Borrowers rates 'unlikely to fall' - Guardian Unlimited

Story date: 2008-04-22 03:41:00
Added on: 2008-04-24 22:03:13

Mortgage lenders have warned the Government that rates for new borrowers are unlikely to come down despite Monday's intervention by the Bank of England. Some of the UK's biggest mortgage lenders, who met the Chancellor on Tuesday, are understood to ...


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