Mutuals increase their share of the mortgage market

June 8, 2015 by Brendan O'Neill

Lenders

New data has revealed that the UK’s building societies lent almost £13 billion in the form of new mortgages (gross lending) during the first quarter of 2015.

The figure, highlighted by the Building Societies Association (BSA), was almost 30% of all lending and thus represented a market share increase.

BSA’s head of mortgage policy, Paul Broadhead, said that mutuals had a strong start to the year, and that without their contribution to lending, the market may actually have shrunk.

He also commented:

“Societies hold a 20% share of mortgage balances, but have had a much greater share of the flow of new lending for some time. In the first quarter they delivered 29% of all new mortgages.”

He concluded that it was a combination of the competitiveness of their product ranges, and importantly, the individual and personal way they approach the underwriting of each case.

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