But the situation varies. So, in Komi Republic the decline in demand amounted to 86 percent for the first quarter in the region have concluded 170 deals. In the Voronezh region concluded 1363 of the transaction, but the region is small, the decrease in demand compared to last year was 77 percent. In the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous district was purchased 422 apartments in under construction houses, a reduction of 75 percent.
In Moscow, a decline of 4.7 percent in the suburbs – 18.7%. In St. Petersburg the number of transactions with contracts equity decreased by 19 percent, in Leningrad region – 47.8 percent.
Actually, the drop recorded in all regions for the quarter is a few thousand transactions. The bar more than five thousand transactions for the quarter are in addition to Moscow, Moscow region and St. Petersburg to overcome in just two regions. So, in the Krasnodar region concluded 9045 deals, a decrease compared to the previous year was 1.2%. In the Sverdlovsk region 5132 bought apartments in new buildings, last year was 21.1 per cent more.
the Drop in demand is due to many factors. For example, at the end of the first quarter was the restrictive measures imposed and many who wish to buy a house, prefer to go into self-isolation and to wait with the transaction. In addition, many buyers were counting on a preferential mortgage. Special conditions, for example, mortgage at 6.5 percent became available in most of the banks have already started self-isolation.
However, a number of regions demonstrated significant sales growth in the segment of new buildings. So, in the Arkhangelsk region and Nenets Autonomous district the number of transactions increased by 82.4 percent. Growth in these regions can be explained by the sale of apartments in a large LCD. In the Kaliningrad region new home sales increased by 39.9%, in the Primorsky Krai, or 45 percent.
In some regions high rates due to the fact that in previous years the main demand was concentrated on the secondary or on the purchase of private homes, so even a small number of deals “in dolevku” was the subject of one of the leaders in growth percentages. This happened, for example, in the Altai, where for the first quarter of 2020 recorded 17 transactions in contracts equity. Last year, they were even less so in the region recorded a growth of 70 percent.
