UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. SKB-Bank and a number of other Russian financial market players signed a Memorandum of Cooperation at the Finopolis Forum in Sochi on October 18; the goal is to work on the development of Marketplace Project together, the bank’s press service reports. SKB-Bank’s customers can now access and purchase the bank’s products online, from anywhere in the world. Marketplace offers a customer full information on their accounts and the money in them and allows for online account management. SKB-Bank keeps working on making its services as hi tech as possible and

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 22, 2018. Actual Accomplishments, a project coordinated by Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky, is currently being implemented in District Nagaybaksky: the area’s long-term water supply problems are finally over, Southern Urals Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The local authorities also keep working to improve their settlements’ infrastructure and create better living conditions for the locals. ‘Actual Accomplishments are in full progress in Chelyabinsk Region. I decided to allocate even more funding for the project next

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s new home market supply is as large as ever, with over 20,000 apartments currently for sale. New home prices rose by 4.5% in the last nine months, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. According to the Chamber’s analyst Mikhail Khorkov, there are plenty of interesting housing projects to choose from; the supply structure, however, is now markedly different. At the beginning of the year, for example, there were over 4,000 homes for sale in newly commissioned buildings. In the fall, the number dropped down to 2,400 apartments. The market supply

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. 3,048,000 Sverdlovsk Region-based infrastructure facilities will have to undergo a cadastral appraisal next year, Sverdlovsk Region’s Ministry for Public Property Management’s press service reports. The constituency is getting ready to start the procedures at the moment. ‘The Tax Code amendments the Russian Government adopted on January 1, 2015 state that private taxpayers must start paying a property tax based on their assets’ cadastral value by January 1, 2020 at the latest (Article 402 of Russia’s Tax Code). They are currently paying a property tax

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. RUR 1bn got written off Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ overdue tax payment amounts between January 1 and October 19, 2018, head of Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division’s Debt Settlement Department Artem Balyura said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. The money written off pertains to unpaid transport tax, land tax, and property tax. The overall amount of unpaid taxes has gone down by RUR 2.5bn since the beginning of the year. According to Balyura, the amount in question got written off based on the Tax Amnesty Act 436-FZ (dated