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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Anna White

Property market forecast: as the cost of mortgages overtakes renting, should you buy a London home in 2023?

Against a backdrop of rising interest rates, the cost-of-living crisis and growing fears of a recession, the cost of servicing a mortgage in London now dwarfs the cost of paying rent.

Although house prices have started to fall, it now costs £832 more a month to make mortgage repayments than to rent a property in the capital, which is the reverse of the traditional dynamic — according to exclusive data seen by Homes & Property.

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