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Mortgage Lenders and Administrators Statistics - 2019 Q2
The Mortgage Lenders and Administrators Return (MLAR) is a quarterly statistical release aggregated from data on mortgage lending activities provided by around 340 regulated mortgage lenders and administrators.
Published on
10 September 2019
Key findings
The outstanding value of all residential mortgage loans was £1,461 billion in 2019 Q2, 3.1% higher than a year earlier (Table A).
The value of gross mortgage advances was £66.1 billion in 2019 Q2, 1.0% lower than a year ago (Table A and Chart 1).
The value of new mortgage commitments (lending agreed to be advanced in the coming months) was broadly unchanged compared to a year earlier, at £73.4 billion (Table A and Chart 1).
The share of mortgages advanced in Q2 with loan to value (LTV) ratios exceeding 90% was 5.5%, the highest since 2008 Q4 (Chart 3).
The proportion of lending at high loan to income (LTI) ratios (loans greater than four times the value of annual income for a single borrower or greater than three times annual income for joint borrowers) was 46.1% in 2019 Q2, 0.7 percentage points (pp) higher than a year earlier (Chart 4).
The share of gross mortgage lending for buy-to-let purposes (covering house purchase, remortgage and further advance) was 13.1%, in line with a year earlier (Chart 5).
Lending to owner-occupiers for house purchase accounted for 50.5% of total gross mortgage advances in Q2. Of this, 21.3% was to first-time buyers, which is consistent with a year earlier. The share of lending to home movers increased marginally in the year to 29.2% (Chart 5).