Increased housing transactions and a decline in the stock of interest-only mortgages have boosted mortgage principal repayments, and allowed lenders to advance more mortgages without having to increase net lending. Those factors are likely to continue, allowing lenders to advance more mortgages for new buyers. But a return to the very strong rates of lending growth seen prior to the financial crisis will require a large increase in net lending, and that is unlikely.
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