Mortgage Market Update – August ’16

New Mortgages granted – June Estimates
The Council of Mortgage Lenders reported on 21st July that June’s estimated figure for gross mortgage lending in the UK would reach £20.7 billion. This is 16% higher than last month’s figure, and 3% higher than last June’s figure. The report said that this is “the highest June figure in eight years”.
Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders

New Mortgages granted – May Actual Figures
On 13th July, the Council of Mortgage Lenders reported on May’s gross mortgage lending for house purchase.
Loans to home-owners in May totalled 53,800, worth £9.4 billion. This is up 13% on April’s in number and 15% in value. Compared to last May, it is up 5% in number and 8% in value.
First-time buyer loans totalled 27,500, valued at £4.3 billion, which is up 9% in number and 10% in value on last month. This is 16% higher in number and 23% higher in value, compared to last year.
Home movers’ loans totalled £5.1 billion, and numbered 26,300. These figures are up 19% in terms of value and 18% of number on last month.  The figures are down 2% in value and 5% in number on last year.
The number and value of remortgage loans increased – 30,900 loans worth £5.2 billion were made in May. These figures are 12% lower than last month’s in terms of volume and 15% lower in value. Over the year,  the figures are up by 25% in number and up 30% in value.
Director General of the CML, Paul Smee, stated that “For the second month running, first-time buyers borrowed more than home movers, the first time in 20 years that this has been the case”.
Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders

Mortgages – First-time buyers and home-movers – May 2016.
The latest figures from CML (published 13th July 2016) show that first-time buyers’ mortgages average £131,000, which is 84.6% loan-to-value, and 3.51 times income. The proportion of their gross income that buyers are paying to service their mortgages is 18.0% (when including capital repayments). The average age of a first-time buyer is 30 years.
For home-movers, the average loan is £166,000, with a loan-to-value ratio of 72.2%, and 3.25 times income. Income proportion spent on mortgage repayments is 18.0% when including capital repayments, and the average age is 39 years.
Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders

Buy-to-Let Mortgages – May 2016
The Council of Mortgage Lenders reports that during May, the total advanced to landlords on buy-to-let mortgages was £2.6 billion (16,600 loans). This is up 4% in value and up 3% in number than in April. Compared with last May, the number has fallen by 8% and the value by 4%.
Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders

Outstanding Mortgages – May 2016
By the end of May, the total outstanding mortgage lending in the UK amounted to £1.294 trillion. Last May it was £1,265 trillion. This averages to £116,804 for each of the 11.1 million households with mortgage debt.
Source: The Money Charity

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