Mortgage rates have risen during the first half of 2022 and high inflation remains. Several banks are now lowering their long-term mortgage rates, including Handelsbanken’s Stadshypotek, SBAB, Länsförsäkringar and Skandia. However, interest rates are being lowered from already high levels.
The peak may have been reached
– There are small differences but a trend break and it is not impossible that they continue downwards, says Joakim Bornold, investment manager at the savings platform Levler.
He goes on to say that after a rapid rise in mortgage rates, it may be that we have reached the peak – at least for a while to come.
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