02.22.2024

Victor Stinga, the interim CFO of Revolut, said the fintech wants to launch mortgages and savings accounts as a rising number of European clients, including Romanian ones, are starting to see Revolut more

01.16.2023

Sergiu Oprescu, Executive President of Alpha Bank Romania and General Manager of the International Network of the Alpha Bank Group has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the European Mortgage more

04.13.2022

Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service upgraded by one notch, to A2 from A3, the rating assigned to the mortgage covered bonds issued by lender Alpha Bank Romania. more

02.03.2022

New consumer and mortgage loans taken by consumers from banks, in lei and euros, accelerated in 2021 to a 15-year high, after declining in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Romania’s more

11.25.2021

Lender UniCredit Bank has opened the first Mortgage Center, in Bucharest’s Charles de Gaulle Square, which is intended exclusively for the mortgage lending activity. more

11.01.2021

NN Romania, one of the leading players on the life insurance market and the private pension sector, on Monday said it would complement its loan insurance package with mortgage brokerage services based more

09.15.2021

The balance of mortgage loans granted by lender Alpha Bank Romania exceeded RON6.29 billion (EUR1.28 billion) at the end of June 2021. more

03.19.2021

Romania's government on Friday decided to allot RON1.5 billion for this year's state-guaranteed mortgage lending program, which allows homebuyers to buy homes of up to EUR140,000. more

02.08.2021

Romanian real estate developer Impact (IMP.RO) said Monday it has signed two mortgage loan agreements with lender First Bank, consisting of EUR5.92 million for properties and RON4.5 million for VAT more

02.03.2021

New consumer and mortgage loans in lei and euros consumers took from banks fell by some RON2.7 billion or 7% from the 2019 level to RON34.3 billion in 2020. Last year was the first of decline for new more

01.29.2021

Mortgage loan volume went up by more than 9.8% or RON8 billion to RON89 billion lei year-on-year in 2020, and lenders offset the decline in consumer loans with the higher sales for buying a home. more

01.06.2021

Romanians took out more than 1.47 billion lei in new mortgage loans in lei in November, the highest level in the past year, with only October 2019 recording a slightly higher figure of RON1.48 more

12.14.2020

Romanians took out new mortgage loans worth 1.36 billion lei in October, the highest level in 2020. The volume was down 8.1% compared with the year-ago month. more

11.02.2020

Romanian consumers took out almost 1.26 billion lei (EUR260 million) worth of new mortgage loans in lei in September, the second highest level in the first nine months of 2020, and 4% higher than in more

10.15.2020

Romanians borrowed more than 1.2 billion lei in mortgage loans from banks in August, the third highest level in the first eight months of 2020 and 3.6% more than in August 2019. more

09.25.2020

Romanians took out almost 1.29 billion worth of new mortgage loans in lei in July, the highest level in seven months, and also 5% higher than in July 2019. more

08.25.2020

June lowered Romanians’ appetite for mortgage loans. New mortgage lending in lei went down compared with the previous months of 2020 and with the year-ago month. more

07.23.2020

The revamped version of Romania's subsidized mortgage lending program, pending government approval, doubles the loan cap for newly-built housing to EUR140,000 and triples the required down payment more

06.30.2020

ING Bank Romania is launching an offer for mortgage loans for customers opting for a downpayment of at least 25%, offering them a 0.5% interest rate cut. more

06.19.2020

New mortgage loans in Romania reached RON1.1 billion in April, 12% lower compared with March, as the country was in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and banking activities unfolded mostly more

05.19.2020

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02.13.2020

New consumer and mortgage loans in lei and euros taken by consumers from banks reached a new peak in 2019, 36.9 billion lei (EUR7.74 billion), RON1.1 billion more than in 2018 and over RON2 billion more

12.06.2019

The monthly installment to buy a two-room apartment in Bucharest has dropped to less than 60% of the net average wage in the country in September, from 251% in January 2008, at the peak of the more

08.23.2019

Romania's finance ministry has drafted a bill changing the state-subsidized mortgage lending program to benefit families with or without children, capping the required monthly income and the home more

07.26.2019

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