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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Mortgage rate panic causes home purchases to fall through as HSBC pulls loans

Home purchases are starting to fall through as a direct result of the extraordinary spate of turmoil in the mortgage market, brokers warned today.

Major lenders have withdrawn hundreds of deals over the past fortnight, often at short notice, as a result of soaring bond yields on expectations that interest rates will have to go higher to rein in inflation.

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