Madrid (EFE).- The number of mortgages for the purchase of housing fell by 18.3% year-on-year last April and stood at 27,053 loans, with an average amount of 136,945 euros, which was 4.1% lower than the registered a year earlier.
According to data published today by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the average interest rate on these loans rose by 1.32 points in one year and stood at 3.09%, in a month in which a 61.3% of them were granted at a fixed rate and 38.7% at a variable rate.
In total, in April 35,621 mortgages were signed in total, a figure that includes mortgages on housing and those constituted on all types of farms, rural and urban, 18.7% less than a year ago. This figure also includes registration changes, which were 9,907, 23.1% less than in April 2023.