The Slovak National Bank reports that the country’s banks have handed out a total of €2.35bn in mortgage loans this year with a total of €302.8m of that having come in the last month. In all, the total volume of outstanding mortgage loans currently stands at €25.9bn, an increase of €2.8bn from the same time last year. Slovenska sporitelna is leading the market with 27.7 percent market share, ahead of VUB which is in second place with 21.59 percent. Tatra banka controls 13.87 percent of the mortage loan total.
