Although market interest rates edged down in September, mortgage interest rates remained stable. As a result, mortgage lending spreads, already at unprecedented levels, widened further. We suspect that, while they partly reflect higher costs of other types of mortgage funding, the high level of spreads is also a result of lenders trying to ration mortgage credit.
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