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Interregional migration, the housing market, and a spatial shift in the metro area: Interrelationships in the case study of Moscow

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  • Nikolay Kurichev
  • Ekaterina Kuricheva

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The mutual influence of interregional migrations, the housing market, and the spatial transformation of the Moscow metropolitan area are studied empirically using the database of housing development projects and the depersonalized database of the residence addresses of buyers in the primary housing market. We consider the influence of natural rent, agglomeration economy, interregional inequality, and distance on the differentiation of the activity of residents of various Russian regions and cities in the primary housing market of the Moscow metropolitan area compared to their migration activity. The main characteristics of the extensive development of the Moscow metropolitan area are the prevalence of large greenfield residential district projects, urban sprawl in the near suburban zone, and the concentration of construction along transport corridors in the middle suburban zone. Selective influence of buyers from other regions on various zones of the Moscow metropolitan area owes to their orientation at the most affordable proposals in the primary market. The near suburban zone is the main gate into the Moscow metropolitan area for migrants, and construction in this zone is a major mechanism of restricting housing prices and maintaining economic incentives for large‐scale migration to the Moscow region. Proceeding from the generalization of factors of the spatial transformation of the Moscow metropolitan area, a conceptual model of interaction between migration and urban spatial shifts is proposed. La influencia mutua de las migraciones interregionales, el mercado de la vivienda y la transformación espacial del área metropolitana de Moscú se estudian empíricamente mediante una base de datos de proyectos de desarrollo de viviendas y una base de datos despersonalizada de los domicilios de compradores en el mercado primario de la vivienda. Se consideró la influencia de la renta natural, la economía de aglomeración, la desigualdad interregional y la distancia en la diferenciación de la actividad de los residentes de diversas regiones y ciudades rusas en el mercado primario de la vivienda del área metropolitana de Moscú, en comparación con su actividad migratoria. Las principales características del extenso desarrollo del área metropolitana de Moscú son el predominio de grandes proyectos de distritos residenciales en zonas verdes, la dispersión urbana en la zona suburbana cercana, y la concentración de la construcción a lo largo de corredores de transporte en la zona suburbana media. La influencia selectiva de los compradores de otras regiones en varias zonas del área metropolitana de Moscú se debe a su orientación hacia las propuestas más asequibles del mercado primario. La zona suburbana más cercana es el principal portal de entrada al área metropolitana de Moscú para los migrantes, y la construcción en esta zona es un importante mecanismo de restricción de los precios de la vivienda y para mantener los incentivos económicos de la migración en gran escala a la región de Moscú. A partir de la generalización de los factores de transformación espacial del área metropolitana de Moscú, se propone un modelo conceptual de interacción entre la migración y los cambios espaciales urbanos. モスクワ大都市圏における地域間移動、住宅市場および空間変容の相互影響を、住宅開発プロジェクトのデータベースおよび住宅の一次市場における購入者の住所の匿名加工情報データベースを用いて実証的研究を行った。ロシアの様々な地域における住民の活動とモスクワ大都市圏の住宅の一次市場における都市部の住民の活動の差別化に対して、自然レント、集積経済、地域間の不平等、距離が及ぼす影響を、彼らの移住活動と比較して検討した。モスクワ大都市圏における大規模開発の主な特徴は、大規模なグリーンフィールド住宅地区プロジェクトの普及、郊外に近いゾーンにおける都市のスプロール化、中間の郊外ゾーンにおける交通回廊に沿った建設地の集中である。モスクワ大都市圏の様々なゾーンに対する他の地域からの購入者の選択的な影響は、彼らが一次市場における最も手頃な提案価格を指向することによるものである。郊外に近いゾーンは、移住者にとってのモスクワ大都市圏へのメインゲートであり、このゾーンにおける建設は、住宅価格を制限し、モスクワ地域への大規模移住に対する経済的インセンティブを維持するための重要なメカニズムである。モスクワ大都市圏の空間変容の要因の一般化に続いて、移動と都市空間シフトとの相互作用の概念的モデルを提案する。

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  • Nikolay Kurichev & Ekaterina Kuricheva, 2020. "Interregional migration, the housing market, and a spatial shift in the metro area: Interrelationships in the case study of Moscow," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(4), pages 689-703, August.
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