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...“Previously, older borrowers may have used [mortgages] for home improvement, travel or to help a younger family member get on the property ladder,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, a mortgage...
...The very best rates have been slowly nudging down but positive inflation figures and the hold to base rate should add momentum to that trend,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages...
...David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, said borrowers on tracker deals are likely to be reviewing their positions....
...On an interest-only deal, that would fall to £917 a month, according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, said: “I don’t think we’re out of the woods in terms of the movement in fixed rates at the moment.”...
...“What’s opened the door to these improvements is the better than expected inflation figures,” said David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages, said: “Many [borrowers] may have lost track of how much fixed rates have improved since the pandemonium following the ‘mini’ Budget....
...For a borrower with a £200,000 mortgage over 25 years on a standard variable rate of 7.99 per cent, their payments will rise by £67 a month — or £800 a year — according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...However, “If people do lock in a rate, it doesn’t mean they have to take it when the time comes,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages....
...Borrowers under pressure Of course, the Conservative government is not popular and the UK is facing a series of linked crises....
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...David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C, said many lenders were yet to return to the high loan-to-value market in the wake of the “mini” Budget....
...David Hollingworth, director at L&C mortgages, said it was a “real positive” that some lenders had already started to come back with fixed rate mortgages, which should lead to “more competition, sharpening...
...“The base rate changes are coming thick and fast,” says David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C....
...“The people who are going to feel this immediately are on the variable deals — particularly those on standard variable rates,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages, notes that several lenders have increased their stress rates this month, and expects others to follow....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages, said the rise to 1 per cent could leave borrowers on a 25-year repayment mortgage at a standard variable rate of 4.24 per cent paying an extra...
...David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages, said: “Fixed rates have already reacted to the market expectation of a rate rise, so have been on the rise with the record low sub-1 per cent...
...rising,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages, says talk of an impending base rate rise and the resulting withdrawal and repricing of some of the historical lows in mortgage rates has put...
...David Hollingworth, director at broker L & C Mortgages, said lenders were moving to cut the flow of new business as they dealt with tens of thousands of requests for mortgage payment delays....
...David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages, praised TSB for “having a go” in an area of the market that many other lenders had long since eschewed, but added that the fleeting nature of the offer...
...I think the extent to which, really, Putin has become the state, it's like maybe - I might be getting the French king wrong, but I think it's Louis XIV who said, l'etat c'est moi - I am the state....
...“A lot of lenders moved away from accepting as much variable income as they did before the pandemic,” says David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C Mortgages....
...— a difference of £690 per year — according to estimates by broker L&C Mortgages....
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