Experts told about the most popular housing on the secondary market

In 2025, residents of Russian regions preferred to buy one- and two-bedroom apartments in relatively new residential buildings with mortgages. This was told by analysts of Sberbank's Domclick service based on the results of an analysis of mortgage transactions in the secondary real estate market this year.

According to experts, demand in the secondary real estate market is gradually recovering due to the easing of monetary policy and the beginning of the implementation of pent-up demand. Sberbank alone has completed more than 170,000 mortgage transactions with ready-made housing. The largest number of them were committed in the Central Federal District (25.2%), followed by the Volga Federal District (23.7%). The least number of apartments on the secondary market were purchased in the North Caucasus Federal District (3.7%).

The most affordable apartments were mortgaged in the North Caucasus Federal District, where the average cost of the facility was 2.2 million rubles. Mortgage apartments in the Far Eastern Federal District turned out to be the most expensive: there, the average mortgage amount was 5.1 million rubles.

Compared to the data for the first half of 2025, buyers are increasingly choosing to purchase apartments in new buildings. If in the first half of the year apartments in buildings from the 2010s were most often in demand in three districts, now they are in four: in the North Caucasus, South, Central and Ural regions. In houses built in the 1980s, apartments were most often bought in the Far Eastern and Siberian districts.

Residents of Russian regions mostly bought one- and two—bedroom apartments, which accounted for almost 80% of mortgage loans in 2025. One-room apartments and studios are most popular in the Southern (46.2%), Volga (40.7%) and Central (39.8%) districts. Two-room apartments were most often chosen in the North Caucasus (43.9%), the Far East (43.8%), and the Ural districts (41.2%).

The Siberian Federal District became the leader in purchases of large-sized objects: three-bedroom apartments accounted for more than 20.2% of purchases there, and lots with four or more rooms accounted for 3.9%.

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