Between December 2024 and summer 2025, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) reduced its key interest rate from 1 percent to 0 percent in three steps. As a result of these interest rate cuts, a broader debate has arisen about how quickly commercial banks are adapting their mortgage rates to key interest rates cuts. In June 2025, shortly before the SNB's last key interest rate cut, the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" headlined: "Why are mortgages becoming more ex…
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Between December 2024 and summer 2025, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) reduced its key interest rate from 1 percent to 0 percent in three steps. As a result of these interest rate cuts, a broader debate has arisen about how quickly commercial banks are adapting their mortgage rates to key interest rates cuts. In June 2025, shortly before the SNB's last key interest rate cut, the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" headlined: "Why are mortgages becoming more ex…