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

The number of mortgages approved for house purchase in the United Kingdom fell to 63,910 in February of 2018 from a downwardly revised 67,110 in the previous month and below market consensus of 66,000. Additionally, approvals of loans secured on dwellings for remortgaging dropped to 46,622 from 48,690 in January. Meanwhile, the number of approvals for other purposes went up to 13,613 from 13,601. Mortgage lending rose by GBP 3.72 billion in February, following a GBP 3.43 billion increase in January and above market expectations of GBP 3.5 billion. Mortgage Approvals in the United Kingdom averaged 85.11 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.

1Y 5Y 10Y MAX

Export Data API Access

width

height

Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices.

Learn More Register Login

The Trading Economics Application Programming Interface (API) provides direct access to our data. It allows API clients to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar, subscribe to updates and receive quotes for currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds.

Learn More Interested? Click here to contact us

Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-01-30	09:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals	61.04K	64.71K	66K	62.5K
2018-03-01	09:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals	67.48K	61.69K	62K	60.5K
2018-03-29	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals	63.91K	67.11K	66K	65K
2018-05-01	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals		63.91K		68.5K
2018-05-31	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals				70.6K
2018-06-29	08:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals				70.9K

United Kingdom Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Housing Starts	35590.00	41820.00	69520.00	16420.00		[+]
Construction Output	-3.00	-2.10	24.00	-19.20	percent	[+]
Housing Index	737.50	726.80	737.50	96.10	Index Points	[+]
Mortgage Approvals	63.91	67.11	151.80	26.27	Thousand	[+]
Mortgage Applications	38120.00	40031.00	93512.00	17126.00	Units	[+]
Construction Orders	-1.30	26.60	37.40	-43.90	percent	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	63.40	63.50	73.30	63.40	percent	[+]
Construction Pmi	47.00	51.40	64.60	27.80		[+]

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 April of 2018.