Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Over the past 9 months of 2020, commercial banks provided 50,627 individuals with mortgage loans in the amount of 6.4 trillion. soums, which is 1.1 trillion soums more than in the same period of 2019.

The increase in the volume of mortgage loans was mainly observed in the city of Tashkent (by 1.37 trillion soums more compared to the same period of last year), as well as in Samarkand (by 128.6 billion soums), Surkhandarya (by 92.8 billion soums). soums), Navoi (by 36.9 billion soums) and Jizzakh regions (by 33.6 billion soums).

About 4.47 trillion soums (69.4%) of the total volume of mortgage loans were directed to the purchase of residential buildings built by the Qishloq Qurilish Invest IC and the Ozshakar Qurilish Invest IC, 1.82 trillion soums (28.3% ) - housing in the primary market (including 793.9 billion soums under the new order) and 145.0 billion soums (2.3%) allocated for the purchase of housing in the secondary market.

By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. UP-5886 from 28 November 2019 "On additional measures to improve the mechanisms of mortgage lending", a new procedure for mortgage lending was adopted, on the basis of which 3,695 citizens were allocated loans with a total value of 793.3 billion soums, of which 367.4 billion soums (46.3%) were issued for the purchase of 2-room apartments, 425.8 billion soums (53.7%) - for the purchase of 3 and more room apartments.

The largest share of mortgage loans falls on Samarkand region (215.8 billion soums), the city of Tashkent (153.7 billion soums), Navoi (78.9 billion soums) and Ferghana regions (77.4 billion soums).