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“Tracker mortgages are directly influenced by the Bank of England base rate. Fixed rate mortgages aren't. They're based on swap rates,” Mortgage Expert Sarah Tucker explains when asked why mortgage rates are rising despite the Bank of England announcing no change to the base rate today. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00So tracker mortgages are directly influenced by the Bank of England base rate.
00:03Fixed rate mortgages aren't.
00:05They're based on swap rates in the background and they've been steadily increasing.
00:09Swap rates are looking at inflation, energy prices,
00:12what they think the Bank of England will do now and in the future.
00:15And that's why the fixed rate market isn't directly correlating with the news we had today.
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