{
  "id": 15064915,
  "title": "Banks will sign a record 500,000 mortgages for the second year in a row",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/la-banca-firmara-un-record-de-500-000-hipotecas-por-segundo-ano",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-16T22:07:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Expansion ES",
    "slug": "expansion-es",
    "url": "https://www.expansion.com/empresas/banca/2026/10/17/6ad25983468aeb6f688b4592.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "The Spanish mortgage market is expected to slow down in 2027 due to rising interest rates. Despite this, the Asociación Hipotecaria Española (AHE) predicts that 2024 will see 500,000 mortgages signed, the highest number in almost 20 years. In the first seven months of the year, 303,000 mortgage applications were approved, a 5.4% increase from the same period last year. The average mortgage amount has risen to 180,785 euros, a 17,000 euro increase from last year, while the Banco de España claims there is no risk of a housing bubble.",
  "summary": "This is the highest figure since the real estate bubble era, almost twenty years ago, when over a million loans were granted. Bankers believe the market will start to clearly deflate in 2027, due to the rise in interest rates.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}