KIEV, Oct. 31 – Commercial rents in Kiev will fall every year by around 20% for one or two years due to the crisis on the loan market, according to Robert Velan, the managing director of Kiev-based 1849 PLC Investment and Developing Company.

"Rent rates [for trade real estate] in Kiev will fall by 20% in a year for sure," he said during the Mechanisms for Raising Investment into Development congress in Kiev.