New home loan contracts with mixed rates reach record levels.
The hiring of new mortgage loans with a mixed interest rate reached a record weight totaling 75% of the processes in April, according to the Bank of Portugal (BdP). Understand better next.
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New home loans with mixed rates reach record weight in April.
The mixed interest rate has been increasingly contracted in housing loans, as it offers an initial period of fixed interest rate currently - in this period of high interest rates - returning to the variable rate when it is expected that the Euribor rates will drop again with a significant impact on the monthly repayment of the loan.
That's why, according to the Bank of Portugal (BdP) quoted by Notícias ao Minuto, new home loans with mixed interest rates totaled 75% of the total contracted in April, reaching a record weight.
"This is the maximum value since the beginning of the statistical series in December 2021," highlights the central bank, quoted by the news, which also details that "at the end of April, mixed-rate loans accounted for 22% of the housing loans stock."
It was in early 2023 that the increase in new mixed-rate mortgage credit operations became evident, following the rise in interest rates. They went from 16% of the amount of new operations in December 2022 to 75% last April.
"The increasing demand for new mixed-rate mortgage contracts has been reflected in the change in the composition of the housing loan 'stock': The regulator indicates that the weight of these loans in the housing credit 'stock' increased from just 6% in December 2022 to 22% in April of this year," the news article reads.
Notice that the Euribor average in May dropped in all three terms, three, six and 12 months, with a greater impact than in April and in shorter terms. It went down from 0.073 points to 3.813% for three months (compared to 3.886% in April), 0.052 points to 3.787% for six months (3.839% in April), and 0.021 points to 3.681% for 12 months (versus 3.702% in April).
And it was now the first time, on June 6, that the European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates by 25 basis points, the first cut since March 2016, and the beginning of a moderate retreat in Euribor rates that will allow relief in mortgage payments.
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