I rent a two-bedroom flat with my best friend. We are both single, with similar incomes and have recently talked about buying a house together.
Unsecured lending to consumers rose by 1.191 billion pounds ($1.51 billion) in net terms, less than the 1.3 billion-pound increase which was the median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists, and down from the 1.637 billion pounds rise in June.
The pace of growth in consumer credit over the 12 months to July slowed to 7.3%, the slowest increase since December last year. ($1 = 0.7913 pounds) (Reporting by William Schomberg; editing by David Milliken)
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