Eurozone mortgage rates diverge sharply: Latvia at 4.18% vs Malta at 2.08%, ECB data shows
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Piero Cingari
Summary
Eurozone mortgage rates vary dramatically across member states despite sharing the same currency and central bank. ECB data from April 2026 shows Latvia has the highest rate at 4.18%, while Malta offers the lowest at 2.08% — a gap of over two percentage points. The average eurozone mortgage rate stands at 3.43%. Southern European countries generally offer cheaper rates, while Baltic borrowers pay roughly double what Maltese households do for home loans.
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· 5 pulledBorrow to buy a home in Latvia today, and the bank will charge you 4.18%. Do the same in Malta, and you will pay 2.08%.
Same currency, same central bank, same stage of the interest-rate cycle, yet two eurozone households face mortgage costs that are worlds apart.
That gap — more than two percentage points between the cheapest and most expensive markets — is one of the most striking findings in the latest European Central Bank data on new home loans, covering April 2026.
The average eurozone mortgage rate stood at 3.43%, according to ECB figures
Borrowers in the Baltics pay just over twice what Maltese households do for a home loan, ECB data to April 2026 shows.
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