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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jess Clark

‘It’s a bloodbath’: the UK homeowners on variable rate mortgages

A row of residential houses with the London skyline in the distance
Roughly half of those homeowners on variable rate mortgages are on a tracker or discounted rate deal, which are directly linked to the base rate. Photograph: Susannah Ireland/Reuters

“It’s a bloodbath, that’s the way I’d like to describe it,” says John*, a father of two struggling with the ever-increasing interest rate on his home loan.

He is one of the 1.4 million people in the UK on a variable rate residential mortgage, who have watched the monthly payments soar after the Bank of England raised the base rate to a 15-year high.

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