Payment shock in store for those on a fixed-rate mortgage

Story date: 2007-10-02 05:54:00
Added on: 2007-10-02 19:23:04

This is London - A mainstream mortgage payer being shunted into the sub-prime market could face crippling interest charges of up to 2.5 per cent higher ... Standard & Poor's says there are 80,000 people who are already classified as sub-prime whose fixed-rate deals will ...


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