The UK Finance mortgage approvals data provides further tentative evidence that demand picked up at the end of 2019. But with Brexit-related uncertainty set to intensify later this year and with the housing fundamentals unsupportive, we don’t expect any meaningful rise in mortgage lending anytime soon.
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