Foreign-currency mortgage debtors could be helped if they received the right to “walk away”, he added. In practice, this would mean that after all the debtor’s assets were sold the remaining debt would be cancelled.

A person who is forced to walk away from his or her home should be entitled to have their debt burden lifted, said Schadl.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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