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Photo: Jiří Němec The Czech mortgage market expanded by no less than 38 percent in 2020, according to estimates published by the ČSOB bank group. Banks provided around CZK 250 billion in mortgage loans last year, which was a new record. ČSOB expects that this strong interest in housing loans will continue into 2021 – though it also says there is likely to be a 10-percent falloff in comparison with last year’s figures. The ČSOB group, to which the specialised ČMSS housing loans company and Hypoteční banka also belong, is the market leader in this field in the Czech Republic. ČSOB board member Jan Sadil told journalists on Thursday that the record growth was on the back of continued interest on the part of Czechs in purchasing their own homes as well as very low interest rates, which have been falling practically constantly since April. ....