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Protect your mortgage

In an effort to combat inflation, the Bank of England increased the base interest rate from 0.25% to 0.5% last week. What does that mean for your mortgage?

“The one in four mortgage holders who have a standard variable rate (SVR) will see their monthly payments rise almost immediately as banks pass on the 0.25% hike to their default mortgage rates,” says George Nixon in The Times.

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