The Romanian new mortgage market is projected to exceed €5 billion in 2025, with over 76,000 loans granted, excluding refinances and restructurings, according to a report by Ipotecare.ro and SVN Credit Romania.
A similar level of the instalment/wage ratio was registered in 2022, when the average instalment for a mortgage loan granted in Bucharest held a percentage of 44%.
Romania remains one of the countries with the lowest mortgage penetration rates in the European Union, according to a Colliers' analysis.
Mortgage loans totaling €7.3 billion were granted in Romania during the first 10 months of 2024, up by 43% compared to the same period of last year, according to an analysis by SVN Romania.
The total balance mortgage balance in payment increased almost fourfold in the last 16 years, from €5.7 billions in 2008 to €21.7 billion today.
Mortgage loans worth €5.5 billion were granted in total at a national level in the first eight months of 2024, up 49% compared with the same period of last year, according to data from the National Bank of Romania (NBR).
The study reveals that 83% of Romanians have a plan for their upcoming vacation season. Only 6% do not intend to go on holiday, while 12% have yet to finalize their arrangements.
Travel tech company FlixBus is adding new international coach connections from Romania to Greece and bolstering existing routes to Bulgaria.
EDP, through its subsidiary EDP Renewables, has opened its largest solar park in Romania, located in Albina, taking its total solar and wind capacities in the country to 570 MW.
Dan Air, a private Romanian airline, inaugurated its regular flight service between Bucharest and Damascus on June 15.
Romanian patients wait, on average, 460 days to access innovative medicines, even after these therapies have been approved for reimbursement by the National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (ANMDM).