This means, if you took out a 10 year fixed rate mortgage at the start of 2022, you would be paying about 1% interest and now it would be 2%.
Figures out earlier this week showed that the number of mortgages taken out in the first three months of the year was up 37% on a year ago.
‘Dutch people are taking a bit of step back from the market because of the increased prices and shortage of supply,’ he says.
Of course, there are many other uncertainties facing the housing market, and no-one yet knows what the impact of the war in Ukraine and soaring inflation will be.
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In addition, we still don’t know what the impact of changes in working patterns will be.
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