Rat and Mouse
Thu
21
May
Interest rates, going nowhere any time soon; mortgages, more interesting
Howard Archer, of the consultancy IHS Global Insight, said: The MPC's 9-0 vote in favour of unchanged interest rates in May and the lack of any discussion about whether they should be moved at all reinforces the belief that interest rates are highly likely to have troughed at 0.5 per cent but are not going to rise for some considerable time to come.

The article goes on to cite the new Lloyds 95% mortgage - which accepts a 5% deposit on the basis that 20% of the loan value is held in a Lloyds savings account... effectively an insurance or guarantor element which can be provided friends or family - as an example of a new breed of innovative mortgages set to launch on top of the new interest rate stability. Watch this space.

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