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12/10/2009
Remortgaging Continues To Decline
The mortgage market is on two speed settings, as house purchase lending continues to recover but remortgaging continues to decline, according to the latest data released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
The number of house purchase loans in August (53,000) is down 5% from July but 29% higher than August a year ago. And whilst this is still significantly lower than the August average in the seven years before the credit crisis of 100,000 loans, it is more than twice the level of activity at the start of the year.
There were 19,200 loans to first-time buyers and 33,400 loans to home movers.
House purchase activity, worth £7.2 billion in August, accounted for its largest share of total mortgage activity since 2002.
At £12.3 billion, gross mortgage lending declined 36% from August 2008.
Remortgaging activity continued to fall away due to the extremely low interest rate environment and restrictive lending criteria for the most attractive deals. There were 32,000 remortgage loans advanced in August, a 22% decrease on July, and a 57% decrease on August last year.
First time buyers typically had a 25% deposit and borrowed 3.03 times their income. Home movers typically borrowed 66% of the property’s value and 2.74 times their income.
CML Economist Paul Samter said: "House purchase activity has revived from its moribund state at the beginning of the year. It will be a drawn out recovery process with seasonal ups and downs, but house purchase activity is now on a firmer footing.
"But remortgaging demand has fallen away in the low interest rate environment and this is dragging down gross lending levels overall."
(CD/GK)
The number of house purchase loans in August (53,000) is down 5% from July but 29% higher than August a year ago. And whilst this is still significantly lower than the August average in the seven years before the credit crisis of 100,000 loans, it is more than twice the level of activity at the start of the year.
There were 19,200 loans to first-time buyers and 33,400 loans to home movers.
House purchase activity, worth £7.2 billion in August, accounted for its largest share of total mortgage activity since 2002.
At £12.3 billion, gross mortgage lending declined 36% from August 2008.
Remortgaging activity continued to fall away due to the extremely low interest rate environment and restrictive lending criteria for the most attractive deals. There were 32,000 remortgage loans advanced in August, a 22% decrease on July, and a 57% decrease on August last year.
First time buyers typically had a 25% deposit and borrowed 3.03 times their income. Home movers typically borrowed 66% of the property’s value and 2.74 times their income.
CML Economist Paul Samter said: "House purchase activity has revived from its moribund state at the beginning of the year. It will be a drawn out recovery process with seasonal ups and downs, but house purchase activity is now on a firmer footing.
"But remortgaging demand has fallen away in the low interest rate environment and this is dragging down gross lending levels overall."
(CD/GK)
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