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The same mortgage, wildly different prices

A €300,000 loan over 25 years costs about €1,263 a month at Malta's 1.94 % — and about €2,065 at United States's 6.71 %. Same loan, €802 a month apart, €240,600 over the full term.

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Cheapest: Malta at 1.94 % €1,263/monthprincipal €300,000+€78,845 interestMedian: Austria at 3.54 % €1,508/monthprincipal €300,000+€152,494 interestMost expensive: United States at 6.71 % €2,065/monthprincipal €300,000+€319,549 interest
The solid block is the same €300,000 in every row — only the hatched interest differs, at each market's official new-mortgage rate over 25 years (standard annuity, rate held constant for the term: a comparison, not a forecast). Your own offer moves with equity, term and bank.
#CountryMortgage rate
1Malta1.94 %
2Sweden2.83 %
3Spain2.89 %
4Croatia2.91 %
5Portugal2.98 %
6Finland3.18 %
7France3.18 %
8Slovenia3.20 %
9Greece3.27 %
10Cyprus3.29 %
⋮ and at the other end
23United Kingdom4.92 %
24Norway5.60 %
25United States6.71 %

How to read this figure

The average interest rate on NEW home loans as reported by the official statistics of each country (ECB MIR for the euro area, Freddie Mac via FRED for the US, SSB for Norway) — not teaser offers, not renegotiations. Your own offer will differ with equity, term and bank.

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Computed live from the same snapshot as the mapLatest observation 31 Aug 2026Licence CC BY 4.0