The bank said 31% of the loans were granted in capital Bucharest, while 38% of loans were granted in towns with populations of over 200,000 inhabitants, such as Timisoara, Iasi, Cluj-Napoca, Constanța, Brasov, Craiova, Ploiesti, Galati, Oradea, and Braila, the banks said in a statement Monday.
The bank added 40% of First Home loans were granted to people aged 25 to 30, one third of loans went to people aged 31 to 35, and 24% of loans went to people over 35.
The youngest recipient of a First Home mortgage loan from BRD Groupe Societe Generale is 19 and the oldest is 62.
Of the nearly 25,000 loans granted, 61% were taken by men and 39% by women, and the average loan value stood at EUR39,000.