{"id":93467,"date":"2026-08-27T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93467"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:48:32","slug":"the-40-year-mortgage-trap-what-uk-lenders-arent-telling-you-about-stretching-terms-to-buy-a-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/the-40-year-mortgage-trap-what-uk-lenders-arent-telling-you-about-stretching-terms-to-buy-a-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"The 40-year mortgage trap: what UK lenders aren&#8217;t telling you about stretching terms to buy a flat"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2aDUnP.img?w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg\" alt=\"What Lenders Rarely Explain Upfront\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stretching a mortgage across four decades has quietly become one of the most talked-about ways for stretched buyers to get onto the property ladder.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrainmoments.com\/the-40year-mortgage-trap-what-uk-lenders-arent-telling-you-about-stretching-terms-to-buy-a-flat-883807.html\"> 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>\u00a0 \u00a0 Stretching a mortgage across four decades has quietly become one of the most talked-about ways for stretched buyers to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93467","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\/2023\/06\/mortgage-pbs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467","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=93467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93468,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467\/revisions\/93468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}