United Kingdom UK Finance Mortgage Approvals

British banks approved 38,505 mortgages for new house purchase in September of 2018, fewer than a downwardly revised 39,241 in August and below market expectations of 39,000. It is the lowest reading in six months and down by 6.7 percent from a year earlier, data from trade association UK Finance showed. Approvals of loans secured on dwellings for remortgaging fell to 27,874 from 30,838 in August, and the number of approvals for other purposes declined to 8,613 from 8,938. Net mortgage lending decreased by GBP 1.550 billion in September, compared with GBP 1.671 billion in August. Mortgage Applications in the United Kingdom averaged 51167.66 Units from 1997 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 92480 Units in March of 2002 and a record low of 17241 Units in November of 2008.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-08-24	08:30 AM	UK Finance Mortgage Approvals	39.584K	40.33K	40.6K	42.5K
2018-09-26	08:30 AM	UK Finance Mortgage Approvals	39.402K	39.619K	39.7K	41.9K
2018-10-24	08:30 AM	UK Finance Mortgage Approvals	38.505K	39.241K	39K	42.8K
2018-11-26	09:30 AM	UK Finance Mortgage Approvals		38.505K		45.5K
2018-12-28	09:30 AM	UK Finance Mortgage Approvals				47.8K

United Kingdom Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Housing Starts	41190.00	39890.00	69520.00	16420.00	units	[+]
Construction Output	3.00	0.50	24.00	-19.20	percent	[+]
Housing Index	737.50	732.20	743.70	96.10	Index Points	[+]
Mortgage Approvals	65.27	66.10	151.80	26.27	Thousand	[+]
Mortgage Applications	38505.00	39241.00	92480.00	17241.00	Units	[+]
Construction Pmi	53.20	52.10	64.60	27.80		[+]
Construction Orders	-7.40	-6.90	37.40	-43.90	percent	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	63.40	63.50	73.30	63.40	percent	[+]

UK Finance Mortagge Approvals for the United Kingdom show the number of approvals given for house purchase, excluding remortgaging and those for other purposes. Data include customers' activity of Barclays, HSBC Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander UK, TSB and Virgin Money, which collectively account for around two-thirds of domestic retail banking assets. This page provides - United Kingdom Mortgage Applications- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United Kingdom UK Finance Mortgage Approvals - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on November of 2018.