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A last hurrah for mortgage interest rates?

Even if official interest rates remain at 0.5% this year as we expect, with lender’s margins under pressure, competition for retail funds still strong and regulatory costs more likely to rise than fall, we suspect that average mortgage interest rates will rise by perhaps 50bps during 2010.

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