November 13, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Today’s 12-th meeting pf the permanent commission for stabilization and development of the Autonomous Okrug financial market, chaired by Deputy Chairman of the Ugra Government for investments and innovations Kirill Morozov, was devoted to the banking sphere.

The talk was about mortgage crediting and restructure of loans  in accordance with recommendations of the Observatory Council of the Housing Crediting Mortgage Agency, headed by President’s Assistant  Arcady Dvorkovich.

The analysis of nine months shows that the situation with mortgage and housing loans in the Autonomous Okrug is getting better. The anti-crisis measures of the Federal and regional governments influenced that.

Bankers do not hurry with issue of loans. Sberbank, Gazprombank and Khanty-Mansiysk Bank started to grow credit portfolio. They develop programs of mortgage housing loans restructure though  overdue payments in Ugra make only 0,49 % (2,23 % in Russia on average).

Based on the opinion of experts, in 2010 Ugra will be able to increase the number of transactions by four times and achieve 8 billion rubles on the mortgage market. Summing up the results of the meeting Kirill Morozov expressed confidence that bankers would support the   present and future initiatives of the Okrug Government for stabilization and strengthening of housing crediting what will lower risks of transactions and increase portfolio. Investments will be reimbursed into the sphere of housing construction. The authorities promise support including information support, as many failures happened because of psychological reasons.