Cliff Taylor

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1,456 appearances 11 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Because the average mortgage level has risen pretty significantly yet.

Are incomes keeping up with that?

Can people borrow enough to buy at current prices?

And is most of the business now with first-time buyers, given the shortage of stock in the second-hand market?

Or what's the breakdown?

Now, the policymaking committee of the European Central Bank is meeting tomorrow.

You and I are old enough to remember the days when we didn't know what central banks were going to do when they met.

But it's all kind of more or less advertised in advance now.

And it looks like an increase is on the way.

And what will that mean for the...

For the average mortgage holder, as they say.

Yeah, do we think this is the start of a cycle, so, of increases?

Okay, so we could be looking at a...

what, 100 euro extra per month before the new year is out.

When people take out new mortgages, do they, I presume part of the stress testing is that they can cope with these kind of increases.

Yeah.

It doesn't say it won't hurt, but it means people should be able to cope.

As you say, they're perhaps being squeezed on other fronts as well.

Yeah.

So with the person on the tracker who...

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