Falls in financial market interest rate expectations mean that mortgage rates will drop to a six-month low in December. That will support a further recovery in housing market activity in the near term. But, if we are right to think the Bank of England will keep interest rates at their peak for longer than investors anticipate and that unemployment will rise next year, the current downward trend in mortgage rates won’t continue.
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