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Siberians ask to subsidize construction materials production and mortgage loans on secondary market

The Deputy Minister of Construction for the Novosibirsk region, Ivan SHMIDT, answers questions from our journal.

 

— Mr Shmidt, the Novosibirsk region is one of the national leaders in the sphere of construction. Last year the region occupied 6th place for housing put in operation and was third for dynamics of construction after Leningrad region and Moscow. And still, before the State Council for construction, we would like to ask the Siberian constructors what main problems, from their point of view, are preventing the construction industry from going steadily forward at present?

— The slow-down in the rate of the construction industry’s development is connected with the decrease in housing customers’ effective demand in the context of the population’s real income fall.  Because of this, developers are slowing down construction rates, and the enterprises on the construction industry are decreasing the production of construction materials, because the demand is decreasing and the volume of undistributed stock is increasing.

The most acute problems hindering housing construction development, from our standpoint, are:  

 

— What are, from your point of view, the sticking-points, and how can the problems be solved?  

— According to figures from the RF Central Bank, as of January 1st, 2016, 16,315 mortgage loans had been lent in the Novosibirsk region, totaling 26,127 m roubles. As compared with last year’s period, the number of mortgage loan credits decreased by 43.5%, and the volume went down by 39.2%.

As of March 1st, 2016, 2,836 mortgage loans had been lent in the Novosibirsk region (a growth of 29.5% as compared with the same period of 2015) totaling 4,556 m roubles (50.6% growth as compared with the same period of 2015) at an average weighted rate of 12.14%, which is 1.85 percent lower than the same period of 2015 (last year, the average weighted rate was 13.99%).

Thus, to stabilize the situation in the construction industry, it is necessary to take measures to stimulate the demand on the housing construction market, including:

All these measures were included in the proposals by the Novosibirsk regional government sent to the head of the work group of the RF State Council, Victor Tolokonsky, on the issue of “Construction complex development and urban development improvement in the RF” for the preparation of the report project.

 

— How should state policy be corrected in the sphere of construction to smooth out most of the consequences of the economic crisis for the Russian construction organization and construction materials producers?

— One of the key units of proposals sent for the consideration of the State Council were on the improvement of the state regulation and self-regulation of the industry, which are to mitigate the crisis’s effects both for constructors and construction materials producers.

These proposals include the following measures of state support:

Besides this, we propose the provision of measures to increase the efficiency of the construction materials, machines and equipment industry:

Prepared by Alexei ANDREEV

19-05-2016, 10:33
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