Spanish mortgages 65% cheaper since 2007

The mortgage market is currently in a more moderate position. from their highs in 2007, the monthly mortgage payment has increased from 976 euros per month on average to 378 per month in the first half of 2014, record lows. according to a report tecnocasa and Pompeu Fabra University is another indicator is the ratio between moderate monthly fee, and income has gone from receiving more than 60% of salary to 24%, a percentage "ultraconservative"

Evolution of the monthly mortgage payment

The ratio between the monthly mortgage and monthly income of the mortgaged should represent between 30% and 35%, according to experts. before the explosion of the housing bubble this ratio exceeded 60% since 2009 but a sharp drop of nearly 20 percentage points in a semester is observed. tecnocasa as this gives that "banks abruptly began to apply the credit orthodoxy that should apply from the beginning"

Ratio between the monthly mortgage and monthly income of the mortgaged

On the other hand, the percentage of mortgage financing, is down 86%, highs in the second half of 2006, up to 67% of the appraised value of the home in the first half 2014 report tecnocasa and Pompeu Fabra University indicates that "a loan to value below 70% implies an extremely conservative attitude of banks as well as a clear attempt to reduce the risk in lending to these entities granted"

Regarding the terms of mortgages, the study concludes that since 2009 a marked to grant mortgages short trend. thus, for example, in the first half of 2009 the percentage of 40-year mortgages was 45%, while for the first half of 2013 this figure was only 8%, just half that in 2012 for the first half of 2014 this trend is even more pronounced because for that period only 2.2% of mortgages were granted him to 40 years, while 30-year mortgages accounted for 60%

Also noteworthy is the significant increase since the bursting of the mortgage bubble within 30 years. in the first half of 2014 they accounted for almost 37% of the total, while in 2008 barely exceeded 16%

Term evolution of mortgages granted