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1% interest rates is the new normal. The credit bubble is collapsing. We're looking at another 15 years of ZIRP; minimum.Originally posted by oliverson View PostIt is worrying that we have a whole generation of new home owners that have only ever experienced rock bottom interest rates. Before the crash, my mortgage rate was something like 4.5%. Going back further it was even higher. In the very early 90's I seem to remember them sky rocketing to over 13%!! Can you imagine what will happen to the market when rates do eventually rise to their normal levels? Example:
£ 300k mortgage over 25 years.
@2% - £ 1,280 a month
@5% - £ 1,773 a month
That's c. £ 500 per month increase, which is enough to put most people over the edge I would imagine, given people are maxing out on what they can borrow already.


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Originally posted by diseasex View PostOK, but I'm a doer, not talker.
Just not in London though, right?
The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by diseasex View PostOK I wonder what kind of "evidence" you have on me

Just a little…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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That's exactly what a compulsive liar would sayOriginally posted by diseasex View PostIf I was compulsive liar , you'd learn nothing.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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1694 posts full of unintelligible bollox at last count.Originally posted by diseasex View PostOK I wonder what kind of "evidence" you have on me

“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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liarOriginally posted by shaunbhoy View Post1694 posts full of unintelligible bollox at last count.

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