The average existing home prices (per square meter of dwelling) in the center of Yekaterinburg (i.e. in Moskovskaya St., Chelyuskintsy St., Vostochnaya St., Dekabristy St., Belinskiy St., and Bolshakov St.) went up 2.19% on January 23, 2007, compared with December 26, 2006, reports the Analytical Department of the Ural Chamber of Real Estate.

The figure rose by 2.29% in Yekaterinburg’s most expensive residential area (Avtovokzal, Yugo-Zapadniy, Parkoviy, Botanicheskiy, Vtuzgorodok, Shartashskiy, ZhBI – downtown and the south-west and the south-east of the city), by 2.15% in the city’s second most expensive area (Siniye Kamni, Uralmash, Elmash, Vokzalniy, Novaya Sortirovka, and Uktus – the north and the south-east of the city), by 1.84% in Apparatniy, Staraya Sortirovka, Khimmash, Sovkhoz, and Lechebniy in the south and in the north-west, and by 2.64% in Shartash, Isoplit, Koltsovo, Elizavet, UNTS, Istok, Shuvakish, Chusovskoy – the outskirts of Yekaterinburg.