I thought I read, a very long time ago, that 100-year mortgages were common in t...

manarth · on Feb 12, 2017

There's a Fortune article which refers to Japan's 99-year and 100-year mortgages [1], in 1990.

However, here's a Telegraph article which is only a year old, reporting Sweden's average mortgage term is 140 years [2].

ptaipale · on Feb 12, 2017

In Sweden the average for new loans indeed was 140 years, but since then, the regulator has set a maximum of 105. That's still a long time of course.