Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service raises minimum threshold for monitoring real estate deals 15-fold

MOSCOW. March 10 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has increased the lower threshold for real estate deals subject to mandatory monitoring by 15 times since March 10, the service said on its Max channel.

"Rosfinmonitoring's decree from January 26 came into effect on March 10, obliging credit organizations and branches of foreign banks in Russia to inform the service about real estate transactions totaling 75 million rubles or more (or the equivalent sum in a foreign currency)," the message reads.

The minimum threshold for real estate transactions subject to obligatory monitoring was previously set at 5 million rubles. As such, it has now increased 15-fold.

The service said that transactions conducted in cash or via a cashless transfer would both be subject to the monitoring requirements.

Banks will begin forwarding information on deals to Rosfinmonitoring on April 1, 2026.