Posts Tagged ‘volume’

House purchase lending up 45%

House purchase lending increased by 45% in March, marking the ninth consecutive month of year-on-year growth, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
Loans for house purchase were up 25% in volume (45,000) and 24% in value from February but for the first quarter of the year as a whole, there were 112,000 loans [...]

New mortgage lending up 16%

New figures from the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) show February’s gross mortgage lending at £8.6 billion, having staged a recovery from January’s low of £8 billion.
The number of house purchase loans approved by the UK’s banks leapt 16% year-on-year, to 35,276, having managed a slight increase on January’s figure of 35,154.
Furthermore, the value of [...]

New mortgage lending plummets

There were 49% fewer house purchase loans approved in January than in December, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported.
According to the body, the steep decline “emphatically demonstrates” the impact of the end of the stamp duty holiday, in December.
First-time buyers recorded the largest drop among house purchasers: in January, approvals were down to [...]