The increasingly easy access to loans, economic instability and rising constructions costs shaped up a quite tense start to the year for the housing market. Thus, in the first four months of 2025 the number of deals with apartments in Romania declined by almost 9% against the year-earlier period.
Romania banks are at the bottom of the European ranking in terms of profitability per client, with just EUR77, in the context of a EUR168 average in Eastern Europe and a record high EUR238 at the level of the entire Europe, reveals the European Retail Banking Radar report compiled by global consultancy Kearney.