Cost of two-year home mortgage loans highest since 2000 - Daily Telegraph

Story date: 2008-05-31 06:29:00
Added on: 2008-05-31 22:55:09

The interest rate for a two-year mortgage typically taken out by many first-time buyers is now almost 7 per cent for the first time since the turn of the millennium. In the latest sign of how the credit squeeze is pushing up borrowing costs for ...


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