Home owners could be paying nearly £5,000 extra a year for mortgages as interest rates on loans head towards seven per cent.
That will double this year’s projections for repossessions to 24,000 by 2024 according to an economic consultancy’s analysis of latest Bank of England figures.
Andrew Wishart of Capital Economics said: “The big risk is that the BoE can’t get inflation down and interest rates keep rising.