Government
November 3, 2017
With the rising base rate, luxury real estate owners will be paying higher mortgages. Image credit: Knight Frank
By Danny Parisi
The Bank of England has raised the United Kingdom’s base interest rate for the first time in a decade, in an effort to combat spiraling inflation in the country in the wake of the Brexit vote.
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