- The overall value of the residential loan amounts outstanding was £1,228 billion in Q1 2013, a decrease of 0.1% compared with Q4. This was the first decrease in the amounts outstanding since Q1 2011 and over the past four quarters there was an increase of 0.5% in the total amounts outstanding.
- Within the Q1 2013 total, amounts outstanding on regulated loans increased slightly to £957 billion, accounting for 78% of the total. Non-regulated loans, predominantly buy-to let lending, continued to decrease, reducing by a further 0.5% in the quarter to £271 billion.
- The value of securitised amounts outstanding continued a declining trend which started in 2009, reducing by a further 3.4% in Q1 2013 to £118 billion. Un-securitised amounts outstanding, however, continued to increase to £1,110 billion in Q1 2013. Consequently, the proportion of overall amounts outstanding that securitised balances account decreased for the second quarter in succession, recording a historical low of 9.6%.
Mortgage lenders and administrators statistical release - 2013 Q1