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*** "Fire on the bonfire of guilt" RIGHT NOW: Cold shower can await many households - Riksbank warns of new proposal 2024 11 14 Riksbank governor Erik Thedéen sends "a clear warning signal" to the Swedish people. The government is investigating a new proposal to scrap the tightened amortization requirement and raise the mortgage ceiling from 85 to 90 percent. This means that the cash contribution will be ten percent, instead of the current 15. One consequence will be that more people would be able to take out loans because the requirements for mortgages are reduced. But the proposal is a very bad idea, says the Riksbank a very clear warning signal, there will soon be advertisements that the banks have easier rules, that you need to amortize less, says Erik Thedéen to Sveriges Radio Ekot. The proposals aim to lower the threshold to get into the housing market, especially for young people.The investigation's assessment is that those who already have a home loan would also benefit financially. In this way, a debt trap could be avoided - by people not having to take out unsecured loans with sky-high interest rates when they need money. But the Riksbank does not buy that justification. Swedish households are already among the most leveraged in the EU and the effect could rather be a cold shower instead. This is because the new rules are "fueling the household debt bonfire", says Ekot. - We want this system to be robust for much worse crises, then we want a precautionary principle to be applied, says Erik Thedéen. The Riksbank: then it would have been even worse According to the Riksbank, it is the combination of amortization requirements, mortgage ceilings and the banks' credit checks that have protected households' resilience. If these did not exist, households in Sweden would be even worse off than today, the authority believes. - If macro supervision becomes less strict, it could lead to housing prices as well as household indebtedness growing rapidly again, especially given that interest rates are now falling. Such a development would mean that macroeconomic risks increase and, by extension, also risks to financial stability, writes the Riksbank in a statement. - In order for the housing market to function better, financial and structural policy measures are primarily required. Overall, changing macro supervision in such a way that household indebtedness increases is not a long-term sustainable solution. ***
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