BUSINESS

While Ostrava suffers from a lack of flats, the

situation is opposite in Karviná and Havířov, towns

with cheaper costs of housing and decreasing

numbers of inhabitants. How do you explain that?

Besides decreasing number of families with more

children, there are also other trends easy to understand. Young people are eager to learn and earn

experience in Prague and abroad. They leave and

seldom come back. Yet there are many companies

in our region that offer interesting job opportunities.

We can support these incoming employees with starter

flats with up to a 50% discount off the rent. The

same applies to students who decide to stay in the

region when they finish their studies and wish to live

on their own. We collaborate with the councillors of

the region and various town and city authorities to

develop feasible strategies and solve the difficult

situation together, e.g. through the Employees’ Mobility

programme.

Does RESIDOMO consider the construction of new

blocks of flats?

In the long–term prospective we do plan the construction of our own housing estates, nevertheless, it is

not an issue of economic interest in the region at

the present. It may change. The construction costs in

Ostrava and in Prague are much the same, however,

the income from rent will significantly differ. Rents

in Ostrava is of course lower, so building new flats

in Ostrava is not cost–effective nowadays.

Does the main goal focus on looking after clients

and their housing?

It sure does. We want our blocks and flats to provide

a comfortable life. It means that we won’t cease our

efforts to improve the qualities of our housing capacities, we will keep on developing and improving

services offered to our clients. We generally strive to

make the citizens of our region feel happy not only in

their homes but also in the streets of the towns where

they live. We are revitalizing selected localities and

blocks, looking after heritage buildings and monuments in historical protected urban areas, renewing

non-residential rooms and premises as we want them

to be used with reason and sense, to be useful to

citizens. We support small businesses and freelancers,

cultural and sporting events in the Moravian–

Silesian Region. We are a proud partner of Colours of

Ostrava, we contributed to the Olympic Park Ostrava

2016 and Olympic Festival 2018, etc. We do care

about the positive image of our region and we feel we

are an important part of it.

Text & foto:

RESIDOMO, s.r.o.

Jan Rafaj

CEO RESIDOMO

POSITIV 1/2018

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