Pavel Matveev, a native of TNK-BP, for four years from scratch built in Moscow the largest network of personal storage warehouses with an area of ​​about 20 four thousand square meters. m

Founder of Skladovka LLC Pavel Matveev (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC)

Together with other participants in the Russian market of self-storage (personal storage) Matveev wants to teach Russians to store things not on the balcony or in the garage, but in special warehouses located within walking distance from the house. The first personal storage depots appeared in the USA in the 1960s. Currently, their total area in the United States exceeds two hundred million square meters. m, the market volume is estimated at $ 23 billion. In Europe, this service is less widespread and most developed in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, and the total EU market is estimated at € 3 billion. In Russia, the first self-storage – Key Space – was opened in two thousand eight years by immigrants from UFG, but existed less than a year: the tenant terminated the lease, and the business ceased to exist.

A typical individual storage warehouse is a warm warehouse divided into boxes of various sizes (from 0, five to thirty square meters), rented out to individuals (70% on average in the market) and small businesses (the remaining 30%). A tenant may store in a warehouse everything that is not prohibited by law and by a specific landlord. The lease term is from two weeks to eleven months (so as not to register the contract with Rosreestr). The cost is about one thousand rubles. per square meter m per month when renting an average (4-6 sq. m) box for a maximum period.

Warehouse per capita

Provision with individual warehouses, one sq. m per person