“The growth rates of mortgages in the first half of the year were very high.

Even taking into account the slowdown in the second half of the year, the growth rates for the whole year will remain significant.

We will closely monitor the situation, ”TASS quoted her as saying.

She noted that after the amendments to the terms of the preferential mortgage came into force on July 1, in the first two weeks of issuance fell by about 2 times.

In June, the head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina noted that by the end of the year mortgage growth could exceed 20%.

On July 23, Sberbank reduced the initial mortgage payment for clients who do not receive a salary on the bank's card, to 10% instead of the previously established 15%, subject to confirmation of employment and income.

Earlier, the director of the Institute of a New Society Vasily Koltashov, in an interview with Inforeactor, gave recommendations on how to arrange a mortgage.