More home buyers are resorting to mortgages to buy London’s most expensive houses and flats as rising prices drag them into higher tax brackets.
Seventy-four per cent of homes costing £1 million (US$1.4 million) or more in the British capital were bought with a mortgage in the three months through July, up from 65 per cent a year earlier, according to Hamptons International. The figure was as low as 31 per cent during the depths of the financial crisis in 2009.
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Source : South China Morning Post
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