From: "Stephen Burke" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Mortgage rates and inflation
	charset="Windows-1252"
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:10:01 +0100

Andy Pandy  wrote:
> most people can't afford to pay their mortgage interest plus make the
> necessary capital repayments to shrink the real value of their
> mortgage as fast as in the good old days.

Do you have any evidence to back that up? I don't think it's true, as far as
I'm aware few lenders will lend over the traditional salary multiples and that
should leave lots of headroom for overpayment.

-- 
Stephen Burke