Financial Times - UK lenders raise mortgage rates as inflation fears intensify
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Britain’s biggest mortgage lenders have pushed through a new round of rate rises on fixed-rate mortgages, as rising UK inflation, higher oil prices and a global bond market sell-off rattled markets. Santander, HSBC, Nationwide, Lloyds, Halifax, Barclays and TSB raised rates this week by as much as 0.3 percentage points, driving up costs for borrowers and threatening to weigh on housing market activity as the autumn buying season gets under way.
Aaron Strutt, product director at broker Trinity Financial, said: “It seems likely there will be more to come. It’s never good when a lender’s new rates are live for a day and then they are pushed up again.”
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