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It's time for our new story of the week now and the biggest new story that we have to

cover this week is the Bank of England have moved up interest rates again up 0.25%

which points to 4.5% in total.

Now it is a big new story because it impacts us all as property investors and it impacts

us on a day-to-day level as well but it wasn't shocking news because it was expected Rob.

So everyone who semi follows what's happening around interest rates expected this but

I suppose the big question is and I'll leave it to you to answer Rob which is what's next

this has happened and what's expected but what can we expect next for interest rates.

What obviously the Bank of England is not committing to anything but from the language

around it get the impression that if this isn't the peak we're very close to it.

To win the Bank of England and the Fed make an announcement about this there's kind of

two parts to it there's the thing that they do and then there's the commentary around

it and normally the thing that they do like you said is already anticipated people have

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