Total mortgage lending, for both home buyers and people moving lenders, fell back in June. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said £11.9bn was lent by its members last month. After a sharp rise the previous month, June’s figure was down by 5%, both from May’s lending figure and also from June last year. But the CML said lending for the first half of the year was now 7% higher than in the first half of 2011. “Mortgage lending has experienced something of a see-saw pattern over recent months, largely reflecting the short-term spike and subsequent trough in house purchase activity associated with the ending of the stamp duty concession for first-time buyers in late March,” said the CML’s chief economist Bob Pannell. “Weaker mortgage lending in June points to a more subdued tone for the housing market in line with that for the wider economy,” he added. Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, predicted that lending in the second half of the year would fall. “The stamp duty concession has had a significant impact on borrowing in the first half of the year, increasing the volume of lending compared with the first six months of 2011,” he said. Bradley Associates said on a release that a drop off in the second half of the year now that this motivation has been removed, combined with the slowdown forecasted during the Olympics, the continuing eurozone crisis weak consumer confidence. In addition, any recovery in the housing market remains a long way off. While it may eventually be lifted by more mortgages being granted at decent interest rates under the funding for lending scheme to be launched in August by the Bank of England and the treasury, this is unlikely to be a major factor in the near term at least.

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2. UK mortgage lending fell back in
June, Bradley Associates say
Total mortgage lending, for both home buyers
and people moving lenders, fell back in June.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)
said £11.9bn was lent by its members last
month. After a sharp rise the previous
month, June’s figure was down by 5%, both
from May’s lending figure and also from June
last year. But the CML said lending for the
first half of the year was now 7% higher than
in the first half of 2011.

3. “Mortgage lending has experienced
something of a see-saw pattern over recent
months, largely reflecting the short-term
spike and subsequent trough in house
purchase activity associated with the ending
of the stamp duty concession for first-time
buyers in late March,” said the CML’s chief
economist Bob Pannell.

4. “Weaker mortgage lending in June points to a
more subdued tone for the housing market in
line with that for the wider economy,” he
added. Mark Harris, chief executive of
mortgage broker SPF Private
Clients, predicted that lending in the second
half of the year would fall. “The stamp duty
concession has had a significant impact on
borrowing in the first half of the
year, increasing the volume of lending
compared with the first six months of 2011,”
he said.

5. Bradley Associates said on a release that a
drop off in the second half of the year now
that this motivation has been
removed, combined with the slowdown
forecasted during the Olympics, the
continuing eurozone crisis weak consumer
confidence. In addition, any recovery in the
housing market remains a long way off. While
it may eventually be lifted by more mortgages
being granted at decent interest rates under
the funding for lending scheme to be launched
in August by the Bank of England and the
treasury, this is unlikely to be a major factor
in the near term at least.