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...Donnell expects the most notable fallout of 6 per cent-plus interest rates will be that fewer people move house....
...“House price falls have been modest over 2023, compared with a 20 per cent reduction in buying power [if they kept their mortgage repayments the same],” says Richard Donnell, Zoopla’s executive director...
...Richard Donnell, research director at property website Zoopla, says that if mortgage rates were to fall to 4 per cent next year, the market would be relatively unaffected....
...— and are now going to have to remortgage at much higher rates at a time when food, utility and fuel prices have also increased markedly,” says Adrian Anderson, director of the mortgage broker Anderson Harris...
...Lenders are already aware of the risks of exposure to the student market, and are asking questions of landlords seeking to remortgage or buy, according to Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker...
...But, despite a “ripple of activity on the higher value properties”, said Jonathan Harris, director at the mortgage brokers Anderson Harris, “most people are keeping their powder dry to see what is going...
...Jonathan Harris, mortgage broker at Anderson Harris and adviser to the Weybridge resident, has noticed a substantial rise in the number of his clients following suit....
...Adrian Anderson, director at broker Anderson Harris, said a non-UK resident had called on Friday morning to accelerate a purchase....
...Mr Donnell says this stands in contrast to the trend outside the capital....
...“This is about return of capital, not a time when investors want a return on capital,” says William O’Donnell, strategist at RBS Securities....
...Bill O’Donnell, strategist at RBS Securities, said the auction “will prove to be a more interesting test, particularly if 30-year yields remain near 3 per cent.”...
...Or as Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank, puts it: “The US will be like Japan for the next couple of years due to the contraction in credit and debt overhang.”...
...Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross, GCB : Sir Gus O’Donnell, cabinet secretary....
...“In Japan QE worked, but it never clicked,” says Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank. “The concern is what happens once QE subsides.”...
...Richard Donnell, director of Hometrack, a housing information business....
...deliciously by Harriet Harris....
...The deal, which ministers seem not to have known about until later, appears to have been signed off by Sir Gus O’Donnell, cabinet secretary and head of the home civil service....
...This is the future,” says Graham Harris, managing director of Dartford Borough Council....
...Andrea Rozario, a financial adviser with Essex-based equity release specialists Rozario Harris & Co, says: “Once the public have become aware of the safeguards, the flexibility and just how positive an impact...
...“The recession clock in the US ticks steadily closer to midnight,’’ said William O’Donnell, strategist at UBS....
...Recently, King has not only played with his long-term doubles partner, Gus O’Donnell, the new cabinet secretary, but also with former number one player Martina Hingis....
...It wouldn’t take much – the merest nip and tuck – to lift that, according to Michael O’Donnell, LGV’s managing director....
...Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, another long-time contact, could not attend but sent a message of appreciation....
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