Swap Rates have finally reduced by 10% across 2, 5 and 10 years. Hopefully with the announcement inflation has fallen from 8.7% to 7.9% earlier today, this may be an indication markets have reached a turning point with less volatility and return to normality giving a bit of breathing space to distressed homeowners.
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Swap Rates continue to rise with lenders again withdrawing products to reprice. House prices are down slightly with the average typical UK property costing £285,932 down from the peak last August of £293,992 and Bond Yields surge to a 15 year high as financial markets predict interest rates will climb over 6.5% in 2024. If
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Following the interest rate increase by the Bank of England (BoE) last week Swap Rates have slowly risen to the point where lenders have been forced to withdraw, reprice and relaunch products with higher rates.
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The Bank of England (BoE) has today raised interest rates for the 13th consecutive time by a further 0.50% taking the Base Rate from 4.50% to 5.00% pushing the rate to it’s highest level since 2008 in a further attempt to reduce stubborn headline inflation. lenders have already reacted to volatile Swap Rates this week
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We continually search for ways to help our clients obtain cheaper mortgage products but volatility and rising swap rates leading to increased or withdrawn mortgage products is a concern for everyone. To help plan for the future we are able to book mortgage funds up to 90 days prior to submission of a mortgage application
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Swap Rates have risen again sharply this week with 2 years swaps increasing by over 0.5% that has led to lenders again withdrawing rates and re-launching with higher products that reflect the change. The increase is largely due to economic volatility with another Base Rate rise widely predicted by the Bank of England (BoE) when
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Last week saw a sharp rise in swap rates following negative Bank of England (BoE) and Office for National Statistics (ONS) announcements but data gathered earlier today shows 2, 5 and 10 year Swap Rates have levelled off as lenders re-launch products with increases between 0.35% and 0.5%.
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The number of residential mortgage products has fallen by almost 7% from 5,385 deals to 5,012, while the number of buy-to-let mortgages has decreased by 14% from 2,748 deals to 2,343 in the last week which is having the predicted impact on mortgage rates with the average rates on a two and five year fixed
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Several lenders have been forced to withdraw their mortgage products over the last 24 hours in the face of ongoing Swap rate volatility and the adjustment funding markets are making in anticipation of further increases by the Bank of England (BoE). The changed expectation follows the release of data from the Office for National Statistics
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) confirmed inflation has eased to 8.7% in April down from 10.1% in March, following a recent peak of 11.1% in October 2022. The easing has been attributed to gas and electricity price changes while other categories such as recreation, alcohol, tobacco, communication and transport increased. Although headline inflation has
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