Many banks only offer a fixed interest rate for 10 years and then want to sell expensive building savings contracts or even finance through an insurance company and fix it there for 20 years.
Personally, I have not yet found a bank that fixes the interest rate for 20 years on an annuity loan.
Do you have any experience with this or can even give a recommendation?
A colleague at work took out financing at the Sparkasse just over 3 months ago and got the interest rate fixed for 20 years. Of course, there are percentage surcharges the longer you want to secure the interest rate.
I myself never had a single bank that didn’t offer at least 15 years. Back then, the "interest-wise" strongest competitor was the Commerzbank. However, they did not offer a repayment change. But in the end, we also signed with the Sparkasse (not our house bank) because the offer was (hard for me to believe) unbeatable.
I would never have thought myself to inquire about financing with them because they were always more expensive than everyone else. An intermediary got us the offer.
Oh yes, and Hypovereinsbank and Deutsche Bank also offered 20 years. But that was not an option for us since we did not need longer than 15 years.