Mortgages

(asked on 16th January 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure mortgage rates remain affordable for customers.


Answered by
Lord Livermore Portrait
Lord Livermore
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 21st January 2025

The pricing of mortgages is a commercial decision for mortgage lenders in which the Government does not intervene.

At present, average mortgage rates are well below the recent peaks seen in Summer 2023 and Autumn 2022.

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