
In February, 36,050 mortgages were constituted on homes, as recorded in the property registers, up by 16.1% compared to the same month in 2019, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Meanwhile, the capital loaned soared by 64.8% in inter-annual terms, albeit pre-coronavirus.
With this data, the signing of home mortgages has registered three consecutive months of increases after rising by 43% in December and by 6.1% in January.