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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jonathan Prynn and Nicholas Cecil

Mortgage mayhem: London homeowners feel pain as repayments soar

The biggest mortgage crisis in more than 30 years will hit London hardest, bringing financial misery to thousands of homeowners in the capital, the Standard can reveal.

The huge home loans taken out by buyers to get a toehold on the property market mean they now face crippling rises in their monthly bills as fixed-rate interest deals on offer when rates were at all-time lows expire and have to be replaced.

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