Much can be said about any long-standing company, especially about this one, because reviews about Leader-Invest have their origin in 1993. The company is part of the financial and industrial holding AFK Sistema, and this is also an important indicator in drawing up opinions about the organization’s capabilities. The reviews about Leader-Invest relate primarily to its main specialization - housing construction, which is located mainly in the center of the capital or very close to it and belongs to the business class.
Two directions
The development subsidiary of AFK Sistema is an investor in projects and independently builds residential complexes of business and premium class. Reviews of Leader-Invest indicate that seventy-five percent of MBI (Moscow Business Incubator) shares belong to this company, and MBI controls all real estate in Nagatino i-Land business park. The official website emphasizes the connection with AFK Sistema "as its structural unit, and this holding since 1993 has incorporated many non-weak companies.
This is MTS-Bank and MTS itself, Medsi is a machine-building holding, as well as the entire structure of RTI-System. And that's not all. AFK Sistema consists of Birnofarm (a very large pharmaceutical company), Bashneft, retail chains (for example, Detsky Mir and others), VAO Intourist, as well as many organizations from the field of mass communications - Cosmos -TV "," Stream "and other television companies. Reviews about Leader-Invest note that the development structure in Sistema is also not the only one, but the largest. Sistema Hals was previously larger, but it was lost to VTB during the 2008 crisis.
Chapter
Founded AFK Sistema V.P. Evtushenkov, who, judging by information from open sources, owns a controlling stake in the holding. It is simply impossible to establish the remaining owners, since all securities are traded on the London Stock Exchange, and anyone can buy and sell them again, which happens. Vladimir Yevtushenkov , who was born in 1948, was given the opportunity to receive two excellent higher education: MKhTI named after Mendeleev (1978) and Moscow State University named after Lomonosov (Faculty of Economics - 1980). This allowed him to make his career truly brilliant: from the head of the workshop at the plastic factory to the head of the Moscow City Executive Committee on Science and Technology.
Changes in the country brought Yevtushenkov only good. He created the Joint Stock Financial Corporation Sistema. The result of this man’s activity is impressive: Forbs gives him the twentieth line among the richest people in Russia, and the Fortune Global 500 gave 308 a place to the holding he created in terms of revenue. Judging by the success of the corporation, there should not be weak segments in its structure. This is also indicated by the reviews of the Leader-Invest employees.
What and how to build
The company gives the capital unique residential buildings in the districts of old Moscow. The location is almost always exceptional, the author’s architecture, planning decisions are functional, and therefore people of a certain circle are attracted to customers. Leader-Invest employees mark each new project as the brightest event in the life of this district of Moscow.
The company also builds business centers, improving management standards in commercial real estate, which changes the idea of the ideal office and enables the business to grow most successfully. The company usually selects its employees qualitatively, and therefore reviews about the Leader-Invest employer are rarely adverse. About them will be discussed below.
Participation in renovation
Now the capital is in the grip of renovation unrest, and the company is ready to help the city in its renovation programs. This is the most discussed topic on the real estate market today: these problems are voiced on television, radio, and in the press. The Internet is also replete with the most diverse statements on this subject.
The Vesti. Real Estate portal did not stand aside; at the end of August 2017, a conference was held on Moscow renovation, where both the authorities and developers spoke. On behalf of the capital’s developers, the vice president of the company, Viktor Cherkassky, spoke. In this regard, a huge number of reviews were received about the Leader-Invest company, and photos from the conference passed through all publications.
Performance
In his speech, Viktor Cherkassky emphasized that the Leader-Invest company already has experience in similar programs, and therefore can offer the most effective methods in the realities of today's reality of interaction between developers and the authorities. Reviews about the company "Leader-Invest" among consumers are always positive, and therefore the experience gained must be applied. The main feature of the previous program is the joint sale of housing, that is, not only the city built houses for resettlement of Muscovites from demolished housing, but to a large extent - developers who gave the city the agreed part of the premises in the buildings they erected.
That is why the implementation was at such a high pace, and the resettlement took place in waves: residents were resettled in parts, and while the dilapidated housing was demolished, houses were built according to the plan for the next part of the immigrants. Now the situation is somewhat different. The city took over everything - both construction and implementation. However, according to reviews of Leader-Invest JSC employees, the city is unlikely to be able to sell these huge volumes of real estate. We need a particularly powerful system for sales, government agencies are not designed for this role, and they should not be engaged in this at all. Every business needs to be given to professionals, according to Viktor Cherkassky. Numerous comments and feedback from Leader-Invest employees support their vice president in every way.
About company
Viktor Cherkassky backed up the company's willingness to assist in renovation with information that the experience is more than sufficient, there are many opportunities, and there are good practices for successful implementation of projects in all areas of the city and under various conditions. Only the first half of 2017, the company celebrated the launch of eleven new facilities; in the third quarter, development projects will be implemented in the complex: nine hectares on Lobachevsky Street, more than twenty two in the Nagatinsky floodplain.
In total, today in the diversification portfolio of the Leader-Invest company there are more than forty-five projects - at different stages of implementation or design. Their total area is three million square meters. Among the company’s works is the House on Lyusinovskaya apartment complex with a two-level parking, a monolith of twelve and thirteen floors; also a monolithic "House on the Emerald" - 21 floor, underground parking and free layout; business class project - "House on Samarinskaya" in twelve floors with parking and ceilings up to four meters.
Reviews
All of the above new buildings are intended for wealthy buyers, as they are located in a quiet center and represent the rarest point development in Moscow today. When reading the reviews of Leader-Invest JSC, it is easy to refer completely alien to it, since there is practically the namesake of this company on the real estate market - the Leader holding from St. Petersburg, which is now very active in Moscow territories. These organizations are completely different, they have nothing in common except a profession.
Feedback on the Leader-Invest developer, even at numerous forums, is rare, because they build expensive housing, and wealthy owners will not get involved with a company that does not build well enough. Accordingly, they write reviews very rarely. The builder was thanked with money for the purchased housing, what else does Leader-Invest need? It is almost impossible to find feedback from equity holders. In this regard, we can only say that the housing is probably worthy, the land for development was excellent (probably it cannot do without any company secret: not every developer gets the opportunity to implement projects in the Central Administrative District of Moscow).
In the construction market
But in the construction market the company "Leader-Invest" is very well known. Feedback from managers of this developer and employees of many other companies quite often note this. Since there are a lot of realized expensive projects, it would be strange if no one knew about the developer.
These projects are only comfort-, business- and premium-class housing and a lot of work done in terms of commercial real estate (one business park on the site of the ZIL plant is worth what). In principle, "Leader-Invest" was successfully noted in all segments of the construction market in Moscow, and in the largest-scale urban development projects. In 2014, complex projects were launched in the capital, which Leader-Invest is implementing today. These are buildings that should organically fit into the already existing architectural ensemble, preserving the current appearance of the capital.
On Lobachevsky
I managed to find the stories of two realtors who worked at different times at the Leader-Invest company that, in connection with the crisis, the company decided to sell the LCD project on Lobachevsky on 250,000 square meters. However, the information on the site suggests that even if such a decision was made, then the potential buyers were not lucky - the management decided to sell this project. The object is too large to be able to find one investor for it, but if you attract several investors from the outside, it will turn out not only profitable, but also good for investors and for the city.
Apparently, this company "Leader-Invest" succeeded. Design has already been completed, and commissioning is planned in 2021. About one hundred and thirty thousand square meters of housing, about the same number of apartments and six thousand square meters of commercial space, should enter this unique complex. The company does not disclose investors in this project anywhere. And in general, "Leader-Invest" is full of secrets and mysteries.
Instead of automatic telephone exchange
In 2017, it is planned to commission residential complexes with investments of five billion rubles. These are the territories where the automatic telephone exchanges used to be: in Kuzminki on Zelenodolskaya Street, near the Skhodnenskaya metro station on Fabrizius Street, on Michurinsky Prospekt in the Olympic Village and near the Sokol metro station on Usievicha Street. And in 2018, the Leader-Invest company will commission the complex on D. Bednogo Street (near Marshal Zhukov Avenue), where costs will exceed twenty-seven billion rubles, not including the cost of land.
The size of the project is very large, but the demand for buyers is provided to him, if applied correctly pricing policy. There is a developed infrastructure and a large number of natural zones: forests and parks. There are about thirty such projects, twenty-six are already underway. Basically, all the residential complexes that the company erects are located in places where there were automatic telephone exchanges. MGTS is engaged in their reorganization. These are Pokrovsky Boulevard, Lyusinovskaya Street, Sretenka, Serpukhov Val, Usievich Street and others.
Now
And now a trial is underway with Rosneft, which concerns almost all structures of AFK Sistema. Leader-Invest has not yet affected interim measures, but labor disputes are already taking place. Some are very serious. The ex-president of the company and about ten middle managers did not receive termination benefits upon dismissal, moreover, the promised ones. That is why they had to turn to the prosecutor’s office, and there is already a notice of the prosecutor’s inspection.
The company, in a counterclaim, demands from the departed top manager compensation for one hundred and fifty-five million rubles. The Leader-Invest management does not disclose details again, but requires this money as a measure to protect the legitimate interests and rights of the company. And the company management is not going to restore the violated rights of its former subordinate: Mr Rubtsov is not entitled to any compensation in the amount of three times the average monthly salary, although the board of directors has approved these conditions of dismissal.
Company image
After receiving a notice of the prosecutor’s inspection, Leader-Invest filed a lawsuit against ex-president Rubtsov literally two days later, and the Kommersant newspaper was told that this lawsuit was not connected with the dismissal of the top manager, and the company would spend 155 million rubles on lawyers who will accompany the paperwork. The fact is that all the activities of the CEO are associated with risks, personal responsibility is proved with very great difficulties. Leader-Invest has a lot of such disputes: in 2016 alone, 695 lawsuits were filed, that is, about four percent of all corporation disputes.
And it is extremely undesirable for developers to sue. Any corporate dispute that goes beyond the walls of the company is a serious loss of image. Especially when you consider the situation in the real estate market, when supply is several times higher than demand. Buyers simply will not buy apartments from developers who are seen in scandals. All lawsuits filed last year are blamed on the departed ex-CEO.
Reason for dismissal
It was reported from the leading Russian information technology and media company RBC that Yevgeny Rubtsov was fired after the results of an internal audit conducted by the company's security service. However, Leader-Invest, as always, does not comment on this information. Rubtsov himself claims that he was forced to leave due to a different vision of the development of the company with one of the shareholders.
AFK Sistema wanted to reduce the cost of construction and sell housing as a business class, but it seemed wrong to Rubtsov. At the same time, another eight people from among middle managers were forced to leave Rubtsov. They also did not receive the severance pay due to them, and therefore also turned to the prosecutor's office about violation of labor legislation.