{"id":447285,"date":"2026-05-13T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447285\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:26:22","slug":"irish-mortgage-rates-inch-again-higher-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447285\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish mortgage rates inch again higher in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures from the Central Bank show that the weighted average interest rate on new Irish mortgages at the end of March rose slightly to 3.52%, up from 3.51% in February but down 24 basis points from the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s figures show that the equivalent euro area average was 3.40%, down from 3.41% in February.<\/p>\n<p>Irish mortgage rates continue to be the seventh highest in the euro area.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s figures show that Latvia had the highest average new mortgage rates in January with a rate of 4.12%, followed by Estonia at 3.93% and Lithuania at 3.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria had the lowest rate at 2.44%, followed by Malta at 2.55% and Spain with an average mortgage rate of 2.76%.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank said the weighted average interest rate on new fixed rate mortgage agreements, which constitute 90% of the volume of new mortgages, was 3.46% in March, unchanged from the previous month and down 12 basis points from the same month last year. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graph of euro zone mortgage figures \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/00245bea-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the weighted average interest rate on new variable rate mortgage agreements was 4.05% in March, down four basis points from February and 37 basis points lower in annual terms.<\/p>\n<p>The total volume of pure new mortgage agreements increased by 3% to \u20ac932m in March compared to the same month last year, the CSO added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures from the Central Bank show that the weighted average interest rate on new Irish mortgages at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-447285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}