On the background of the mode of isolation and the uncertain economic situation, the demand for the purchase of housing in Moscow region residents. If in March the share of regional transactions amounted to 10-15%, at the end of April it had increased to 40-45%. Analysts explain this trend by the desire of regional buyers to save, subsidizing mortgage rates, as well as transition developers on remote sales. Since the regions of mode isolation a softer, their residents easier to obtain a mortgage, than the Muscovites, and the share of apartments sold with the loans, add market participants.The demand for apartments in Moscow from regional buyers rose sharply in April, analysts estimated the company We Know (the former name of “S. A. Ricci — residential property”). Over the past month, the regional share of requests for purchase of new housing increased by 45%, whereas in March they were no more than 15% of the total number of cases.According We Know, most apartments in Moscow were interested in inhabitants of Eastern Siberia, the Far East, the Krasnodar territory and the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg. The growth in regional demand note and developers. Commercial Director A101 Anna Boim indicates that in the autumn of 2019, the interest in the purchase by foreign residents increased from 11% in total calls to 20%. About a fifth of the buyers bought homes for children who choose to study in Metropolitan University, about 15% of customers (mostly couples 35-50 years) buy an apartment to move to Moscow in connection with the work.In the UK, “Development” (developer of the complex “Mir Mitino”) recorded an increase in the share of regional buyers in the first quarter of 2020, and in April this trend continued, says CEO Igor residents of Kozelsk. According to him, informed the residents of the regions have made no more than 10-15% of the total volume of transactions in January—March, they accounted for 35% of sales. Although the main demand of regional customers are on flat of comfortclass in the business and premium projects too, the rise in interest from nonresident buyers, whose share in the total number of transactions reaches 20%, adds the Director of the Department of residential property at Colliers International Kirill Golyshev.The expert notes that particularly clearly a tendency to increase the proportion of regional demand was shown in the last 10-12 days of April, when it was announced the subsidized mortgage at a rate of 6.5%. According to him, a similar trend was observed in early 2015, when buyers from the regions actively out on the primary market of Moscow, to invest or save money. In the period of the currency crisis of 2014 the share of regional buyers also exceeded 30%, reminiscent of We Know. Finally, buyers from the regions now.since it is easier to buy flats in connection with remote sales.The increase in the share of regional buyers is associated with a decrease in activity on the part of the inhabitants of Moscow, says the sales Director of the group “Grenelle” Rustam Arslanov. Anna Boim connects the fall deals with people difficulties in obtaining a mortgage loan: the loans are sold about 70% of the apartments, the services at the remote receiving loans began to develop only in the second half of April, and before that, banks had to attend. In the regions, the mode of isolation are less stringent, so that to obtain the necessary documents, including help with work, potential buyers easier.Managing partner of the company “Metrium” Maria Litinetskaya expects interest in the Metropolitan housing will continue to grow, as “another economic crisis is a serious blow to the regional economy and will cause the outflow of skilled workers and businessmen”. Sales growth may increase by 25% due to preferential mortgages, which will reduce the monthly payment by 20-22% in comparison with the existing average rate of about 9% per annum. While fully compensate for the projected April sales decline by 50-60% will succeed only if the rate on a reduced program will be even lower and if the term of the loan will be extended to 30 years, which will help to reduce the size of the payment is about 20 percent, according to A101.Elizaveta Makarova
