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Under-the-radar figures mean good news for housing market

3 April 2024 Featured, Latest News

One less well known measure of housing market health is mortgage approvals. An approval comes at the start of a buyer’s journey, so give advance warning of whether the market is moving up or down. New figures show:

 

  • mortgage approvals jumped 7.7% in February to 60,383;

 

  • this is a huge 40% higher than a year ago; and

 

  • mortgage approvals have now increased for five months in a row.

 

The figures come from the Bank of England and suggest that despite high interest rates (scheduled to fall in late spring and across the summer) buyers are now ‘getting on with life’ and keen to move house in 2024.

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