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☆ UK mortgage rates surge to 15-year high after surpassing 'mini-budget' peak
  + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Suban Abdulla | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The average two-year fixed residential mortgage rate climbed to 6.66%, narrowly exceeding the 6.65% touched on Oct. 20 and the highest since August 2008 when it stood at 6.94%, according to data provider Moneyfacts. Governor Andrew Bailey said last month there were signs of more persistent underlying inflation pressures after the BoE unexpectedly raised its Bank Rate to 5% in an effort to tame the highest inflation rate among the world's big rich economies. Swap rates, a key measure lenders use to determine the cost of mortgage borrowing, have also soared. The surge has prompted major mortgage lenders to repeatedly reprice home loan offerings. British homebuyers typically take out mortgages with an interest rate that is fixed for two or five years, and then remortgage on to a new fixed rate or accept a variable rate.
Persons: Liz Truss, Andrew Bailey, BoE, reprice, Andrew Asaam, Suban Adbulla, Sachin Ravikumar, William Schomberg, Kate Holton, Andy Bruce Organizations: Bank of England, Nationwide, Lloyds Bank, Santander, Tuesday, Treasury, Lloyds Banking Group, Thomson Locations: Britain's, British, Halifax
☆ Squeeze on UK tenants tightens as rents outpace incomes, survey shows
  + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Suban Abdulla | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Asking and agreed rents continued to outpace incomes with tenants spending 28.3% of their pre-tax earnings on rent last month, above the 10-year average of 27%, Zoopla said. May's figures marked the 19th month in a row that rental price growth outstripped incomes. He expected affordability strains to slow the pace of rental growth in 2024. Inflation data for May is due to be published on Wednesday. Zoopla said 53% of renters it surveyed reported a rent rise in the six months to May, up from 35% six months earlier.
Persons: Toby Melville, Zoopla, Richard Donnell, Donnell, BoE, Moneyfacts, Liz Truss's, Zoopla's Donnell, Zoopla's, Suban Abdulla, Christina Fincher Organizations: REUTERS, Homeowners, Bank of, Nationwide, HSBC, Halifax, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Bank of England
☆ Surging mortgage rates bring early summer slowdown for UK housing market: Rightmove
  + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Suban Abdulla | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Average asking prices over the previous decade for this time of the year had increased by 0.6% on average, the survey showed. Nationwide, Halifax and HSBC were some of the major lenders that have announced a shake-up in their mortgage rates. British homebuyers typically take out mortgages with an interest rate that is fixed for two or five years, and then remortgage on to a new fixed rate or accept a floating rate. While Britain's housing market activity recovered in early 2023 from the autumn turmoil triggered by the economic agenda of former prime minister Liz Truss, analysts are waiting to see how much interest rates rises will hurt the sector. Bannister said the increases in interest rates and monthly mortgage payments could prompt prospective buyers to pause.
Persons: Rightmove, Tim Bannister, BoE, we've, Bannister, remortgage, Liz Truss, Suban Abdulla, David Milliken Organizations: Bank of, ., Nationwide, HSBC, Bank of England, British, Thomson Locations: Bank of England, British, Halifax
☆ How 'Real Housewife' Jen Shah's fabulous life came crashing down
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Stephanie Clifford | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +43 min
The woman wrote to the judge overseeing Shah's case that she'd had to remortgage her house, almost divorced, and "thought about ending my own life." The couple decided that he should get his degree while Jen Shah dropped out of college to work. (Shah told a judge at her 2022 plea hearing that she had been treated for "alcohol and depression" two years prior. Koa Johnson, Jen Shah's former fashion designerWhen Sharrieff Shah did participate in filming, he quickly became a fan favorite, calm and sensible. Once the show aired and Jen Shah developed a fan base, her behavior became more dramatic, Johnson said.
☆ Analysis: British banks' mortgage payday comes with sting in the tail
  + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Iain Withers Sinead Cruise Lawrence White | Iain Withers | Sinead Cruise | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
Banks are finding the home loan market stacked in their favour after years of low mortgage rates, but are also aware that bigger mortgage bills could spell trouble for cash-strapped customers. But the higher rates will hit borrowers hard. Mortgage payments as a proportion of gross household income were on average around 20% in June, according to BuiltPlace, a property market consultancy. They could rise to around 27% - the highest since the early 1990s - if mortgage rates were to rise to 6%, the consultancy said. The rise in mortgage rates will be a blow for millions of households' finances, Sue Anderson, head of media at debt charity StepChange said.
☆ UK mortgage borrowers are in for a nasty shock from soaring rates
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
London CNN Business —Millions of mortgage borrowers in the United Kingdom are bracing themselves for huge hikes to their monthly payments as a consequence of the run on the pound. Markets had already been expecting the central bank to raise interest rates to 4.75% by next spring. There are 9 million outstanding residential mortgages in the United Kingdom, according to UK Finance, an association of banks and financial services firms. About 20% of those loans are tracker, or variable rate products, that typically become more expensive when the central bank hikes rates. Halifax, owned by Lloyds Bank (LLDTF), removed some of its mortgage products, while Virgin Money stopped taking mortgage applications from new customers until later this week.
☆ The Truss tax plan cushions the wealthy while pushing borrowers toward a financial cliff
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
That’s because the Bank of England is now widely expected to hike interest rates even further to tackle inflation that will be exacerbated by the government’s sweeping tax cuts. That means many as 1.8 million borrowers are now hurtling toward a financial cliff as they prepare to refinance next year, when the mortgage rate may well have doubled. The vast majority (nearly two-thirds) of the tax gains go to the wealthiest one-fifth of households, according to one think tank estimate. According to the US Treasury, tax cuts reduced federal revenues by about 9% in the first couple of years. However, Congress eventually decided the sweeping tax cuts were unsustainable and, with Reagan’s approval, raised taxes by a lot in 1982.
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