el-beatle:
What makes you think that will happen. All indications are that rates are going to be low for some time to come. If rates did start to creep up, all you do is jump over to a fixed rate.
The indications are not there to say that rates will be low for some time! Any further decrease will have a significant effect on savers. The cut in rates have had very little effect so far as the banks are reluctant to pass on the cuts especially on new deals as they will end up losing money on them.
Rates have to go up in order to maintain the 'status quo' of the financial market. It is a tad naive to think that rates won't go up. In fact, its almost like saying there will be no more boom and bust, or house prices will never go down . Nine - twelve months until the first interest rate rise I believe which will coincide with a near bottoming out/correction of the housing fall ( aprox 15-22.5% more to go to 2002-2003 prices).