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🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money Podcast. I'm Georgie Frost and joining me today is editor Simon Lambert. |
0:04.7 | And coming up, the mortgage crunch as rates hurtle higher, should you take a tracker, |
0:09.7 | overpay or fix for longer? And are we witnessing a buy-to-let bounce back as landlords buy more homes |
0:15.5 | than they sold at the start of this year? Also today, should you try to get a social broadband |
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0:22.1 | and worse home insurance providers. But what makes a good one? And does anyone ever check |
0:27.0 | this stuff anyway before they buy? Don't forget you to upstate with all the latest breaking |
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0:43.0 | It's both. |
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1:00.0 | E. Toro, the power of social investing. Download E. Toro today from the App Store or Google Play. Your capital is at risk. But first, there is only one direction that |
1:07.9 | mortgage rates are going at the moment and it is not down. |
1:11.9 | Since the first base rate rise back in December, the interest rate on the average new |
1:16.1 | two-year fixed mortgage has risen by 0.5% from 2.38% to 2.89. That's according to money |
1:23.7 | fax. For equity rich homeowners, or those looking to buy with large deposits, |
1:27.9 | the difference is even more pronounced. Now, given that we're expecting the Bank of England |
1:32.0 | to move a few more times this year, expect that figure to rise even further. So what can we do |
1:38.8 | to manage this rise in mortgage rates? Simon, firstly, but of an economics 101. Why rates are going up? |
1:46.5 | Mortgage rates are going up because interest rates are going up. And interest rates are going up |
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