The National Bank of Romania (BNR)’s Board of Administration approved on Friday a new set of rules concerning loans to individuals, on which occasion the BNR governor Mugur Isarescu stated that the Cen­tral Bank would not impose restrictions on foreign currency loans for home-buyers and that the initial provisions had merely been “tweaked”, without undergoing too many changes, Mediafax reports.

The Romanian real estate sector is still in a relative stagnation, and banks will probably keep a cautious stance about lending in the future too, given the share held by bad loans in their portfolios, finds a study of the consulting company KPMG – Klynveld Peat Main Goerdeler – quoted by Mediafax.