“Dom.rf”: 78 percent of families in Russia when buying new housing will choose apartments with finishing
78 percent of Russian families planning to buy an apartment in a new building in the next five years. The fact that Russians are targeting this type of property is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the development institute Dom.rf and VTsIOM (available to Lenta.ru).
The majority (49 percent) of potential new settlers prefer a fine finish, another 29 percent would like to choose an apartment with a pre-finish (white box). At the same time, at present, the share of finished housing under construction in Russia does not exceed 40 percent, according to Dom.ru. and live. “This option is convenient for everyone: both for those families who have invested the last funds in the purchase of an apartment and no longer have additional money for repairs, and for business-class home buyers who do not want to wait for the completion of long finishing work,” explains in “ Dom.rf “.
Earlier, Russians' spending on housing repairs was disclosed. On average, families borrow 270,000 rubles from banks for new furnishings. The most popular loan term for a repair loan is 60 months. At the same time, women are more active in taking loans to put their homes in order: they account for 60 percent of all relevant applications, the remaining 40 percent – for men.