Gorkycondos in Leningradsky District, Kaliningrad

Gorky is a building by developer Kaliningradstroyinvest on Zemelnaya Street in the Leningradsky district of Kaliningrad, ten minutes from the city centre. Nearby are the Upper Lake with its park, the Amber Museum, and the Trudovye Rezervy stadium. The building was handed over at the end of 2022. The entrances are fitted with combined freight-and-passenger lifts, and the facades are architect-designed.

The floor plans here do not follow the usual pattern: the single one-room apartment sits only on the ground floor, the two-room units are on the first and second floors, while the three-room units, the largest in the building (82.8 to 94.8 m²), reach as high as the fourth floor. The more rooms a unit has, the higher up it can be: the top floors of the building hold only family formats.

If you are going to live here

The building was handed over several years ago — the surrounding district is already settled, not still under construction. Kindergartens, schools, hospitals and shops are within walking distance, along with the Upper Lake and its park, the Amber Museum and the Trudovye Rezervy stadium. The entrances are fitted with combined freight-and-passenger lifts.

If you are buying to let

The one-room format here is a ground-floor apartment of 39.8 m², and the next step up goes straight to two- and three-room units, from 66.4 to 94.8 m², for a family. Beyond that ground-floor apartment, the building's floor plans skip over the compact range that nightly letting depends on.

If you are holding for capital growth

The construction-stage gain here is long behind it — the building was handed over in 2022. It is low, up to four storeys, and the choice of floor plans is small, so resales will be few, but the settled district and the closeness to the park and the city centre support liquidity.