Friday 12 January 2018

Housebuyers Benefit From Profits Squeeze On Mortgage Lenders

Mortgage borrowers are benefiting from intense competition on the high street following the biggest squeeze on profit margins for two years. The Bank of England reported that in the final three months of 2017, the difference between the central bank’s base interest rate and the average mortgage rates charged to borrowers “narrowed significantly”. The last time Threadneedle Street officials reported a sharp decline in the cost of borrowing was around Christmas 2015, before the Brexit vote, as the UK enjoyed its highest sustained rate of GDP growth since the 2008 crash and demand for homes rocketed. Read more on the Guardian website.

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