Europe / United Kingdom · Business & Economy

Five-year mortgage rates hit 6% for first time in three years

Rank
Ran: 2h
Updated: 2d ago
Closed
Outlets: 3
Regions: 1
Countries: 1
Languages: 1

The Independent United Kingdom · English 5 Oct, 08:53 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

The only language so far · English, 3 reports

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Independent, 5 Oct, 08:53 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 08:53 UTC.
Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

The one country whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Europe 3 outlets · 1 country · 100%

First movers

The Independent 5 Oct, 08:53 UTC
BBC News +8m
The Guardian +2h 46m

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 1 country. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 3 outlets, 1 public-service, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article The Independent, 5 Oct 2026, 08:53 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 11:39 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by US mortgage rates reach nearly three-year high at 7.49%. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 5 Oct, 09:00 UTC · Updated 11:39 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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Europe 3 outlets

The Guardian United Kingdom 5 Oct, 11:39 UTC
Average five-year fixed mortgage rate hits 6% for first time in three years
The Independent United Kingdom 5 Oct, 10:58 UTC
Fixed mortgage rates hit grim new milestone as homeowners consider different options
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- Mortgage misery as average five-year deal hits 6% for first time in three years 5 Oct, 10:13 UTC
- Blow to homeowners as five-year mortgages hit 6% for first time in over three years 5 Oct, 08:53 UTC
BBC News United Kingdom 5 Oct, 09:02 UTC
Average five-year mortgage rate hits 6% for first time in three years