{"id":93457,"date":"2026-08-27T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93457"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:57:29","slug":"londoners-see-buying-power-crash-as-mortgage-rates-remain-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/londoners-see-buying-power-crash-as-mortgage-rates-remain-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Londoners see buying power crash as mortgage rates remain high"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2aZPtJ.img?w=768&h=511&m=6\" alt=\"Government Proposes Leasehold Flats Ban\" width=\"623\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Londoners have seen their buying power plummet more than anywhere else in the country thanks to rising mortgage rates, new research from Zoopla shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/loan\/londoners-see-buying-power-crash-as-mortgage-rates-remain-high\/ar-AA2aZPtR?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6fefcf08ba084712e67076249836a6d8&cvpid=db6ee0bd75c74fa28a473549a322a20b&ei=78\">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>Londoners have seen their buying power plummet more than anywhere else in the country thanks to rising mortgage rates, new research from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cost-of-living-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/High-mortgage.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93457","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=93457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93458,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93457\/revisions\/93458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}