foreigners began to apply for mortgages in Russia more often – Kommersant

The share of foreigners in the total volume of mortgage applications increased by 1.5 times in April compared to the same period in 2022. Compared to the average value of the first quarter of this year, the share has more than doubled. About it “Izvestia” reported in the federal company “Etazhi”.

According to the company, banks now lend more to citizens of friendly countries with official employment, other foreigners – less often and on an individual basis, such loans are issued only by a few large banks. Dmitrov, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Nefteyugansk, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Smolensk, Tyumen, Ukhta and Khanty-Mansiysk are in relatively high demand among foreign borrowers from friendly states, the Floors reported.

“The growth occurred against the background of the decision of the government commission for control over foreign investment in the Russian Federation to allow the issuance of mortgages in rubles to citizens of unfriendly states, as well as the expansion of their programs by banks,” said Tatyana Reshetnikova, deputy head of the mortgage department of the federal company Etazhi.

Take a mortgage for citizens of unfriendly countries in Russian banks in rubles allowed in April. According to the Central Bank, banks provided in March 2023, 154 thousand rubles of residential mortgage loans (HMLs) for a total amount of 569.4 billion rubles. against 114.6 thousand mortgage housing loans in the amount of 422.4 billion rubles. a month earlier.

Read more in the publication “Kommersant” “Mortgages lagged behind last year”.

Maria Fedotova