Mortgage Activity – Simply Legal Solicitors https://www.simplicitylegal.co.uk Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:49:22 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.simplicitylegal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/favicon.png Mortgage Activity – Simply Legal Solicitors https://www.simplicitylegal.co.uk 32 32 Mortgage Lending Rises in June https://www.simplicitylegal.co.uk/mortgage-lending-rises-june/ Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:15:50 +0000 https://growth-labs.dev/sl/2017/08/17/mortgage-lending-rises-june/ Newly released data from trade body UK Finance has revealed a rise in mortgage lending during the month of June. The figures show that in June, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis: First-time buyers borrowed £5.9bn, up 26% on the previous month and 9% on June 2016. This equated to 36,000 loans, up 22% month-on-month and...

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]]> Newly released data from trade body UK Finance has revealed a rise in mortgage lending during the month of June.

The figures show that in June, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis:
  • First-time buyers borrowed £5.9bn, up 26% on the previous month and 9% on June 2016. This equated to 36,000 loans, up 22% month-on-month and 6% year-on-year.
  • Home movers borrowed £7.8bn, up 26% on May and 15% year-on-year. This equated to 36,500 loans, up 24% month-on-month and 9% compared to a year ago.
  • Home-owner remortgage activity totalled £6bn, up 5% by value on May and 7% on a year ago. The number of remortgage loans totalled 34,300, up 5% month-on-month and 6% on a year ago.
  • Gross buy-to-let totalled £3.0bn, up 3% on May and up 3% compared to June 2016. These equated to 19,700 loans, up 3% month-on-month and 6% year-on-year.
“June’s figures show a busy month in the mortgage market, with home movers having their highest monthly activity levels for over a year and an especially high number of loans for first-time buyers,” commented Paul Smee, Head of Mortgages at UK Finance. “Buy-to-let activity remains subdued compared to its 2015 peak but consistent month-to-month since stamp duty changes in April 2016.”
“But there are also signs of a softening market and we are not anticipating that this performance will be sustained in the second half of 2017,” he added. “A slightly lop-sided market could well show some growth in house purchase lending but alongside reduced remortgage and buy-to-let activity.”

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