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Mortgage Lending (May)

The tick up in mortgage approvals for house purchase in May left them 33% above pre-virus norms, and timely indicators suggest that mortgage lending will remain robust despite the looming end of the stamp duty holiday.
Does the end of the holiday mean end of the boom? (1200 BST today, Tuesday 29th June): Join Chief Property Economist Andrew Burrell and Andrew Wishart, the head of our UK Housing Service, for this 20 minute Drop-In session. Register here.

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