Denmark began issuing a mortgage for 20 years at 0%
Mortgage rates in Denmark dropped to historic lows. For the first time in the country's history, a local bank offered a mortgage for 20 years at 0%. Another lender set a negative rate for 10-year loans - agreed to pay borrowers instead of taking interest from them. Nordea Bank Abp in Denmark declared that it would offer a 20-year mortgage loan with a zero fixed rate. In accordance with the bank representatives, this is the first such phenomenon in the banking history of the country. Before this, in early August, Denmark's largest mortgage lender Realkredit Danmark announced that it would launch a mortgage for 30 years at a rate of 0.5% annually. Moreover, this week, Jyske Bank, the top three banks in Denmark, announced that it would soon begin issuing a 10-year mortgage with a negative rate of -0.5% per annum. That is, the borrower will receive money from the bank instead of paying interest on the taken mortgage loan. The lending rate of the Central Bank of Denmark is 0....