116,300 residential apartments were built in the period of January 2014 thru February 2014, with a total residential floor space measuring 8.7m sq. meters, an increase 34.3%. year-on-year. According to the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosregister), in 2013...

In 2013, growth in mortgage housing lending continued. In 2013, the volume of the extended mortgage housing loans (Rb 1,354 trillion) exceeded by 31.17% that of 2012. The quality of the portfolio of mortgage housing loans (MHL) kept getting worse: in 2013 the overdue debt fell to Rb 39.5bn with...

In January–October 2013, entities of all the forms of ownership built 566,800 apartments with floorspace of 45.4m sq. m which is equal to 113.3% on the respective period of 2012. In 2013, the correlation between the price of housing and households' income points to higher affordability of...

Within the first five months of 2015, a decrease in the volume of mortgage housing lending (MHL) as compared to the respective period of 2014 amounted to 38.34% and 40.96% in quantitative and monetary terms, respectively. Within the above period, Rb 372,754bn worth of 228,230 MHL was extended....

In January–April 2015, entities of all the patterns of ownership built 295,100 apartments with the total floorspace of 23.4m sq. meters which is equal to 128.4% as compared to the respective period of 2014. In Q1 2015, the average actual cost of building of a sq. meter of housing rose by 1.25%...

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...

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-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...

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),...

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....