What exactly is the IRPH index and how can I know if my mortgage has it

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E

stands for

.

It is an indicator of mortgage loan interest rates and is prepared by the

.

This has been operating since 1994 and is officially called the

.

According to the definition given by the Bank of Spain, it is calculated as "

weighted

of the loan operations with mortgage guarantee for a term equal to or greater than three years for the acquisition of free housing initiated or renewed by the Banks and boxes of savings".

In 2013, when the

collapsed due to Mario Dragui's monetary policy of rate cuts, the European index

while

index

.

This made the mortgage referenced by the IRPH

.

The consumer associations denounced as they assure that the conditions linked to these products were not clear.

To find out if a mortgage is referenced by this index, you have to

and go to the interest or variable interest rate headings.

Another way to find out if the loan is governed by the IRPH is to check the mortgage receipts and find out

.

If this is the case, our mortgage and the expenses generated retroactively can be appealed.

Declared abusive

On March 3, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled that

Therefore, he urged the Spanish courts to study the conditions and if they came to the conclusion that they are abusive, they could replace them with a legal index applicable in a supplementary way to protect consumers

after the CJEU decision but this was postponed from September 30 to October

due to the pandemic.

The European court recalled that

, used in 90% of the mortgage loans signed in Spain.

The IRPH accounted for less than 1% of mortgages at the beginning of 2020, in the past it was 10% of the total.

The

between a mortgage loan that has the Euribor as a reference and one that is governed by the Spanish index reaches

in total.

The first judgments in this regard in Spain, issued in the courts of Lleida and Burgos, cancel the mortgage index and replace it with the Euribor.

"It is not proven [that] the defendant entity provided specific information regarding the scope or operation of this type of reference by virtue of which they could assess whether it was interested in the loan with this type of reference or a loan referenced to Euribor", concluded a of the sentences.

Precisely that "contractual clauses must always meet the requirement of clear and understandable wording" was also indicated by the CJEU.

Consequences for banking

In the event that justice ruled in favor of consumers,

according to a Goldman Sachs report prepared before the CJEU ruling.

At present the entities that have mortgages governed by the aforementioned index are:

(through its mortgage subsidiary UCI),

,

or

, among others.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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