosperous peasantry lived in the late Russian Empire know, Russian houses historically were built from hard boards or logs. Modern Russian home construction involves homes built from foamed cement blocks or more expensively, using bricks. Quite literally, these type of walls, two feet thick, can stop most bullets and do an incredible job at installation.

While houses, not apartments, in the suburbs of Russia's first tier cities Moscow and Saint Petersburg are expensive, in the average range of $140,000 to $200,000, houses in second and third tier cities are much cheaper. These cities are still highly developed, just smaller, in the 1 million-2 million population range for tier two (for example Kazan, Krasnodar, Ekaterinburg, Rostov, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk) and the third tier cities being less than a million people (Tver, Yaroslavl, Perm, Tomsk as examples).

See also: Basic Cost Calculator for Foreigners Retiring in Russia Oct 2024

All these cities still offer all the amenities of the big two: theaters, museums, shopping centers, restaurants, music and art festivals and so on. Also, it is often easier to get settled, to find schools/tutors and good neighbors.

Photo credit: Green backyard of a Russian dacha

Uploaded to iStock by Alex Potemkin Jan 2022 iStock photo ID: 1366156622

Lets review a few current examples:

This 750 square foot house in the suburbs of Ekaterinburg, recently built out of cement block walls, is selling for $65,000. The price includes a quarter acre lot with room for a "dacha garden" plot or a mini-banya! For that kind of money, in many U.S. major city suburbs, you won't be able to afford a decent sized parcel to put a used double-wide trailer on.

See the above ad from Kazan, a brick and concrete block brand-new house, 1400 square feet. That is not sheet rock in the walls, but an actual cement finishing layer. Many of these houses also featured heated floors. All for $114,000.

Considering that Kazan is Russia's third largest city and just hosted the 2024 BRICS Summit, this is an attractive price--roughly equivalent to what a small Midwestern city starter home cost back in the 1990s.

If brick and mortar suburban homes prove too expensive and one is willing to down grade to a small wooden house in a Russian village, then prices come down quite a bit.

This small 500 sq ft wooden house on a small lot, a new construction, near Tver, which itself is some 200 km (125 miles) from Moscow, will set you back just $36,000. That is the price of a very average domestic automobile (Ford, Chevy or Chrysler) in America.

Now, if you are ready to move to the deeper villages, 50 to 120 km from the cities, houses are nearly free.

An example is this 250 sq ft village house for $8,000. Yup, that price is correct. Where in the US can you buy a new (not rotting and falling down) home on a decent-sized piece of land for that price?

What ever you choose, you will need professional help in set up the transactions, bank account and registration. Exit Strategy World can give you that assistance. We can help you realize your Russian home ownership or farm-leasing dream, from money transfers to property registration.

Contact us: Stanislav@ExitStrategy.World