Expensive living and a desire for a garden drive people away from Prague. They also want apartments
After the year 2000, 85,000 inhabitants increased in the municipalities outside Prague. That’s almost as much as Pardubice, for example. “In a longer period of time and in a broader definition, Prague’s suburbanization has reached almost 200,000 inhabitants,” says the Prague Institute for Planning and Development (IPR). While in 2001 a total of 124,000 people lived in Prague-East and Prague-West, a year ago the area had almost 210,000 inhabitants. The Central Bohemian Region also “swelled” by about a fifth to 1.35 million people. The growth of the metropolis alone during that period reached about ten percent to 1.29 million inhabitants.
According to the IPR, people moved most of Prague between 206 and 2009. “Since then, there has been a slight decline in the migration balance between Prague and the Central Bohemian Region, the intensity has been declining for the last four years. how people are driven from Prague to family houses in the background. However, it is still clear that the number of emigrants from Prague exceeds the number of immigrants, “describes IPR spokesman Marek Vácha.
Population growth on the outskirts of the metropolis
Nupaky grew the most, from 95 inhabitants in 2001 to about 1,800 last year. Only a slightly smaller boom experienced Květnice, also in Prague-East. As for the absolute bonus, Milovice is clearly leading. The city, where there was a military district until the 1990s, came over seven thousand newcomers. Jesenice is in a similar situation, followed by Říčany and Hostivice, Královský Dvor and Brandýs nad Labem.
Praguers women from the city for several reasons. The main team has long been a desire for their own family house with a garden. According to sociological surveys, even those from the IPR, for 42 percent of the population of Prague, a family house is a great type of home. People also often prefer living on the outskirts or in the background of the city over a complete and wider center. In recent years, due to the rocketing price increase, it has become a much more affordable country house than a 2 + kk apartment in a new building or an apartment building in the metropolis.
Transport accessibility also leads people to leave Prague, hence the opportunity to keep their jobs in the city and live in its hinterland. However, this attraction is no longer a reality. The transport infrastructure has reached the limit of its capacity and commuters spend daily hours in convoys. In some municipalities, the claim that it supports also ceases to apply because it brings them money to the budget. On the contrary, it is burdened by expenditures on infrastructure and civic amenities.
Developers are building apartment buildings
Due to the high cost of living in the metropolis, they are no longer just looking for family houses beyond its borders. More and more people are buying apartments in small towns and villages. Developers, including those who until recently focused exclusively on Prague, reacted to this trend.
Two years ago, the predominantly regional developer PMS Poděbrady sold out three stages of his housing project in Lysá nad Labem at once. Sales of apartments in Beroun and Vysoké Újezd are currently being praised by the Prague developer Crestyl. “For both of our projects within driving distance of the metropolis, apartments are sold faster than terraced houses or land,” says sales director Viktor Peška. In Beroun, the company is now building both stages of the project with a total of 146 apartments and forty rows and semi-detached houses.
Last year, Skanska Reality bought a large plot of land for residential construction in Libčice nad Vltavou and at the end of last year also invested in a plot for the construction of stone flats in Loděnice in the Beroun region. As she stated, she is necessarily preparing her offer of the most affordable apartments.
