It would seem that we live in the same country. And all Russians should have the same living conditions, plus or minus. But in practice it turns out differently for some reason.
We will not say anything about the spread of wages - it all depends on the number of large enterprises in the region and the shortage of workers: residents of either the center or the industrial north of the country benefit. Product prices in the regions are adjusted not only to logistical difficulties, but also to average salaries. But here's a communal apartment! The utility service does not depend on all this.
Tariffs are different everywhere
What does it depend on then?
Each region is free to set tariffs for utility services independently, but within the framework specified by law. For example, the Federal Tariff Service sets the maximum permissible tariff growth index for the year. And the cost of one cubic meter or kilowatt of the required resource depends on both climatic conditions and the wear and tear of the system. For example, delivering water through rotten pipes will bring a lot of losses to the water utility, and a lot of effort and money will be spent on frequent patching of holes and cracks. We decided to compare how big the difference is in utility bills in different parts of our vast country. To make it easier to compare the indicators, we compared them with average salaries in the region. For analysis, we selected 12 cities with a population of over 500 thousand people. Our two capitals were not ignored, and both the south of the country and the north (and also the east and west) were compared.
It is worth mentioning here that the prices indicated are on average, since within the same city there can (and usually operate) several providers of utility services, and each has its own tariffs.
In addition, some difficulties arose with the prices of hot water
: in some regions, the water tariff is set per cubic meter, and in others - per gigacalorie (unit of energy required to heat a cubic meter of water), so the price per cubic meter varies depending on the number of floors of the house, the thickness and material of the walls.
The same thing is happening with heating
- although they are always calculated by gigacalories, the number of gigacalories needed varies depending on the climate (in cold latitudes it will take more energy to heat one cubic meter of cold water than in warm latitudes), and in general in the north the heating season lasts longer than in south, and the cost of utilities ends up being higher.
How much does it cost to pay utilities in a 2-room apartment in 2021?
For residents of apartment buildings, when calculating the payment, the area of not only their own living space is taken into account, but also common spaces, inter-apartment stairwells, the staircases themselves and basements, which are also heated during the heating season.
The following data is used to calculate the accrual:
- gigacalorie consumption standard;
- total area (area of the apartment + area of common premises, divided by the number of apartments in the building);
- duration of the heating season (for example, 7/12);
- heating company tariff.
The tariffs adopted by the company supplying heat energy are applied when paying for resources for the needs of the population by the management company, regardless of whether the company is an individual entrepreneur or represents another legal form. At the same time, tariffs for residential and non-residential premises are the same.
The calculation is made on the basis of the standard, if the house does not have communal and apartment meters, or on the basis of actual consumption, if there are meters in the house.
To understand how utility bills are calculated, you should find out for what and from what calculation the payment is made . The first is the types of services, they are:
- communal;
- housing.
The first consists of supplied resources, which is almost 70% of the total amount. Consumption per unit is paid at tariffs approved by local authorities. This happens once a year. It doesn’t matter who the payer is: the owner or the tenant. Payments are calculated according to established rules.
If the owner has installed meters in the apartment, the readings taken from them are used in the calculation. But if they are not there, the calculation is made according to the standards.
For gas, water and sewerage, electricity, payment is carried out according to the meters. And the heating fee will be based on the square footage of the housing.
If we talk about housing services, then this is the maintenance of houses with a large number of apartments. This includes premises that are not the property of citizens: elevators, garbage chutes, staircases, etc. All apartment owners bear equal responsibility for these territories. Services are paid based on the area of the apartment.
Thus, both types are included in one payment that apartment owners receive monthly.
Each homeowner is responsible for ensuring that payments to all service providers are received on time. There are 3 ways to force registered citizens to pay for services:
- Personal accounts section. This option is appropriate if we are talking about relatives.
- Threaten with expulsion.
- Write a claim to a judicial authority.
The last 2 methods are appropriate for tenants. The owner of the property can unilaterally terminate the contract at any time due to debt on utility bills.
IMPORTANT! By going to court, tenants will be required to pay their utility debt. But the homeowner must provide evidence of lack of payment.
To do this, you must pay at your own expense. This will make it clear that the owner is forced to pay the debt himself. There are several ways to collect utility debt:
- sanctions;
- lawsuit;
- disconnection of services;
- eviction.
It is worth knowing that if a person pays at least one payment within six months, no one will be able to evict him in the next six months. But this applies only to tenants. As for the owners, if the amount of delay is greater than the established value, the court may decide to confiscate some of the property from the debtor.
It often happens that a person is only formally registered in an apartment, but lives in another place. Payment will still be full and it does not matter whether the person currently lives here.
But you can always prove the fact that a person regularly pays bills at another address of his residence. This is not an easy method; you will need to provide receipts proving the fact of payment. This is done once every six months and for each service provider separately.
If utilities are not paid on time, the homeowner may receive an increase in charges due to penalties. It consists of indicators:
- total number of overdue days;
- of the total amount of debt;
- 1/300 of the refinancing rate.
The day following the billing period is considered late. The refinancing rate may change; it depends on the financial situation both in our country and on the world market. To calculate penalties, you need to know the total amount of debt, the number of overdue days and the refinancing rate.
The total amount of debt is multiplied by the number of days overdue and the refinancing rate, and then divided by 300 . The result obtained will be the amount of the penalty.
It is necessary to understand that the responsibility for regular payment of bills rests with the owners of the living space. In some cases, obligations under the contract are assigned to the tenants.
A clean yard, an empty trash container, a working elevator, a working intercom, trouble-free fire protection - for these and other familiar and therefore invisible benefits, apartment owners have to part with a certain amount every month. Other services included in the receipts:
- home management;
- repair of common property;
- cleaning the garbage chute;
- operation of common house metering devices;
- ensuring the safety of engineering systems;
- contributions for major repairs;
- cleaning common areas;
- water and electricity.
All of the above is just a minimum package of services applicable to old houses. The amount of payments in new buildings can vary significantly, not for the better for the owner.
Large well-kept courtyards, spacious lawns, bright flower beds, playgrounds with modern sports equipment, security and concierge, automatic access system to the territory, 24-hour video surveillance. For these and other indicators of a high level of amenities and safety in new buildings, you have to pay extra. Can residents of comfort and business segment complexes avoid excessive expenses? They can, if the management of the management company or HOA manages the house competently and efficiently - find reliable service providers and negotiate favorable prices with them.
In 2021, housing and communal services tariffs will be indexed twice: on January 1 they will be increased by 1.7%, on July 1 - by another 2.4%. This innovation is due to an increase in VAT to 20% and the associated increase in inflation. And although residents of St. Petersburg have long been accustomed to two-stage indexation, the increase in amounts in receipts, to put it mildly, is not encouraging. Is it possible to somehow influence the amount of utility bills? Or is it useless to fight the bureaucratic system - you need to pay what you are charged? Let's try to understand the situation.
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Housing and communal services tariffs in Moscow will rise twice from January 1, 2021 - from January 1 and July 1 Share:
Rents in Moscow will change twice in 2021 - from January 1 and then from July 1. Photo: Timur KHANOV Change text size: AA I heard that rents will increase in the capital from January. I would like to know how much Muscovites will have to pay for utilities starting in the New Year? Lyudmila Pavlova
. Northwestern district.
Rents in Moscow will change twice from January 1, 2021 - on January 1 and then on July 1. As explained in the capital's mayor's office, this is due to an increase in the value added tax rate
.
Now the increase in prices for housing and communal services in the capital will average no more than 1.7% (see below). At the same time, all existing benefits and discounts on rent in Moscow from January 1, 2021 are preserved. Subsidy
Payments for residential accommodation and utilities are trending upward.
These country statistics apply to all regions
. When calculating, the price for using living space is calculated based on the number of square meters.
Utilities) are estimated by summing up the cost of cold and hot water, heat, gas, and other amenities.
In large cities, rent rates are much higher than for the same area in small towns. The average monthly cost of living in a three-room apartment in 2021 reached 6.5 thousand
.
rubles In the winter season, it is at its maximum. The rent, including utility bills, is finally established under an agreement with the HOA (Home Owners Association) or management company
.
For the calculation, the legislator's tariffs are applied, related to square meters of a specific area.
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→ Create an ad Subscribe to the newsletter In this section you will find information on the dynamics of prices for two-room apartments on the secondary market in Moscow, as well as information on the current price per square meter on the secondary market and an analysis of changes in the cost of a “square” over the past week. As of November 21, 2021, the average cost of a two-room apartment on the secondary market in Moscow was 8,025,926 Rubles, the price per square meter in two-room apartments in Moscow was 205,401 Rubles
.
Over the past week, the price per square meter of a 2-room apartment on the secondary market fell by 3,752 Rubles (-1.79%) The following table contains information on average prices for 2-room apartments on the secondary market in different areas in Moscow and data on the current cost per square meter housing in two-room apartments and changes in the price per square meter over the past week.
As can be seen from the table, the cheapest two-room apartments on the secondary market in Moscow are currently sold in the New Moscow area,
The procedure is specified in sufficient detail by the current norms, and citizens must follow it without fail. Management companies must also follow established standards, and in particular, this applies to the procedure for generating data on utility bills, which are calculated on the basis of established standards.
In this regard, it will be useful for citizens to learn about how utility bills per square meter are calculated in 2021 and how this issue is regulated by current legislation. In the last months of 2021, the Government finally adopted new indices, on the basis of which an increase in payments for various public services provided to citizens should be carried out.
These adjustments did not in any way affect the first half of 2021, since they were planned only for July 1. The most serious increase in payments for consumed utilities was in Moscow, and many residents of the capital are still interested in what the cost of rent in this city is.
.
Irkutsk phenomenon
It is remarkable that Irkutsk suddenly became the city with the cheapest utilities.
What do we know about Irkutsk? Irkutsk is Siberia, it’s more than 600 thousand people living quite crowded. The population density is 2252 people per square kilometer. It is a little freer than in Astrakhan, but much denser than in Volgograd.
But this is not the reason for the cheapness of communal services. Irkutsk is home to Irkutskenergo, Russia's largest energy company. It unites 3 hydroelectric power plants, thermal power plants, as well as coal mines and heating networks of the region. That is, it is the largest energy center in the country
. It is not surprising that electricity costs residents of Irkutsk on average 4 times cheaper than everyone else, and cold water costs half as much. And even for gas, residents of Irkutsk pay half as much as other Russians (there is a gas field in Irkutsk that is being developed by Gazprom Dobycha Irkutsk). And all this despite a fairly high average salary of the population - 41 thousand rubles.
The ratio of the amount in Moscow and the Moscow region
Oddly enough, the cost of maintaining housing in a city in the Moscow region is approximately 30% more than similar payments for the capital. That is why many are interested in the question of how much the rent for a one-room apartment can be in different regions. For example, for Moscow the tariff is set at 3,500 rubles, when a resident of the Moscow region will have to pay up to 5,000 rubles.
It is worth noting that the final amount of rent may be affected by the so-called unified operating tariff applied to residential property. For Moscow, the corresponding figure is 24.5 per square meter. As for the Moscow region, such a tariff is not regulated for it, so each municipality can determine the size at its own discretion.
For all regions of the Russian Federation, the value of the tariff under consideration is significantly higher than for Moscow.
Shoemakers with and without boots
But our hydroelectric power plants operate not only in Irkutsk. the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station,
operates in Krasnoyarsk (and there the cost of a kilowatt of electricity is 4 rubles 75 kopecks, which is comparable to prices in St. Petersburg).
the Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Station
near Volgograd (where a kilowatt costs 4 rubles 22 kopecks).
In the Samara region there is the Zhigulevskaya hydroelectric power station
(a kilowatt costs 4 rubles 6 kopecks). It turns out that for some reason the residents of Irkutsk enjoy the benefits of being close to a hydroelectric power station, but the rest - not so much.
What about our
gas
?
We also produce gas not only in Irkutsk. For example, there are gas fields in Astrakhan, Novosibirskneftegaz is operating in Novosibirsk (although, of course, more oil than gas), the volume of gas produced in Krasnoyarsk is growing. However, in none of these regions gas costs less than three rubles, as in Irkutsk. Moreover, in Krasnoyarsk blue fuel is one of the most expensive in the country
(6 rubles 27 kopecks) - it is more expensive only in Volgograd (8 rubles 97 kopecks), which is located only 300 kilometers from the Astrakhan gas condensate field.
With cold water
everything is also quite strange.
The cost of a cubic meter, as it turned out, does not depend either on the size of the city (in Novosibirsk, a millionth city, water is cheaper than in the small 500,000th Astrakhan), nor on the proximity of large water arteries (however, all Russian cities are located near one or another large river), nor from the average salary in the region (if we take into account the salaries of utility workers). What then does it depend on? But we don't know.
Hot water is easier - on average it is 6 times more expensive than cold water
, that's all.
And the prices for garbage
and completely demonstrate unity and equality. Throughout the country, garbage operators have united in a single impulse to charge 90 rubles per person per month. But we can argue endlessly about the quality of waste removal. At least judging by the reviews on social networks, residents of Kazan are satisfied with the cleanliness of their streets, but residents of Samara are not. But perhaps this is due to the excessive pickiness of some citizens, and not to objective problems with export (who are we to judge?).
Cost of utilities in a one-room apartment
Let's figure out where you have to pay less for utilities: in a one-room apartment or in a private house.
Let's start with the cost of housing and communal services in a one-room apartment with 1 or 2 residents registered in it.
Its area in the example is 35 square meters.
So, how much do utilities cost in a one-room apartment?
View calculations.
As a rule, tariffs for basic types of housing and communal services are set by the city administration. They can easily be found on the Internet for your city.
Let's consider paying for cold water supply. Now this tariff is 21 rubles per cubic meter
.
If you do not have a water meter, then charges will be made according to established consumption standards, they are 5.35 cubic meters of water per 1 registered person
. As a result, we multiply 21 by 10.7 and get 224.7 rubles.
A similar calculation is made for the cost of wastewater disposal. Here the tariff today is 13.6 rubles. At the same time, his consumption rate is always the same as that of cold water
. It turns out 145 rubles a month.
- By analogy, we calculate all other indicators:
- DHW (hot water);
- Heating;
- Maintenance and repair;
- Elevator;
Samara salaries lost to tariffs
At the same time, if we generally compare the cost of a communal apartment with the average salary, it seems that the residents of Samara are in a worse situation. The salary is the lowest, and the utilities are one of the highest.
And of the other regions, perhaps, except for Irkutsk, Muscovites are in the best position. But not due to cheap utilities, but due to high salaries, which level out its cost. However, if you live in Moscow and receive a salary below average, you can only sympathize with you. And probably advise you to move to Irkutsk.
How much money does it cost you to pay for utilities?
What the law says
On the territory of the Russian Federation, the obligation of property owners to pay for utilities is regulated at the legislative level.
Rent is a certain amount transferred to citizens of the Russian Federation by organizations operating in the housing and communal services sector for services rendered, among which the following are worth highlighting:
- maintaining the building in a condition suitable for habitation;
- carrying out repair work;
- provision of other public services.
The direct owner of the premises or the tenant living under a lease agreement is responsible for monthly payments. At the same time, the presence or absence of a source of income does not play any role. This requirement is fully regulated by the Housing Code of the Russian Federation.
The obligation to make payments arises on the day of registration of property rights or conclusion of a rental agreement, including social employment. Article 154 Housing Code Determines the structure of the rent.
Article 154. Structure of payment for residential premises and utilities
Such contributions are made for:
- renting premises from the municipal housing stock;
- use of property;
- housing maintenance;
- maintaining common property in at least acceptable condition - for example, paying fees for ongoing repairs.
It is worth noting that apartment owners pay contributions for major repairs in the future separately. Residents are also provided with separate receipts for housing and communal services.
Where to print a rent receipt - this can be done at the post office or through your home computer. We will tell you how to find out the rent via the Internet in this article.
Emerging nuances
In 2013, the Government adopted a special decision, according to which the installation of individual metering devices in apartments and private houses became the responsibility of residential premises owners. At the same time, to this day, many consumers have not decided to install such equipment, and therefore for them the cost of utilities is approximately 50% more than for those who have been using meters for a long time and have been known to use them.
Many categories of citizens can install individual metering devices on preferential terms. This problem became especially relevant after new legislative norms were introduced in 2015, according to which for those citizens who do not use meters, the cost of utility services increased by approximately 50%. After this, the average cost of rent for water in 2021 was increased almost five times.
If a person cannot install a meter in his home due to some technical features of the premises he occupies, then he should not worry about the possible application of increased tariffs in relation to him.
Utilities in any case must be paid within the terms specified in the completed payment documentation.
Standardly, in accordance with current legislation, utility bills are paid before the 10th day of the month following the billing month, but the general meeting of residents or the management company, by agreement with the residents, can independently change them to any others, considering them more convenient. If a person does not pay utility bills on time, various penalties may be applied to him.
Among other things, we should not forget that citizens have the right to apply for a recalculation of the amount of utility bills if, over the course of a month, they have been provided with services of inadequate quality or if the required resources have been supplied with long interruptions.
