Secondary Housing Interest in Chita Rises 1% Over Year

The secondary housing market in Russia noticeably revived by the end of 2025, with December setting a record for the number of deals in the past two years. Against this backdrop, interest in buying apartments in Chita also increased, but significantly more modestly than in most other cities — by only 1% over the year. This is reported by the service Avito Nedvizhimost (Avito Real Estate) to Chita.Ru.

«According to the platform Avito Nedvizhimost, the top 5 most popular cities among service users included St. Petersburg, Moscow, Krasnodar, Kazan, and Rostov-on-Don. Compared to the same month last year, interest in properties on the secondary market grew in 20 out of 41 cities studied. Interest in buying housing increased more frequently in Arkhangelsk (+17%), Tomsk, Omsk, and Saratov (+9% each), Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, and St. Petersburg (+8%), Kurgan (+7%), Murmansk, Chelyabinsk, and Novorossiysk (+6%), Sochi (+5%), and 8 other major cities. In Chita, over the same period, interest in apartments increased by 1%,» the message states.

In Chita, the average cost per square meter at the end of 2025 was 124,000 rubles (approximately $1,240 at current rates), which is below the national average. The greatest interest among buyers, as across the country, is in one-room and two-room apartments.

The leading regions by the number of secondary housing sales in 2025 were Moscow (90.1 thousand), Moscow Oblast (89.6 thousand), St. Petersburg (62.7 thousand), Sverdlovsk Oblast (50.9 thousand), and Krasnodar Krai (48.2 thousand).

The second half of the year accounted for 58% of all deals for the year, and December 2025 showed record values for the past two years. In the final month, 164,000 purchase and sale agreements were registered: this is 33% more than in November 2025 and 15% more than in December 2024. This is due to the reduction in the key rate, easing of mortgage conditions, and buyers« attempts to purchase housing under previous programs, including the »Family Mortgage.«

«The last quarter of 2025, especially December, showed record values: partly, traditional market seasonality played a role here, but both the relative growth and absolute indicators of December 2025 outpaced the previous year. This indicates the activation of deferred demand in response to the reduction of the Russian key rate and the easing of bank conditions. Moreover, we associate the high December figures with clients striving to sell apartments to have time to buy new ones under the old terms of the »Family Mortgage.« Some Russians who previously postponed solving the housing issue are gradually returning to considering buying their own apartment, and investors are putting money into real estate after freeing up funds from deposits. Depending on the further policy of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on the key rate, the trend of market recovery has every chance to continue in 2026,» commented Sergei Yeryomkin, managing director of the secondary and suburban real estate direction at Avito Nedvizhimost.