Local communities earned UAH 1.6 billion last year by selling and leasing municipal real estate and land through online auctions. This is reported by the Ministry of Economy with reference to the annual ranking of cities by Prozorro.Sale, UNN reports.
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The ranking includes 26 cities that most actively sold their assets on Prozorro.Sale in 2023 and earned almost one billion hryvnias. Zolotonosha in Cherkasy region, Balta in Odesa region, and Kyiv topped the ranking.
Communities have a great potential that they can realize on their own by successfully selling and leasing municipal real estate and land through Prozorro.Sale. State online auctions in 2023 helped local budgets earn at least UAH 1.6 billion
It is known that in 2023 the number of communities using the service increased compared to 2022. According to ProZorro, in 2023, 334 territorial communities worked with the system, announcing more than 7.3 thousand successful tenders for small-scale privatization, lease of municipal property, and lease and sale of land.
For example, Zolotonosha successfully held 61 auctions out of 78 announced during the year and received almost UAH 1.9 million. In Balta, 168 successful auctions brought in more than UAH 23.3 million. And in 2023, the capital's budget was replenished by more than UAH 141.4 million based on the results of almost half a thousand auctions.
Lutsk and Lubny are also among the top five cities with the highest efficiency of property management through online auctions. The city budgets earned more than UAH 12.5 million and almost UAH 4.8 million from the sale of municipal assets, respectively. The top ten also includes Chernivtsi, Dnipro, Ternopil, Lviv, and Kremenchuk.
In particular, Lviv attracted the most funds in the system last year among all cities. Small-scale privatization, lease and land brought almost UAH 160.4 million to its budget.