By Dimitris Kontogiannisi
THE GREEK REAL estate market has been buoyant for years, supported by low interest rates and double-digit growth in mortgage loans. However, residential mortgage-backed securitization has been slow to pick up. Bankers say this is likely to change as local banks seek to lower their funding costs and diversify their financing sources while loan growth remains healthy and outpaces deposit growth.
On the other hand, real estate sale and leaseback appears to be gaining ground among private sector companies and is expected to catch fire once the state gets involved, following the passage of a critical law in parliament expected in the next couple of months or so.
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