The spike in mortgage rates in October and November last year ensured that mortgage approvals remained at a similar level to the depths of the 2007-09 financial crisis in January. That could mark the trough, but the big picture remains that in the current higher mortgage rate environment, house prices are still too high for mortgage lending to recover.
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