Mortgage approvals have increased marginally in recent months, helped by Government interventions. But that increase has been achieved with virtually no rise in net mortgage lending. Thus in aggregate lenders are limiting new mortgage lending to what can be funded by recycling repayments from existing loans. As long as this continues, a sustained rise in house prices is unlikely.
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