'New Year: rising prices for square meters in Obrenovac encourage people to move to Belgrade suburbs.'

A growing number of people are choosing to move from the big city to smaller districts. Among the reasons for leaving for Belgrade's outlying districts are huge traffic jams, lack of parking, expensive utilities, and high prices for square meters in urban districts.

People are taking this step because they want peace and quiet when they come home after work. In Mladenovac, a district of Belgrade that is 50 minutes away from the city, the prices of apartments and houses are almost half as much as in Belgrade. Thus, for the average price of a new building in Belgrade, you can buy a large apartment or even two properties in Mladenovac.

The average price for an old building in Mladenovac is 1,033 euros and for a new building 1,218 euros, while on Novi'In Belgrade, the average price per square meter is 2,660 euros, in Zvezdar - 2,314 euros and in Paliluli - 2,153 euros, data from the portal 4zida.

For those who love a yard and life in a house, in Mladenovac you can buy a house for 780 euros per square meter. The offer of real estate in this district of Belgrade is extensive, so the website 4zida.rs presents various types of real estate in Mladenovac - new buildings, houses, plots of land.

For example, currently available for sale is a single-storey house in the village of Kovačevac with an area of 122 square meters and a plot of 14 hectares for 33,000 euros, 7 kilometers from the center of Mladenovac and an hour's drive from Belgrade. Mladenovac is attractive for''investors.

Mitic: Mladenovac is in demand when buying real estate

The executive director of the City Expert agency, Miloš Mitic, says that Mladenovac is in demand when buying real estate, because it is relatively close to Belgrade. He noted that the prices for square meters in Mladenovac range from 1,300 to 1,500 euros, depending on the building and micro-location, and that there are many new buildings here.

"The demand exists, the market is active, they are building, the prices are 1,500 euros per square meter, the average price is 1,200 or 1,300. There are many buyers who, if they don't find a suitable apartment for the money available in Belgrade, choose places like Mladenovac, Banovci, Krnjača, even Jajinci," Mitic said.

He added that people often''choose real estate in Mladenovac, as well as in Banovci and Stara Pazova, because it is close to Belgrade, good accessibility, and they can get a large and quality apartment for an amount that is below 1,500 euros.

"Mladenovac is an active market, there are a lot of new buildings here, just like in Pazova and Banovci. These are places where you can get to Belgrade in 45 minutes, depending on the time of day," Mitić said.

Zivadinovic: The war in Ukraine accelerated the process of leaving for these two counties

Real estate valuer Miodrag Živadinović told Euronews Srbija that the Mladenovac and Obrenovac market has been active for a long time. "Even before the Ukrainian crisis, people were interested in living in Mladenovac and Obrenovac, even at one point Mladenovac had a problem with the supply of apartments, because''Arrival corridors from Mladenovac and Obrenovac are often more passable than arriving from Banova brd or another part of Belgrade to the center,' he added.