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Effects of credit squeeze ‘hard to predict’

October 27, 2007 by admin  
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How long the impact of the global credit squeeze on the mortgage markets will last is not easy to forecast.

According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), it is not yet clear how long the credit problems will continue to affect the number of mortgage products on the market.

Bernard Clarke, a spokesperson for the CML that there is uncertainty over when the credit market will return to “normality” and if that “normality” will be the same as before .

“There are implications within that for lenders operating in wholesale funding markets. The problems persist for now, and in the longer term we expect the wholesale funding market to improve and become more liquid, but perhaps it will not be as liquid as it was before,” he said.

Commenting on whether the credit squeeze will affect the types of products on the market, Mr Clarke added that time will tell how the government will set out to promote people taking on fixed-rate, long-term mortgages.

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