Highest Mortgage Lenders

9 per cent more than in the preceding three months of this year.

Demographically, with new pledges - credits on which lenders reached agreement in the next few weeks - at £73.2bn, the first-time purchaser recorded an rise in credit to 21.4% of GDP, its highest since 2008. In the meantime, the buy-to-least- and re-mortgage sector recorded their shares of the downturn in the markets in the second quarters - lessors now account for 13.1 percent of new credits and lenders want 30.8 percent.

Intrinsic mortgage manager Gemma Harle said the stats paint an inspiring view of mortgage markets healthcare and show that current borrower had better dealings. "Even though we see a small decline of two percent in the remorse business volume for this quarter, if you look at the longer-term view, the sector is seeing more and more resellers refinancing their houses.

"Neither do these numbers refer to those who do better dealings with their present lenders, which accounts for an increasingly large portion of the brokerage business." Mrs Harle said another good indication was the rising initial buyer's equity, which in her opinion had been supported by the government's Help to Buy programme.

During the second three months of the year, the proportion of new business in the highest loan-to-income thresholds - for credit exceeding four-fold the value of individual buyer's yearly revenue or three-fold the value of shared buyer's yearly revenue - rose overall to 45.1 per cent compared with 43.9 per cent in the prior year.