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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Daniel O'Boyle

London has 19 of UK’s top 20 ‘risky mortgage’ postcodes

London dominates the list of postcodes with the most “risky mortgages” in the UK, with five South West London postcodes at the top, a new analysis has revealed.

A new analysis by Mazars found that 19 of the 20 postcodes with the most “risky” mortgages - defined by the Bank of England as those where the loan is at least 4.5 times the borrower’s earnings - were in London.

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