Warehouses Light Industrial as a New Format of the Warehouse Real Estate Market

The Russian warehouse real estate market is a combination of modern premises with high consumer properties, which were built in recent decades, and old industrial and warehouse premises that remained on the market as a legacy of the Soviet economy. The expanding needs of both small manufacturing and trading enterprises, as well as logistics intermediaries (freight forwarding companies, warehousing companies, fulfillment operators for online orders, etc.) create significant demand on the market for small but modern warehouses located within urban areas. features. Light industrial warehouses, which have recently begun to be actively designed and built, could become objects of warehouse infrastructure that can meet the needs of business entities. The purpose of the presented research is to identify those factors that determine the relevance of such a market offer in modern economic conditions, and to characterize the state of the Russian warehouse real estate market and the location of light industrial warehouses in it. The methodology of the conducted research is based on the analysis of the main trends in the development of this sector of the economy. The data from statistical reports and analytical reviews of the Russian market served as the information base for the study. The scientific novelty of the work consists in determining the place of light industrial warehouses in the structure of the warehouse real estate market, considering approaches to classifying objects of the format, studying the advantages and disadvantages of the format for market participants.