Within three quarters of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) (Rb 698.59bn) exceeded by 50% that extended in the respective period of 2011. With growth in lending volumes, a decrease in the overdue debt on MHL in rubles both in monetary terms and as a percentage of the outstanding...

Though the lending rate on mortgage housing loans (MHL) in rubles increased from 11.4% as of December 1, 2011 to 12.7% as of January 1, 2013 the volume of mortgage housing lending in 2012 increased 32% and 44% as regards the number of loans (690,661 loans) and in money terms (Rb 1,029 trillion),...

In 12 months of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) exceeded by 47.3% that in the same period of 2011 and amounted to Rb 904.6bn, despite the continued growth in the weighted average rate on MHL in rubles extended within a month. In November 2012, the weighted average rate amounted...

In January 2013, entities of all the forms of ownership built 45,800 new apartments with the total floor space of 3.58m sq. meters or 114.7% as compared to January 2012. In January, individual developers commissioned 1,585m sq. meters of housing which is 6.2% more than in January 2012.

In January-October 2012, entities of all the forms of ownership built 476,500 apartments with the total floorspace of 40.1m sq. meters which amounts to 103.8% on the respective period of 2011. The ratio between the price of housing and households’ income in 2012 points to the fact that housing...

The year of 2015 was marked by a few troublesome trends in the crisis unfolding in Russia's regions. The overwhelming majority of Russia's territories ran a budget deficit while regional and municipal debts were piling up. A new trend towards drastic shrinking of consumption took hold....

In 2015, 691,943 housing mortgage loans (HML) were originated totaling to Rb 1.15 trillion, which demonstrate a reduction against 2014 in quantitative terms by 31.68% and in value terms – by 34.96%. The HML portfolio quality deteriorate. In 2015 against 2014, outstanding debt denominated in...

China's property market has been the subject of much media coverage in recent years. Rapid price increases for residential property and the possibility of a price bubble in many cities has led the central government to take a myriad of regulatory measures to cool housing markets. Scholarly...

As for 1 August 2016, since the turn of the year 521,600 apartments were built totaling to 37.2 mn sq. m, which constitutes 92.6% of the floor area commissioned during the same period of 2015. Decline in the volumes of commissioned housing in 2016 was owing, first of all, to a reduction of...

In the first six months of 2013, 278,200 apartments with the total floorspace of 22.6m sq. meters were built. The average actual cost of building of 1 sq. meter rose by 11.8% in the first six months of 2013 as compared to the same period of 2012 and amounted to Rb 35,628, while the ratio between...