SKB-Bank was able to improve on both the volume and the number of mortgage loans it offered to customers in January-March 2008. The bank’s loan portfolio increased by 363.4 million RUR on April 1, 2008, or by 25% compared to a year earlier.

As for the loans offered to people who’d like to buy an apartment currently under construction, the volume of these doubled compared with the volume of such loans issued in the first quarter of 2007.

All in all, SKB-Bank offered its customers over 4,600 mortgage loans worth 4.5 billion RUR in January-March 2008.