Mortgage interest rates

Returns the composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for house purchase loans in the euro area or a specific country.

Usage

ecb_mortgage_rates(country = "U2", from = NULL, to = NULL, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

country

Character. Country code: "U2" for the euro area aggregate (default), or an ISO 2-letter code such as "DE", "FR", "IT", "ES".

from

Optional start date.

to

Optional end date.

cache

Logical. Use cached data if available (default TRUE).

Value

A data frame with columns:

date

Date.

country

Character. Country or area code.

value

Numeric. Interest rate in percent per annum.

See also

Other credit: ecb_lending_rates(), ecb_money_supply()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(readecb.cache_dir = tempdir())
try({
  ecb_mortgage_rates(from = "2015-01")
})
#> ℹ Fetching mortgage rate data
#> ✖ Fetching mortgage rate data [30.1s]
#> 
#> Error in ecb_fetch("MIR", key, from = from, to = to, cache = cache) : 
#>   The ECB Data Portal returned a web page rather than data (HTTP 504).
#> ℹ This usually means the service is temporarily unavailable or under
#>   maintenance, rather than that the query is wrong.
#> ℹ Dataflow "MIR", key "M.U2.B.A2C.AM.R.A.2250.EUR.N".
options(op)
# }