{"id":443266,"date":"2026-05-11T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443266\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:14:09","slug":"iran-peace-deal-could-be-good-news-for-homeowners-with-paused-mortgage-rate-hikes-and-lower-energy-bills-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443266\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran peace deal could be good news for homeowners \u2013 with paused mortgage rate hikes and lower energy bills, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A deal in the Middle East could change planned hikes in mortgage interest rates plus increased prices for gas and oil. Image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ce3d18d2-ce58-41d9-8965-2981eaf77443.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)\">A deal in the Middle East could change planned hikes in mortgage interest rates plus increased prices for gas and oil. Image\/Getty<\/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)\">Homeowners are set to benefit from a peace deal in Iran, as an end to the conflict could pause interest rate hikes for mortgages and keep energy bills lower.<\/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)\">Hopes the US and Iran were closing in on a dramatic peace deal rose sharply last week after US President Donald Trump announced a pause on plans to guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, citing \u201cgreat progress\u201d in talks with Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deal in the Middle East could change planned hikes in mortgage interest rates plus increased prices for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,11829,60,5913],"class_list":["post-443266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-sean-pollock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}