This research uses mortgage product sales data to understand the impact of potential future macroeconomic changes on mortgage affordability.
Summary
In this research note, we explore the impact on mortgage affordability of potential future changes in interest rates and real income, integrating external macroeconomic forecasts and highly granular transaction data on UK mortgages.
This analysis helped inform the FCA’s guidance to firms. This sets out the flexibility firms have to support borrowers who are either in payment shortfall or are worried they may not be able to make future payments.
We will continue to monitor the situation as it develops and review data closely to understand how payment pressures feed into payment shortfall and arrears.
Authors
Guidogiorgio Bodrato, Karen Croxson, Kieran Keohane, Eric Morrison, Eoghan O’Brien
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