Historic data
Base rates
Historic data can help put current market trends into context, which is always useful if you’re planning ahead, see below for the trend of the UK Base Rate since 2004.
| Rate of Change | May 2004 |
Jun 2004 |
Aug 2004 |
Aug 2005 |
Aug 2006 |
Nov 2006 |
Jan 2007 |
May 2007 |
July 2007 |
Dec 2007 |
Feb 2008 |
Apr 2008 |
Oct 2008 |
Nov 2008 |
Dec 2008 |
Jan 2009 |
Feb 2009 |
Mar 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK Base Rate (%) | 4.25 | 4.50 | 4.75 | 4.50 | 4.75 | 5.00 | 5.25 | 5.50 | 5.75 | 5.50 | 5.25 | 5.00 | 4.50 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 1.50 | 1.00 | 0.5 |
