Households with mortgages are cutting back on unsecured borrowing

Darren Ferneyhough | Unsecured Loan News | Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

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Figures released by Alliance & Leicester priced web illustration cheap windows ultimate claim that windows 7 ultimate key to buy Since July 2006, homeowners with mortgages have actually reduced their unsecured borrowings by an windows 7 ultimate key to buy average of £197 (3%). By contrast households without mortgages to windows 7 ultimate key to buy pay have continued to take out loans and use their credit cards – although at a much slower pace than in the past – on average increasing their unsecured debt by £98.

In addition, the windows 7 ultimate key to buy appetite for personal loans and credit card debt has diminished. Credit card borrowing grew at its slowest rate on record (4%) last year, below the windows 7 ultimate key to buy level of inflation and unsecured personal borrowing grew at its slowest rate since 1994.

Alliance & Leicester believe that base rates would need to reach 8.5% before people experience the windows 7 ultimate key to buy same level of financial strain as they did in 1990, when windows 7 ultimate key to buy on average homeowners spent almost a third of their income (30.1%) on interest payments on their borrowings. Currently interest payments represent just under a windows 7 ultimate key to buy sixth of household income (16.5%), up from the low of 14.1% three years ago.

Spokesperson Chris Rhodes said: “We have windows 7 ultimate key to buy entered 2007 with a reduced appetite for borrowing and house buying since last summer. Our latest survey suggests that windows 7 ultimate key to buy another base rate rise could cool the housing market further.”

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Mr Rhodes adds: “Consumers have windows 7 ultimate key to buy shown an unprecedented appetite to reduce their unsecured borrowing, while their incomes have windows 7 ultimate key to buy continued to grow and interest costs on their unsecured borrowings have windows 7 ultimate key to buy fallen. This will have taken some of the sting out of the windows 7 ultimate key to buy latest increase in base rates.”

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Mr Rhodes continue: “With the average mortgage borrower having well over £100,000 of equity in their homes, many of those who windows 7 ultimate key to buy remortgaged will have taken the opportunity to pay down some of their unsecured borrowings – this windows 7 ultimate key to buy may partly explain the decline we have seen in their personal borrowing and windows 7 ultimate key to buy credit card balances.”

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