“Greece’s four largest banks, encouraged as the economy claws itself out of recession, plan to double mortgage lending this year and may do it again in 2015, according to Kalantonis. Home loan originations in Greece plunged from 15 billion euros at the peak in 2007 to less than 250 million euros ($340 million) last year, he said. [Banks] are counting on the growth rate of non-performing loans to stabilize once a law preventing banks from foreclosing on property is dismantled. The government, under pressure to strengthen banks after receiving a total of 240 billion euros in aid, is forcing homeowners, who can pay their mortgage but don’t, to do so.”
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