Gref expects further mortgage rate cuts in 2020

According to the head of Sberbank German Gref, in 2020 Russia will continue to reduce mortgage rates. mortgage will increase by 7-9 percent.

According to the latest data from the Central Bank, in October the average weighted rate on mortgage has reached its lowest level over the past two years - 9.4 percent. The total debt of Russians on such loans amounted to 7.47 trillion rubles at the end of the month.

According to Gref, the market is very promising. As a rule, buying an apartment with a mortgage people with a higher income, so the risks are much lower. In addition, mortgage is a family matter, notes the head of Sberbank, and often parents help children first save up for a down payment, and then pay off faster .

At the end of November, Sberbank reduced rates for the main product line: by 0.3 percentage points on purchase of finished housing and by 0.4 percentage points on buying an apartment in a house under construction in most regions. In six constituent entities of Russia, the rate fell by 0.6 percentage points: Moscow, the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, the Leningrad region, Tatarstan and the Novosibirsk region.