Only 4 % of Russians are ready to invest in the real estate
20 December 2007Only 4 % of Russians are ready to invest in the real estate - results of the research have been given by Public Opinion Fund.
Fund’s experts mark, that the level of economic literacy of financial active citizens, thinking how to dispose available means, is not too high today.
On the one hand, people know many traditional investment tools and facts about shares, and with another, citizens are poorly informed on modern realities of the financial market, about an essence of investment activity, about the share market and its institutes.
According to the research, today the investment into the Savings Bank is the most popular among citizens of Russia: 57 % would prefer to invest hypothetical free money there.
18 % of interrogated would prefer investment into commercial bank or purchase of gold, 16 % - investment in shares or storage of money at home, 5 % - purchase of land, 4 % - the state bonds, 2 % - purchase of insurance policy or corporate bonds.
11 % have named their preferred variant. 4 % of them have mentioned the real estate, 1 % would be enclosed with available assets in own business, hardly less than 1 % - would buy the car, other would spend this money.
Thus results of interrogation show that Russians are well informed on such tool of an investment of money as investments into the real estate. So, 65 % of respondents know, that purchase of the real estate for tenancy or resale can be repaid, 25 % heard something about it and only 7 % - do not know about such way of investment.
