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Base rate cut: are clients already getting in touch?

ended 19. December 2025

Following today’s Bank of England base rate cut, we're interested to hear whether brokers are already seeing clients make contact to discuss what this means for their mortgage.

It feels as though many borrowers have been primed for this decision and are quick to react, rather than waiting until their product end date is closer.

We're keen to hear views from across the industry:

  • Are clients more anxious about their finances than in previous years?
  • Has the sustained focus on the Budget, inflation and the cost of living increased awareness around rate changes?
  • Are borrowers becoming more proactive, or simply more worried?

It would be useful to understand your thoughts on whether this reflects underlying financial pressure, or a shift in how engaged clients are with mortgage news.

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Rohit Kohli
Director at The Mortgage Stop
We’ve definitely seen an immediate reaction today. Clients aren’t panicking, but they are paying attention. Most of the conversations aren’t from people in trouble right now. They’re from borrowers trying to understand whether this changes their options and if they can make a saving. My sense is this is less about a single rate cut and more about confidence. After months of headlines around inflation, the Budget and cost pressures, people are much more engaged and quicker to act when something finally shifts in their favour. Positively we heard from clients who deals are due to end early next year and want to get the ball rolling now. It also feels people have been waiting for this cut more keenly because household finances are stretched, after a prolonged period where policy decisions have added pressure rather than relief.
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Shaun Sturgess
Director at Sturgess Mortgage Solutions
Yes, clients were in touch almost immediately after the base rate cut. Not because anything had actually changed overnight, but because many people still think the Bank of England base rate and fixed mortgage rates move together, which they don’t. By the time the Bank acts, lenders have usually priced it in weeks ago.

It really highlights how poor financial education still is. Most of us left school knowing Pythagoras’ theorem which I’ve never once used when arranging a mortgage, yet no one explained interest rates, credit scores or how borrowing hundreds of thousands of pounds actually works.

A mortgage is the biggest financial commitment most people will ever make, but it’s barely covered. So when a headline mentions a rate cut, phones light up.

Clients aren’t more anxious, they’re more engaged. Years of inflation and cost-of-living headlines have made people quicker to react. Our job is separating fact from noise and making sure decisions are based on reality, not headlines.
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Mike Staton
Director at Staton Mortgages
We've had an abundance of clients contact us to see if there is a better rate now available on the market, and so they should. Any good broker worth their wait in salt would want to help their client get the best deal available. Whether it is worth doing it depends on fees, savings and external costs such as solicitors. If it's worth it do it. But do bare in mind, some lenders may want to send your application back to underwriting if you make a material change such as change the product, this comes with the risk of the application being declined so you seriously need to weigh up your options before you take what could be a gamble. Just because they have offered you a mortgage, the lenders criteria and affordability could have changed since your mortgage offered and their is a chance you no longer meet criteria or affordability this time round.