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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Wood

New mortgages up by £800 a year amid ‘Trumpflation’ from Iran war

Model houses on a pile of coins and bank notes
The average two-year fixed mortgage interest rate has jumped from 4.83% at the start of March to 5.28% now, Moneyfacts says. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Britons taking out a new home loan face paying almost £800 a year more on average than before the Iran war as “Trumpflation” pushes up UK mortgage rates, according to Moneyfacts.

Nearly 700 mortgage deals have been pulled by lenders as the economic fallout from the war results in the biggest upheaval since the aftermath of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget in 2022.

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