The rush to beat the original stamp duty holiday deadline in March pushed mortgage advances up to their highest level since 2016 in February. And while approvals for house purchase did start to cool, the extension of the stamp duty holiday and the renewed strength of the survey data suggest that lending will remain high for most of this year.
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