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Property sales rising steadily

The number of property sales continued to rise in September 2021 compared with the same month last year, according to figures released by the Department of Lands and Surveys earlier today.

During September 2021, a total of 914 contracts for the sale of property were deposited at land registry office across the Republic, an increase of 16% compared with the 768 contracts deposited during August 2020.

Sales have been improving since the COVID restrictions started to ease earlier this year, and the number of sales in September exceeded the pre-COVID number of sales achieved in September 2019 (692).

However, the figures will include an unknown number of ‘non-sale’ agreements such as loan restructurings, recoveries and debt-to-asset swaps agreed between the banks and defaulting borrowers in efforts by the banks to reduce their non-performing loan portfolios. Unfortunately, the Department of Lands and Surveys does not publish these figures separately.

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Sales have been encouraged by the government’s interest rate subsidy scheme, which will continue until the end of 2021. The ceiling for loans for house purchases was raised from €300,000 to €400,000 in February and the scheme provides an interest rate subsidy of 1.5% for a period of four years.

The Bank Lending Survey, which was published earlier today by the Cyprus Central Bank, reveal that Banks expect that net demand for all types of loans, from businesses and households will increase during the third quarter of the year.

Sales contract numbers 2020 2021 comparisonThe Department of Lands and Surveys has yet to release its analysis of the figures showing domestic and foreign sales. We’ll bring you the figures as soon as they become available.

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