House Purchases Down, No Signs of Recovery

According to EstateAgentToday, April of the current year showed 40,900 loans for house purchase, this means a two percent decrease from last year's reported loans. Nonetheless, compared to March 2011 report, it went up to eight percent. Even though the numbers showed improvement, the Bank of England, according to Council of Mortgage Lenders, is a bit slow in approving the loan applications. This may not be a good sign since many prospective homeowners are disheartened to wait much longer. This assumption can be seen in first-time buyers. Before, they are applying for loan up to 90 percent of the house price but it eventually declined to 80 percent.

Nevertheless, CML's director general, Michael Coogan, is a bit positive on the market's improved house purchase loans. According to him, this is a good sign since there is a bigger probability to have stability for the current year. However, he noted that the economic outlook, coupled with Bank of England subdued approvals data for April might not cause further increase for the next months. David Newnes, LSL Property Services' director, stated a similar opinion. He said that the current growth is far from out of the woods and to be able to sustain recovery the mortgage must improve drastically, also first-time buyers' deposits must jump to over 50 percent compared to the rate of year 2008. Nevertheless, he admitted that current improvement may light some hope to first-time buyers. Another director, David Whittaker of Mortgages For Business, issued a similar statement stating that mortgage market's dramatic recovery is unlikely to happen for a longer period of time; unless, the government as well as lenders can provide a sensible balance of capital requirements and lending targets. The statements of different experts show that the housing crisis is definitely not yet over.

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