Banks: Abi, rates rising but demand for mortgages does not slow down

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 17 - Interest rates on new bank loans rise in April to 1.82% (excluding charges and expenses) but remain "at very low levels" and the demand for the purchase of homes continues.

This is what the ABI states in its monthly report, underlining how in March loans to families for home mortgages grew by 5.2%.

As the deputy dg Gianfranco Torriero explained in the presentation of the data, "the increase is of a few tenths of a point and impacts on the rate" in an unlimited way but does not slow down "the desire to request mortgages which instead benefit from a real estate market in resumption" also "in the form investment ".

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