The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Moscow
Moscow, Russia. Mandarin Oriental. The first branded residential development in the country, on the embankment facing the Kremlin.
Two sources say these residences hold apartment status, and that is the most important line on the record. In Russian law apartamenty are legally non-residential premises: the buyer gets no residential registration, and utility and tax treatment differ from a flat. An address directly opposite the Kremlin, sold under a status that is not housing — this is precisely what the Tenure axis exists to surface, and no listing leads with it.
Capital Group owns and develops; Mandarin Oriental signed a management contract in 2018; Sergey Skuratov did the architecture and Pierre-Yves Rochon the interiors. Four new residential buildings with private courtyards and reconstructed historic mansions on the Sofiyskaya embankment, arranged along a two-hundred-metre pedestrian boulevard. The scheme was designed inside the Kremlin's security zone, which the sources describe as the governing constraint on everything built there.
The register does not know whether it opened. The hotel was stated for 2021 and no consulted source confirms delivery of either the hotel or the residences; the count is 137 in the 2018 announcement and 134 in two 2024 accounts. Status is recorded as not established, per the Standard's rule that an announcement is not a delivery. Moscow is the second billionaire city in the world by Forbes's 2025 count and ninth by Hurun's — and its first branded residence was announced only in 2018.
Who it is not for
Not for a buyer who needs residential title: apartment status is not housing under Russian law, and the register flags it rather than burying it. Not for anyone who needs to know the building is finished — no source consulted establishes that it is.
Sources
- Hotel Management, 28 September 2018 — Capital Group, 137 Residences at Mandarin Oriental, 65-key hotel stated for 2021, Rochon with Skuratov
- royist.com, 8 June 2022 — 137 residences, maisonettes, six-metre ceilings, Kremlin security zone
- homessociety.com, 24 January 2024 — 134 residences with apartment status, three finishing options
- maisonvalentina.net, 30 January 2024 — 134 residences, apartment status
- LHL-R-031 · Mandarin Oriental Residences, Part VII P7-01-04 · Pierre-Yves Rochon
The publishers below were read; the register did not record which page, so these are named and not linked.
royist.com · homessociety.com · maisonvalentina.net
Verification
- Official source
- Checked
- Inventory
- Awaiting confirmation
- Sources disagree
- 137 residences vs 134; delivery of hotel and residences unconfirmed
- Property confirmation
- Pending
- Last verified
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Booking
Private Residences records addresses; it does not broker them. Enquiries are passed to the party named in the record, and nothing on this site is an offer.
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Named in research
- Savills · 2020 · Spotlight Branded Residences — p. 16 — same name — a candidate
- Savills · 2019 · Spotlight Branded Residences — p. 5 — same name — a candidate
- Graham Associates · 2019 · Branded Residences An Overview Third Edition — p. 17 — same name — a candidate
Reports are catalogued in ResearchCorrespondence and linked to their publishers; the register does not republish them.
Investment migration — the facts the rule turns on
The rule for Russia: Permanent residence for new-build property — contested — checked 24.09.2026.
| Entry price | Not established | 06.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
| Seller | Not established | 06.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
| Construction status | Not established | 06.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
| Tenure | Share in a company | 06.09.2026 · record sources |
The register publishes the facts and the rule; it does not say whether any purchase qualifies. Eligibility attaches to a sale, not to a building, and the register is not immigration counsel.