{"id":51863,"date":"2023-10-30T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=51863"},"modified":"2023-10-30T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:47:35","slug":"japans-lifetime-mortgages-used-to-make-us-laugh-now-theyre-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/japans-lifetime-mortgages-used-to-make-us-laugh-now-theyre-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s lifetime mortgages used to make us laugh. Now they&#8217;re almost here"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49410\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/property-ladder-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/property-ladder-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/property-ladder-360x225.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/property-ladder.jpeg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your starter for ten. When was the average\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/interest-rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">interest rate<\/a>\u00a0on newly drawn\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/mortgages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">mortgages<\/a> last above 5%?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/japan-s-lifetime-mortgages-used-to-make-us-laugh-now-they-re-almost-here\/ar-AA1j5OF9?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=444a7909085643e69ddb54319fc73118&amp;ei=119\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Your starter for ten. When was the average\u00a0interest rate\u00a0on newly drawn\u00a0mortgages last above 5%?\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NatWest.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51864,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51863\/revisions\/51864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}