Second Mortgage Approval

Creditors are currently in a pricing battle, especially in recent waves of new low-interest agreements. Mr Mark Harris, CEO of mortgage brokers SPF Retail Client, said: "As HSBC introduces the lowest five-year fix on the table at 1.69% and the Yorkshire Building Society introduces a all-time low two-year discount of 0.89%, the Yorkshire Building Society is more likely to be able to compete than ever.

"It' s a good season for borrower, with creditors who are intent on doing deals from first shoppers, do-it-yourselfers and those who remute. Early this week, reports indicated that the Bank of Mum and Dad is Britain's tenth largest mortgage provider as purchasers become more dependent on parental funding.

As the Bank of England's numbers show, the pace of expansion of consumer lending - such as retail lending, taking out credits and current account credits - has accelerated in recent years. Liabilities to banks increased by 11% in the 12-month period to the end of March. As a result of this increase, the Bank of England and supervisory authorities have issued "declarations of vigilance".

"Whilst most individuals are coping with this credit at the present time, if the economic situation deteriorates in the next few month, there is a significant downside that many who have taken this additional obligation will begin to struggle."

British mortgage permits drop to their second low since 2015.

Lawmakers gave the go-ahead for 37,567 mortgage loans to buy houses last week, said the UK Finance industry federation, the country's first since December and second bottom since January 2015. "It is possible that the mortgage permits...were affected by the storm (but) even taking this into account, the underlying performances suggest that the residential property markets will remain subdued," said Howard Archer, senior economist at EY ITEM Club.

Net seasonally-adjusted loans by credential rose only 10 million over the course of the month to $13.9 million, the smallest increase since April 2016, although the 5.8 per cent increase in the net monthly loan volume has been virtually unchanged. The net loan amount to companies was £3.241 billion, the highest in a year.

Mr Archer said that the prospects of higher interest levels could also weigh on homeowners. After Governor Mark Carney emphasized the recent "mixed" news, financiers are not sure whether the Bank of England will increase interest next week - which they previously thought would be very likely. Thursday's UK financials are covering the big UK banking groups, but do not contain home loan and savings associations, which make up a large portion of mortgage loans.

Bank of England publishes industry-wide figures on 1 May.