{"id":478700,"date":"2026-05-11T06:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:03:09","slug":"homeowners-rush-to-fix-their-mortgage-rate-ahead-of-expected-spate-of-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478700\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners rush to fix their mortgage rate ahead of expected spate of rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778479389_138_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mortgage holders are rushing to fix rates fearing that a spate of interest rate rises are on the way<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mortgage holders are rushing to fix their home-loan rates, fearing that a spate of rises are on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Large numbers of homeowners are also breaking out of existing fixed-rate arrangements to lock in to new fixed rates in a bid to shield themselves from expectations mortgage costs will jump, according to the Irish Independent Doddl Mortgage Switching Index for the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mortgage holders are rushing to fix rates fearing that a spate of interest rate rises are on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,2107,2190,4393,179,18,19,185,18929,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-478700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-charlie-weston","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-ecb","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116554433451256114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}