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Sparkman & Stephens “Finisterre”

Finisterre Dimensions LOA 38′-6″ LWL 27′-6″ Beam 11′-3″ Design Number: 1054 Year Built: 1954 Builder: Seth Peterson, Old Saybrook, Connecticut Draft 3′-11″ (board up) 7′-4″ (board down) Displacement 18,640 lbs Ballast 5,860 lbs (outside) 300 lbs (inside) Sail Area 713 sq ft Original Owner: Carleton Mitchell

Finisterre was built by Seth Peterson of Old Saybrook, Connecticut and launched in 1954. The owner chose Sparkman & Stephens in great part due to his relationship with Rod Stephens with whom he had sailed with quite a bit on Rod’s NY32, Mustang. As Mitchell himself said “Although it was my privilege to sail with many of the top sailors of the era, I don’t think anyone else combined knowledge of deck layout, rigging and sails. ” Olin Stephens’ innovative design genius, as exemplified by such diverse vessels as Dorade , which revolutionized ocean racing, and the super-J boat, Ranger , and it was easy to see why S&S was the go-to team.”

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GLORY is one of the well-regarded Sparkman & Stephens keel/centerboard yawls, which are slightly enlarged versions of the very popular and successful FINISTERRE owned by Carlton Mitchell. These vessels are known for their good sailing characteristics and spacious accommodations for their length. We feel that GLORY can be well recommended and shall be pleased to arrange inspections.

PLEASE NOTE! The barn where some of GLORY?s gear was stored for the winter tragically burned, and much of her gear was lost as follows:

All of the sail inventory All berth cushions and pillows All the cockpit cushions One of the cockpit awnings The dodger cover (the frame is still on the boat) The mizzen mast and radar dome The mizzen boom The main boom is probably salvageable with a paint job and some rigging The spreaders to the main mast The Windex Loran C antenna The life raft

Consequently, the asking price has been drastically reduced–from $78,000 to $29,500–and the owner is offering the boat at an attractive price for one who is able to take on the necessary repairs and upgrades and restore this S&S yawl to what she should be.

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Sparkman and Stephens Finisterre Yawl

• Designer: Sparkman and Stephens
• Builder: Wing on Shign Shipyard, Hong Kong
• Location: Wales
• Length on deck: 39'6"
• Beam: 11'4"
• Tonnage: 14TM

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Built in 1960 by the Wing on Shing Shipyard in Hong Kong to the Sparkman and Stephens Finisterre design.  She was built for Group Captain Ingle of the Royal Cruising Club and was shipped straight back to England after her launch.

Built from well seasoned high quality teak, this is a hull that will last a lifetime.

In 1981 she returned to the Royal Cruising Club and has been with the current owners ever since, wearing the Commodore’s broad pennant for a spell. She has been cruised by the family and by other friends around northern Europe and the north Atlantic between Iceland, Portugal and the Azores.  She has also been cruised by many young people and, exceptionally, has won the RCC Cadet trophy five times. In recent years she has been based on the West coast of Scotland and is a well known boat on that coast and around the Shetlands.

The Finisterre is a well known design, easy on the eye with good performance and comfortable at sea.  The owners have often sailed her twohanded, the split rig making her an easily handled and manoeuvrable yacht in all conditions.

This is a yacht that has been sailed many thousands of miles in the current ownership and has recently sailed south from Scotland.

November 2020 survey available.

Length on Deck                              40′

Length Overall                               39’6″

Length Waterline                          27’6″

Beam                                               11’4″

Draft                                                4′ plate up.

Thames Tonnage                           14TM

Construction

Carvel planked in teak fastened with copper and bronze to Yacal hardwood steamed frames.

External lead ballast keel fastened with mild steel keel bolts, last drawn in 2002.  Some stainless steel keel bolts aft fitted in plastic sleeves.

Centreplate made from Lignum Vitae lifts into a galvanised centreplate box.  Raised with a manual winch in the saloon.

Mix of sawn timber floors and galvanised straps.

Yacht laid teak deck screwed and glued over a marine plywood subdeck.  Deck re-fastened and re-payed in 1994.

Varnished teak coachroof coamings with a painted plywood coachroof deck

Self draining cockpit with scrubbed teak thwarts and sole.  Wheel steering by a varnished teak spoked wheel with a brass Whitlock pedestal with rod and gear connections to the quadrant.

2 varnished teak gas bottle lockers either side at aft of cockpit.

Bermudan yawl rig on deck stepped hollow varnished wooden masts.

Mainmast new in 1999 made from Douglas Fir.

Slab reefing varnished wooden booms.

Stainless steel standing rigging, mainmast rigging new in 2016, to internal bronze and stainless chain plates.

3 mast winches and 2 pairs of cockpit sheet winches.

Primary sheet winches are electric Andersen 46 which have aided the current owners with handling the yacht.

Schaeffer 2100 roller furling system on the headsail, fitted in 1999.

Mainsail and yankee new in 2015 from Saunders Sails.  Mizzen new in 2014 from Saunders Sails.  Numerous other sails including spinnaker, mizzen staysail and storm sails.

Mercedes-Benz OM636 42hp 4cyl marine diesel installed new in 1970.

Meadows gearbox to a centreline fixed 3 blade bronze propeller gives 5 knots cruising speed, 7 knots max.  Shaft-Lok shaft brake fitted in 2015.

40 gallon stainless steel fuel tank port side under the galley.

37 gallons of fresh water in 2 stainless tanks under starboard settee.

dedicated engine start battery plus 2 x 12volt domestic batteries.  Dedicated battery forward for anchor windlass and dedicated battery aft for electric sheet winches.  All charged from engine alternator.

Installed shore power system with 240 volt ring main.

2 x manual bilge pumps and 1 auto electric bilge pump.

Accommodation

5 berths including 2 comfortable singles in the forward cabin, saloon settee berth, pilot berth and a starboard side quarter berth.

Steps down over the engine box with galley to port and chart space to starboard over the quarter berth.

Galley has a gimballed Neptune 4500 2 burner gas stove with oven and grill.  Single stainless sink with manually pumped fresh water.  Good storage space around the galley, the engine box lid serves as a work surface.

Chart desk folds down over the quarter berth with instruments outboard under the deckhead.

Access door by the quarter berth into the cavernous starboard side cockpit locker from which easy access is found to the engine and steering gear.

Main saloon has a fold out varnished teak saloon table slightly offset to port with U-shaped seating on the port side.  Starboard side is a small settee and a pilot berth under the deckhead.

Dickenson solid fuel cabin heater on forward bulkhead.  Hanging oil lamps.

Starboard side door going forward with he heads compartment to port.  Simpson Lawrence Kentigern sea toilet discharges directly overboard.  Stainless hand basin with manually pumped fresh water.  To starboard is a hanging locker with shelves outboard.

Forward cabin has two very comfortable single berths with drawer storage beneath and a cavernous locker between the berths.  Forehatch above with 6’+ headroom.  Forepeak with anchor chain locker and stowage space.

Full specification and details available upon request

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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.

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Finisterre (S&S)

Finisterre (S&S) is a 38 ′ 5 ″ / 11.7 m monohull sailboat designed by Sparkman & Stephens and Alvin Mason and built by Seth Perrson (USA) starting in 1954.

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Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

S&S design #1054. Included here because the original ‘Finisterre’ has a racing record unequaled to this day for an individual boat (under the ownership of Carlton Mitchell), but also because it set the standard for the beamy centerboard type popularized during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, at the peak of CCA rule in America. Designers such as William Tripp Jr., Charles Morgan and others certainly owed much to this particular boat. It is thought that at least 3 boats built to this design still survive. (2007)

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A Custom 35ft Ferrocement Finisterre Ketch for Sale

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'Sandpiper' my ferrocement Finisterre Ketch is a custom-built, Samson adaptation of the famous Sparkman & Stephens ocean racer 'Finisterre' , incorporating Annapolis racer-cruiser innovation and traditional Skipjack lines.

Built by a NASA engineer at Middle River, Maryland, in 1972, her 12-tonne displacement puts her 5 tonnes lighter than the original wooden hull she was based on. Her strength comes well-tested by extensive cruising, and she has been carefully maintained with five haulouts over the past fifteen years.

Presently docked in New Bern, North Carolina, 'Sandpiper' is fitted-out for liveaboard life in the tropics.

Having never left Chesapeake before 2005, she was campaigned to the Caribbean Islands in 2010-15, and has been found to be ideally suited as a live-aboard cruiser, with good headroom (6' throughout), and airy living quarters.

Her 4ft shoal draft with the (5') centreboard up (9' when down) allows her to explore local creeks, rivers and inlets unavailable to other boats.

We have upgraded the systems for blue-water cruising, and have lived aboard along the US east coast and north west Caribbean destinations. 'Sandpiper' has been lovingly maintained and upgraded throughout our nineteen years of ownership - we have worked on her regularly and have recently finished a comprehensive refit with many upgrades (AIS, Power Bank, etc).

Most of all, we want her to be loved, so we are looking for the right price for the right owner's budget.

Accommodations

Her accommodations are simple. Aft, there’s a navigation station to starboard and an aft pipe-berth.

The galley is to port with a Force 10 safety-rated propane stove, large ice box/fridge, and plenty of space and storage.

Her main saloon includes port and starboard settees with a table, and pilot/pullman berths port and starboard, and further storage outboard to port and starboard. The head is abaft, to starboard.

The forepeak has a double berth to port, and storage for storm rodes, drogue and chain.

There’s additional storage forward for anchor rodes, etc and further storage (under the cockpit) contains tools and spares, snorkel and fishing gear, as well as comfortable access to transmission, fuel tanks and steering.

Underfloor Engine is easily accessible from front, rear and top.

Measurements

Length Overall: 38'0"

Length on Deck: 35'0"

Beam: 11'3"

Draft: 3'11" (9'0" with centreboard down)

Displacement: Net 12 T

Ferrocement Hull & Decks

Hull and decks are ferrocement. Marine plywood bulkheads are bolted to ferrocement web frames that are integral to the hull. Fiberglass covered marine plywood cabin and cockpit are bolted to the decks.

• Armature 0.225" spring steel rods run longitudinally on 2" centers
• 0.25" high carbon steel rods run girth-wise on 3" centers
• 1/4" square mesh, 2 layers inboard, 1 layer outboard
• Web Frames rod and mesh tack welded to armature
• Engine Bed - ¼" steel plate self-contained custom bed, integral stringers lag-bolted to oak posts welded and glassed to armature.
• Portland Cement with pozzolan.

• Cabin and Cockpit 3/4" marine plywood covered with fiberglass cloth
• Keel-mounted skeg rudder, with lower cutless-style shoe (¼" 316). 316 stainless steel rudder jaws to 2.5" rudder-post, with nylon upper bearing, stern-post sleeved in fibreglass inside galvanized tube
• Drop-Keel Centreboard 5'0" - fibreglass on ply with lead and stainless steel structure
• Bow pulpit in 316
• Mast 43'0" aluminum, deck-stepped, Metalmast Marine
• Chainplates 316 SS 1/4" bar stock
• Standing Rigging 9/32" SS wire rope with 1/2" SS turnbuckles
• 2" teak platform and 2 bow rollers integrated (rebuilt 2019)

• Plath/Simpson Lawrence bronze windlass.
• Spare mast-mounted Lewmar halyard winches
• Barlow self-tailing sheet winches in cockpit.

Sails & Engines

• 6 sails - working jib, storm jib, 120 Genoa, drifter, main (2 reefs), mizzen (2 reefs), mizzen staysail
• Yanmar 3HM35F
• Protected Shaft and Propeller: PYI dripless seal on 1¼" 322 stainless shaft, refitted with new donut in 2022.
• Mercury 5hp outboard and West Marine Dinghy
• (Unfitted) Profurl roller headsail furling

Tanks & Sanitation

• Diesel - Two fuel tanks holding 40 gallons fuel in total. Three jerry cans with 15 extra gallons.
• Propane: Two Aluminium 20lb tanks, with cutoff sensor.
• Three water bladders with capacity for 420 litres of water. (extra water storage in jerry cans)
• Holding tank 10 gallons, plastic
• Jabsco manual head

Communications & Navigation

• Self-steering Navico/Raymarine WP5000 Wheel Pilot
• (Unfitted) Hasler windvane
• Depth/Speed - Raymarine st60 Seatalk with repeater
• GPS Garmin 210 plotter
• SSB radio ICOM 600 with AT150 Tuner
• Radar: Autohelm/Raymarine ST50
• Standard Horizon GX2150 VHF with AIS
• Standard Horizon HX890 Handheld VHF/GPS

• Force 10 stove in galley two burner with grill and oven.
• Force 10 stainless propane grill/barbecue on deck/pushpit.
• Large capacity well-insulated ice chest (with 5 amp 12v Cold Machine Refrigeration)

Ground tackle

Heavy-duty ground tackle (45lb CQR, 35lb Danforth and a Mud/Maxx Anchor,) 200ft ⅜ chain, 200ft of rode, Parachute Drogue/Sea Anchor, and 600ft of storm rode.

• 2010 rewire, LED lights throughout (excepting halogen spreader light)
• 300w AirBreeze Wind generator
• 150w Solar panels
• 80amp alternator
• 110v 30A shore power system with breakers/outlets
• 600 house battery Amp hours
• 100 a/h starting battery
• 2 Kw Inverter
• Solar charge controller
• Guest ChargePro 5/5 battery charger
• Propane isolator system

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Finisterre ss

The finisterre ss is a 38.5ft masthead yawl designed by sparkman & stephens and built in wood planked since 1954., 4 units have been built..

The Finisterre ss is a very heavy sailboat which is a reasonably good performer. It is reasonably stable / stiff and has an excellent righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a bluewater cruising boat.

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Carleton Mitchell, the owner of Finisterre, is the author of the book Islands to Windward. He had developed a sailing style that was not in concert with the era of the deep-keeled, long-ended windward leeward oriented ocean racers. Mitchell had previously owned a 58-foot centerboarder, the Rodes-designed Caribbee. Michell wanted to prove something by racing.

With Finisterre, he humiliated hundreds of deep fixed keel race boat owners by holding the honor mooring spot off the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club from 1956 to 1962, a spot envisioned for a much larger and deep draft vessel.

Prior to the build, Mitchell put his ideas in articles which were criticized, putting him in the awkward position of potential publicized failure. Finisterre was built at the height of custom yacht design. His notion of a vessel that would be like having your cake and eating it to, that would be small enough for single handling, comfortable enough for luxurious cruising, able to cross oceans and fast enough to win races was not popular among the all boats are compromises mindset. The fact that the vessel would be a centerboarder undoubtedly angered many who had worked for years to discredit this foil type.

Pat Royce in the 2000 edition of Royce Sailing Illustrated notes that Mitchell used the swing keel for steering. “The centerboard is down all the way when beating to windward in a light breeze. As the wind increases the centerboard is raised sufficiently to trim the rudder to reduce weather helm rudder drag.” Pg 17

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Designed by Sparkman & Stephens,  Finisterre  is arguably the top racing sailboat of the 20th century. Launched in 1954,  Finesterre  was built by a legendary craftsman, Seth Persson in Old Saybrook, CT for legendary racer Carleton Mitchell.  Finisterre  was 1st in Class and 1st over all in 3 consecutive Bermuda Races (1956, 58, 60) a feat never equaled since. This rather small, 38′ LOA, beamy, bronze centerboard yawl combined speed (especially in light air), seaworthiness and comfort, was a great racing boat in all conditions, and in her owner’s words “..it was as a cruising boat that I felt  Finisterre  was truly a success.” She was comfortable, easy to sail shorthanded, her shallow draft made gunk holing possible. Carleton was a remarkable sailor and yachting writer who passed away in July, 2007 at 96. Soundings Magazine’s October, 2007 had a very good article about him which we have permission of the magazine to reprint.  Click here to go to it.   Later in his career Carleton became interested in power boats. In 1960, the same year he won his 3rd consecutive Bermuda race with  Finesterre , he raced with Dick Bertrum as navigator on Moppie – the boat famous for winning the Miami Nausau Race. For an interesting side trip click here for more.

The 1960 Bermuda Race started in light air but it is memorable for its Force 8/9 gale with hurricane force gusts recorded. Many boats went to survival mode, hove to, laying a-hull with bare poles or running off dragging lines astern. Through it all  Finisterre  carried sail and never stopped racing under her #3 jib, deeply reefed main and full mizzen with sheets eased slightly to keep moving through heavy seas.

Finisterre  had many other racing successes notably in the S.O.R.C. in 1957 and 1958 when she won the Miami-Nassau Race both years. In light air she excelled despite her heavy displacement. Olin Stephens modestly credits the skill and experience of her owner and skipper, and her loyal hard driving crew, for this record of racing success.

When Bill Shaw chose  Finisterre  for the boat he would use as a model for his Shaw 24 he knew he could not put Carleton Mitchell at her helm so the basic design characteristics inherited from  Finisterre  had something to do with the fact that hull #1 , Trina,  won 17 consecutive races! This caught the attention of George O’Day and he told Olin he wanted a fiberglass ‘junior ocean racer’ along  Trina’s  lines.  Click here to see the Dolphin birth certificate.

Good Old Boat

Finisterre  is the greatest good old boat of all time, not only because of her historic racing record, but also for the fact that for every mile she was raced, she was cruised 10. After one of Finisterre’s Bermuda wins, Carlton Mitchell crossed the Atlantic in her and cruised the Med. How many owners of modern stripped-out racing machines would even think of doing such a thing. John Pruitt in Good Old Boat News Letter February 2007

The boat was expensive for her length. Finisterre was fitted with all the racing technology available for a boat of her era.

The Bermuda race was popularised by Herbert L. Stone. Not only was he editor of Yachting magazine, but he was also the Commodore of Cruising Club of America when he gathered 23 cruising type boats to race from New London Connecticut to Bermuda. This was in June of 1923. 20 years later he realised that a great change, not unlike what sailors have seen recently with the AC35, was occurring in sailboat design. And it was occurring because of the Bermuda race.

The 20 years that followed were to see an evolution in design and rig that was to produce the best, fastest and most seaworthy types of small yachts ever built, whose coming into being was to be largely responsible for the utter neglect of the established racing rule classes… Herbert L. Stone, Yachting June 1943, page 37

Stone passed on September 27 of 1955. The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, for the first time in its 111 history honoured a non member by putting its flag at half staff on the day of his funeral. In most ways Stone’s life is summarised by the greatest good old boat, Finisterre.

The Fastnet sailboat race is important in boat design because it has been highly influential in the growth of offshore racing and remains closely linked to advances in yacht design, sailing technique, and safety equipment. The 1979 Fastnet Race is particularly significant because it changed the way yachts are designed after the UK’s worst sailing disaster which occurred during that race. 24 boats were abandoned, five boats sunk, 136 sailors were rescued, and 15 sailors died. Finisterre raced in the 1979 Fastnet Race, which is significant because it was one of the boats that survived the storm that caused the disaster. She is a very beamy, very heavy displacement Yacht with overhangs which provide extra waterline length with heel. Even today her centerboard is rarely mentioned in ocean racing literature.

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House for Sale in Moscow Russia

New house 584 sqm located 21 km from Moscow

• 8 Bathrooms

Mansion 945 sqm 16 km from Moscow

• 10170 Sq Ft

House 720 sqm 5 km from Moscow in the village of Solovinaya Roshcha

Mansion 600 sqm 16 km from Moscow

3-story mansion 1256 m²

• 13520 Sq Ft
• Contact for price

English-style mansion 8 km from Moscow

• 26900 Sq Ft

Wooden house 565 sqm on a land plot of 7600 sqm

• 5 Bathrooms

Townhouse 530 sqm in the very center of Moscow

• 6 Bathrooms

House 750 sqm in the village of Gorki 2

House 900 sqm 12 km from Moscow

• $18,000,000

Modern house 2000 sqm on Rublevsky highway

• 21530 Sq Ft

Modern house 950 sqm 24 km from Moscow

• 10225 Sq Ft

House 1128 sqm 22 km from Moscow

• 12140 Sq Ft

House with a swimming pool on Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway 974 sqm

• 10485 Sq Ft

House 1200 sqm with a swimming pool on Novorizhskoe

• 12900 Sq Ft
• $12,500,000

House 2500 sqm 10 km from Moscow

3-storey house 830 sqm 24 km from Moscow

House 954 sqm 12 kilometers from Moscow

• 10270 Sq Ft

House of 700 square meters 10 kilometers from Moscow

House 1800 sqm in the village of Greenfield

• 19375 Sq Ft

House 525 sqm 10 kilometers from Moscow

House 600 sqm in the village of Nikolskaya Sloboda

House 1200 sqm with a swimming pool on Ilyinsky highway

• 12916 Sq Ft

Mansion 1800 sqm with swimming pool

Mansion 661 sqm on the peninsula in Moscow

Cottage 218 sqm 32 kilometers from Moscow

• 4 Bathrooms

Mansion 870 sqm on Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway

Mansion 2164 sqm 12 km from Moscow

• 23293 Sq Ft

House 542 sqm 25 km from Moscow

House on Rublyovka 17 km from Moscow

• 10064 Sq Ft

Where to Buy a Home in Moscow in 2024

The growth in suburban house prices in 2021 can be as high as 15%. This prognosis was voiced by the participants of Moscow’s real estate market. Housing near Moscow has already gone up in value by 7%, and before the end of the year, this number is quite likely to rise by another 2–3%. The pandemic has changed the trends on the suburban real estate market – the current demand for detached houses is noticeably higher than before the global outbreak of Covid-19, and this naturally influences the cost of residential homes, say the experts. They also note that traditionally, the fall-winter period has always been considered a time of low demand for houses for sale in Russia; however, the opposite is now the case.

Here are the Moscow real estate categories to consider when buying a house in Russia:

• By direction and location (Rublyovka, Novaya Riga, Barvikha);
• By classification ( luxury , business class, economy);
• By development format (townhouses, detached private homes).

When purchasing homes in Moscow, Russia, a good rule of thumb is to select houses within an 18.6-mile (30 km) radius from the center of Moscow. This ensures you will get a well-developed infrastructure, and that the chosen location will be replete with hospitals and schools.

We recommend considering the West, South and North directions just out of Moscow. You may notice that country houses are noticeably cheaper on the capital’s Eastern side. However, this is due to poor environmental conditions – the result of the presence of a number of industrial facilities in the entire East area.

Best Cottage Communities in Moscow

Muscovites with high incomes live in closed elite cottage communities that have their own full infrastructure. Such cottage communities are usually designed by Europe’s best architects, especially contracted for the job. These locations have everything: private English schools, restaurants, shops, pools and gyms, beauty salons and equestrian sports clubs.

The most expensive houses up for sale are located in the Barvikha Hills area (Rublevka direction). This elite location near Moscow even has its own famous brand boutiques: Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Bentley, Ferrari and Harley-Davidson. The least expensive house here costs 1.5 million US dollars and has a floor area of 656 sqft (200 m²). This gated community is just 10-20 minutes by car away from Moscow itself.

We encourage you to consider some of the following elite locations as you decide where to purchase your ideal property: Etude Family Club, La-Mansh, Western Residence, Yusupovo Life Park, Odintsovo, Novaya Riga and Pirogovo. There you will find everything one requires for a comfortable life, at the price of 300 to 500 thousand US dollars for a residential home.

As you choose your future home, make sure to take into account the category of the land on which it is built. Each category has its own taxation rate. Our lawyer can explain all the details on property taxes in Russia to you at your request. Contact us to get your consultation!

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