Number and volume of new mortgages granted with refinancing and increase
100
thousand; ytd
Number this year
406
CZK billion; ytd
Volume this year
Number and volume of new mortgages granted with refinancing and increase
CBA Commentary
In December, banks and building societies actually granted new mortgage loans without refinancing for CZK 28.6 billion. The volume of externally refinanced and increased loans (internally or from another institution) fell to CZK 8.5 billion in December. This is 117% above the average CZK 3.9 billion refinanced last year and 295% above the CZK 2.2 billion refinanced in 2023. The share of refinanced loans in the total volume of mortgages granted then fell to 22.9%, which is above last year's average of 16.9%. Overall, banks and building societies granted new and refinanced mortgages in December in the volume of CZK 37.1 billion, which is 0.1% more than a month ago. The total volume of mortgages granted in the past year reached CZK 406 billion, which represents a 48% increase compared to January-December of the previous year.
Source of primary data
CBA Hypomonitor
Note
Includes new loans including refinanced and increased loans. A more detailed breakdown of the CBA Hypomonitor data is available in its monthly data supplement, see: https://www.cbamonitor.cz/publicistika/soubory/cba-hypomonitor-data
Comment by Jaromír Šindel, Chief Economist of the CBA: The Central Bank, through stricter requirements in the form of recommendations for investment mortgages, has decided to make a modest effort to correct mortgage demand on the real estate market, which remains very tight in terms of prices, mainly due to the supply side - see the drop in building permits.
Despite the slight correction, April continued to see strong volumes of new mortgages supported by another slight decline in the average mortgage rate to 4.65%.