United Kingdom Mortgage Approvals 1986-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar

The number of mortgages approved for house purchase in the United Kingdom fell for the third month to 62,455 in April of 2018 from a downwardly revised 62,802 in the previous month and below market expectations of 63,000. Meanwhile, approvals of loans secured on dwellings for remortgaging declined to 46,189 from 46,917 in March and those for other purposes went down to 12,956 from 13,944. Mortgage lending increased by GBP 3.894 billion in April, following a downwardly revised GBP 3.959 billion gain in March and above market expectations of GBP 3.8 billion. Mortgage Approvals in the United Kingdom averaged 84.99 Thousand from 1986 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 151.80 Thousand in May of 1988 and a record low of 26.27 Thousand in November of 2008.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-03-29	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals	63.91K	67.11K	66K	65K
2018-05-01	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals	62.91K	63.78K	63K	61.5K
2018-05-31	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals	62.455K	62.802K	63K	64.6K
2018-06-29	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals		62.455K	62.15T	65.9K
2018-07-30	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals				71.4K
2018-08-30	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals				71.7K

United Kingdom Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Housing Starts	35590.00	41820.00	69520.00	16420.00		[+]
Construction Output	-3.30	-4.90	24.00	-19.20	percent	[+]
Housing Index	726.40	715.60	738.30	96.10	Index Points	[+]
Mortgage Approvals	62.46	62.80	151.80	26.27	Thousand	[+]
Mortgage Applications	38049.00	37606.00	93649.00	17121.00	Units	[+]
Construction Pmi	52.50	52.50	64.60	27.80		[+]
Construction Orders	-6.60	-1.10	37.40	-43.90	percent	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	63.40	63.50	73.30	63.40	percent	[+]

United Kingdom Mortgage Approvals

Mortgage approvals for house purchase refers to the firm offers of lenders to advance credit secured on specific dwellings to their customers. It covers approvals that are fully secured on residential property by a first mortgage. It includes existing borrowers transferring their existing mortgage to another property, lending to first-time purchasers and lending for buy-to-let purposes. This page provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Mortgage Approvals - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United Kingdom Mortgage Approvals - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on June of 2018.