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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Phillip Inman Economics writer

Mortgage cost rises: how other countries compare with the UK

A house for sale in Bethesda, Maryland, US
A house for sale in Bethesda, Maryland. Many US mortgages are fixed for 15 to 30 years. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

The big increases in monthly mortgage costs Britons are facing “just don’t happen here”, says Roger Bartlett, who bought a home in Belgium while working in the country as an air traffic controller.

He says his experience was the same in the Netherlands, where mortgages with 30-year repayment terms are the most common loans used by homebuyers.

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