Rate cuts are reducing aggregate mortgage payments

The rise in mortgage payments facing borrowers coming off fixed rate mortgages has fuelled talk of monetary policy “pushing on a string”. In fact, the fall in payments of households with tracker or standard variable rate mortgages has, in aggregate, been much bigger. But whether these households spend the extra money is another matter.

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