Over the most recent available period—from October 2025 to March 2026—approximately 15,800 housing purchase and sale agreements were concluded in Kyiv, according to data from the National Bank of Ukraine, citing the National Information Systems. This is the highest figure among the country’s regions.
By comparison, approximately 19,100 transactions were registered in the capital from January through September 2025. In the Kyiv region, 17,000 contracts were signed during this period; in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 16,800; and in the Kharkiv region, 14,000.
The NBU notes that in the fourth quarter of 2025, overall activity in Ukraine’s housing market was the highest since 2022; however, in the first quarter of 2026, the number of transactions declined significantly. Cumulatively over the last four quarters, housing sales increased by 11% year-over-year.
The NBU’s figures cover housing purchase and sale agreements in both the primary and secondary markets; therefore, they should not be equated solely with sales of apartments in new construction projects.
Shareholders of PJSC “Yuria” (trademark “Voloshkove Pole”) have preliminarily approved significant transactions with AB “Pivdenny” totaling up to 900 million UAH, the company reported in the disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC).
The relevant decision was adopted at the general meeting of shareholders on July 2, and the minutes of the voting results were signed on July 7.
As noted in the announcement, the prior consent covers the conclusion of loan and other financial agreements with the bank, as well as amendments to existing agreements, specifically regarding financing limits, terms, interest rates, and fees.
In a separate resolution, the shareholders approved the general agreement on the provision of banking services, concluded on August 29, 2025, between PJSC “Yuria” and LLC “Pervomaisky Milk Canning Plant.” It provides for the possibility of obtaining loans, credit lines, guarantees, letters of credit, and other banking services with a maximum limit of 300 million UAH. The deadline for fulfilling obligations under the agreement is set for August 28, 2030.
The maximum aggregate value of transactions for which shareholders have given their prior consent is 900 million UAH, or 86.7% of the company’s total assets as of the end of 2025. The market value of the master agreement is estimated at 300 million UAH, which corresponds to 28.9% of the company’s total assets.
As previously reported, in June, the shareholders decided that PJSC “Yuria” may enter into significant transactions with Pivdenny Bank for a total amount of up to 900 million UAH, in addition to the transactions already concluded with a limit of 300 million UAH.
PJSC “Yuria” is the legal successor to the Cherkasy City Dairy Plant, with a design capacity of 25 metric tons of raw milk processing per day. It ranks among the top ten largest Ukrainian milk producers.
The dairy producer, operating under the “Voloshkove Pole” brand, invested EUR 1.5 million in 2023 to install a Tetra Pak production line in order to double its output of ultra-pasteurized milk. In 2024, the company invested EUR 1.6 million in modernizing the production facilities of its enterprises and launched a new production line for glazed cheese curds.
The company has two subsidiaries: “Yuria-2”—a network of brand-name stores and kiosks in Cherkasy—and “Yuria-Trans”—a trucking company that delivers raw materials and supplies for processing, products to retail outlets, and provides other transportation services. Its raw material supply area covers the Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Kyiv, and Vinnytsia regions. Milk is collected from over 200 settlements.
The company’s beneficiaries are Oleksandr and Andriy Tabalov.
According to the annual report, “Yuriya’s” revenue in 2025 grew by 27.8%—to 2 billion 200.95 million UAH—and net profit amounted to 62.68 million UAH, compared to a net loss of 121.95 million UAH the previous year.
As noted in the company’s reports, in 2025 a master agreement was signed with Pivdenny Bank for a credit line with a maximum financing limit of 300 million UAH; from September through December 2025, 67.72 million UAH was drawn down. As of the end of March this year, this amount had increased to 90 million UAH, with a loan rate of 17.5 million UAH.
The average price per hectare of agricultural land in Ukraine has nearly tripled in the five years since the market opened—rising from about 30,000 UAH to 87,900 UAH, according to an analytical review by the KSE Center for Food and Land Use Research, dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the opening of the agricultural land market.
According to the study, since the market opened on July 1, 2021, more than 512,800 transactions for the sale of agricultural land have been concluded in Ukraine, covering a total area of 1.154 million hectares and amounting to 51.4 billion UAH.
The average price per hectare during this period was 66,400 UAH, rising to 87,900 UAH in 2026.
The authors of the study note that although the nominal average price of land nearly tripled, when adjusted for inflation, its real value increased by approximately 25%, corresponding to an average annual growth rate of about 4.6%.
The most expensive agricultural land over the five years the market has been operating was sold in Ivano-Frankivsk (139 thousand UAH/ha), Lviv (123.4 thousand UAH/ha), and Kyiv (107.1 thousand UAH/ha) regions
The lowest prices were recorded in Luhansk (24.9 thousand UAH/ha), Kherson (30.5 thousand UAH/ha), Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia (37 thousand UAH/ha each) regions.
The largest areas of land that changed hands over the five years the market has been operating were recorded in Poltava (107.6 thousand hectares), Dnipropetrovsk (94.8 thousand hectares), and Kharkiv (89.4 thousand hectares) regions.
The study’s authors note that after the market came to a near standstill in the spring of 2022 due to restrictions on access to state registries, activity gradually resumed, and by the second half of 2023, the market had stabilized.
The study also notes that the opening of the market on January 1, 2024, to legal entities with the right to purchase up to 10 thousand hectares did not confirm fears of a sharp increase in demand.
“Despite the concerns of farmers and landowners, the expansion of access did not lead to an abnormal surge in demand—the number of transactions and the area of land sold grew gradually. Although the absolute peak in activity was recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025—nearly 35,000 transactions covering an area of about 70,000 hectares—by the first quarter of 2026, the figures had returned to the usual 2024 level (26,000–28,000 transactions). “This indicates that the market has stabilized and that buyer and seller activity is predictable,” the study notes.
The study was prepared by the Center for Food and Land Use Research at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE Agrocenter) based on data from the State Geocadastre and the state-owned enterprise “Prozorro.Sales.”
As part of its 19th package of sanctions, the European Union will impose a ban on transactions with five Russian credit institutions from November 12: Alfa Bank, MTS Bank, Absolut Bank, Zemsky Bank, and NKO Istina, according to an EU statement.
In addition, Belarusian Alfa Bank, Sberbank, VTB, Belgazprombank, BelVEB, as well as VTB’s subsidiary in Kazakhstan and VTB’s branch in Shanghai have been added to the EU sanctions list.
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The transaction volume of the international financial service NovaPay (TM NovaPay) in January-September 2025 increased by 25% compared to the same period last year, to UAH 267 billion, while the number of transfers during this period increased by 5%, to 307 million.
“The results for the nine months confirm the correctness of the chosen development vector,” NovaPay CEO Igor Syrovatka is quoted as saying in the company’s press release on Tuesday.
It is noted that in the first nine months of this year, the company transferred more than UAH 1.1 billion in taxes to the state budget, compared to UAH 1 billion in the first nine months of last year.
Last year, based on the results of nine months, NovaPay reported a 29% increase in transaction volume, a 26% increase in the number of transfers, and a 22% increase in taxes.
According to data from YouControl, NovaPay LLC’s revenue in the first half of this year grew by 9.3% to UAH 4 billion 539.75 million, while net profit fell by 42.1% to UAH 966.98 million.
Loan services are also provided by the subsidiary NovaPay Credit, which actively raises money through bond placements. In the first half of this year, NovaPay Credit, according to reports on its website, increased its net profit by 52.2% compared to the first half of last year, to UAH 53.92 million, with revenue growing 2.7 times, to UAH 260.36 million.
The number of customers using the mobile application of the international financial service NovaPay (TM NovaPay), launched at the end of 2023, reached 750,000, the company reported in July 2025, which at the end of last year reported 500,000 customers.
NovaPay was founded in 2001 as an international financial service, part of the Nova group (Nova Poshta), providing online and offline financial services in Nova Poshta branches. According to the website, the company employs about 13,000 people in more than 3,600 Nova Poshta branches throughout Ukraine. According to the National Bank of Ukraine, the company accounts for about 35% of the total volume of domestic money transfers.
NovaPay was the first non-bank financial institution in Ukraine to receive an extended license from the NBU in 2023, which allowed it to open accounts and issue cards, and was also the first non-bank to launch its own financial application with a wide range of financial services at the end of last year.
Metinvest, the vertically integrated steel and mining group of companies, has signed its first smart contract on we.trade blockchain trade finance platform supported by UniCredit.
According to a press release provided by Metinvest Group, this blockchain transaction demonstrates the importance of digitalization in the steel industry.
“Importantly, this is the first blockchain transaction provided by UniCredit to Metinvest Group and is a new digital instrument for us. Blockchain technology allows for the creation and management of a large distributed transaction management database that can be shared across multiple nodes of a network. Such transactions demonstrate the Group’s willingness to work in a trusted environment with secure technology, improved risk mitigation and enhanced visibility,” a press service quotes Head of Corporate Finance at the European Re-rolling Business Unit of Metinvest Group, Jamilya Baimukhambetova, as saying.
According to the press release, the underlying transaction is the purchase of equipment for one of Metinvest’s production re-rollers from a European supplier. One of the pilot project’s objectives is to try the new platform from the client side, so that the Group can evaluate its potential as a new type of payment terms that it can offer to some of its major customers.
Exploring the potential of blockchain trade finance is one way that Metinvest Group is implementing its digital innovation strategy, the Group said in its press release.
The we.trade platform works in partnership with major European banks (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) and is based on distributed ledger technology, the major underlying elements of which include blockchain and smart contracts. When a smart contract is created on the we.trade platform, the payment will be automatically triggered according to the terms agreed by the counterparties once the buyer has confirmed the delivery of the goods, making the transaction considerably faster and more transparent.
According to the press release, we.trade is a truly successful inter-bank collaboration that can help to redefine business relationships among companies, removing obstacles that typically make international transactions costly and complex while delivering benefits for corporates.
Metinvest Group is a vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies that manages every link of the value chain, from mining and processing iron ore and coal to making and selling semi-finished and finished steel products. It comprises steel and mining production facilities located in Ukraine, Europe and the US, as well as a sales network covering all key global markets. Metinvests business is divided for financial reporting purposes into two segments: metallurgical and mining. The Group ended the first quarter with revenues of $2.9 billion and an EBITDA margin was 15%.
Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
