South-Ural Mortgage Lending Agency summed up its success in the first quarter of 2006. Within the reported period, the Agency allotted 139 purpose mortgage loans worth 64.9m RUR. The loans are to be spent to acquire the dwellings whose construction was invested in by the Agency. In total, 189 dwellings worth 156.7m RUR were sold. The Agency also paid off 153 mortgages worth 80.5m RUR and refinanced 137 mortgages worth 66.4m RUR. The total amount of the Agency’s investments into construction of apartment blocks in Chelyabinsk Region came to 124m RUR.

The expected amount of the Agency’s investments into apartment block construction is to come to at least 1bn RUR. These investments will allow putting in commission at least 140,000 square meters of new apartments in more than 20 municipalities of Chelyabinsk Region.