Euribor
The Day the Rate Resets
A benchmark becomes a mortgage payment on one scheduled morning, and the number it uses is already old.
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Reset a €200,000 mortgage at any Euribor of the last five years.
Thirty years, level payments, a spread agreed once at signing and never revisited. The only thing that changes at each reset is the index. Twelve-month Euribor was −0.505% in January 2021 and +4.160% in October 2023, and the comparison below is against that 2021 low.
Monthly payment
€954.83
€200,000 over 30 years
- Rate you actually pay
- 4%
- Against the January 2021 payment
- 59.69%
Euribor + spread
When the same loan cost about €598 a month
Low −0.505% (Jan 2021), peak +4.160% (Oct 2023), 2.954% in August 2026.
Fixed for the life of the loan. It never resets, and it never falls.
Compare the 2021 low with the 2023 peak, and leave the payment at least 50% above the low
- Try -0.5% — not yet
- Try 4.25% — not yet
- Compare the 2021 low with the 2023 peak, and leave the payment at least 50% above the low — done
Answer to continue.