For the first half of 2020 at the St. Petersburg buildings soared prices
"On average, in St. Petersburg from January, the price of new housing rose by 8.8% and in the Leningrad region – by 3.9%. Now the average cost of "square" in the city is 141 thousand rubles, and in urban areas region — 85 thousand rubles. Previously, according to our observations, in six months the price rose 5%, high 6%", — says Olga Ulyanova, Director of marketing and advertising GK "Polis Group".
The increase in the cost per square meter is largely influenced by the increased demand, said the expert.
The company "Petersburg real estate" agreed, the demand for new buildings in St. Petersburg and the suburbs now really breaking records — for the first half of 2020 was purchased 1.85 million square meters of housing. This figure has beaten the figures of 2015 and 2017 the most successful market for years.
Incentives for this hype is simple: the new state program — rural mortgages, thanks to which many in the beginning of the year managed to acquire housing in the suburbs at a rate of 2.7%, and mortgages for new buildings with gosupravleniem — she opened the prospects of buying an apartment to those who previously could not afford it. Played the role: new income tax on deposits of more than one million — it became more profitable to keep money in the "concrete", lowering the Central Bank's key rate to 4.5%, and generally unstable economic and epidemiological situation — many buyers trying to buy the house to fall, not to fall under the alleged second wave of the pandemic.
According to experts, to predict what will happen to prices in the second half of the year due to the coronavirus moreover, the market has begun to see new projects with its own pool of proposals (in the first half their was two times less than in the same period last year). Developers are pinning their hopes on the fact that the second half of the year will be more traditional and will be held without sharp fluctuations.