Since the advent of the credit crunch the UK population has been in an extremely unsettled financial situation.
Many people have lost their jobs due to redundancy. This redundancy is sometimes caused by a firm cutting down on the number of people in the work force or by the total closure of the firm itself.
More fortunate individuals are still in the same employment now as before the start of the recession, but their incomes are less than before as some people are now on a shorter working week.
With all aspects of economic life at home so constantly changing many house holds were anxious to keep one thing in life the same every month.
This aspect of life over which they had control was their mortgage or remortgage.
More and more people opted for a fixed rate mortgage or remortgage whether they wanted to remortgage to move their existing mortgage from their current lender to another or whether they wanted additional funds via a remortgage.
With a fixed rate remortgage or mortgage the homeowner has the security of knowing exactly how much he will pay for his mortgage each month for a specific number of years which could be anything from one to ten years.
This allowed for some sort of financial certainly in uncertain times.
Now however some remortgage and mortgage lenders have reduced the interest rates for their variable products while at the same time keeping their fixed rates at the same rate as before.
Some mortgage lenders have reduced the interest rates of their variable remortgages and mortgages while at the same time keeping the fixed rates as before.
This has caused a huge fall in requests for fixed rates, as they are simply now considered too expensive, and in the course of the last two months two thirds of those seeking a remortgage or mortgage are choosing a variable rate.
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