The head of Sberbank German Gref, on February 22 at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted a decline in mortgage interest rates to historic lows in 2017.

"As mortgage today we historically very low interest rates. This year, given the fact that there are quite ambitious plans to reduce inflation, rates will fall, of course. So I think that this year we will reach a historic, very low levels of interest rates on the mortgage ", - quotes Gref TASS.

According to him, the mortgage portfolio of the bank in 2016 has grown, and today the Savings Bank - it is 55% of the mortgage market.

"We are in crisis grew, and, in general, support the share, primarily due to the fact that we have launched some very interesting products" -soobschil German Gref.

He told about the service "Mortgage-Online", where the customer can apply and execute all documents for a loan and how to find an apartment without visiting a bank branch. According to Gref, this service is already used by 17% of the bank's customers, writes "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

On February 20, Sberbank lowered the rate on your mortgage by 1 percentage point. As a result, in the case of acquisition of real estate from developers rate was 10.9%, with the purchase of housing on the secondary market - 10,75-12,25%.