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Looking at mortgage lending activity over the last 15 years shows the dramatic reduction in mortgage lending across the market in 2008/9, but also that over the last few years building societies have been much quicker than other lenders to increase their net mortgage lending.
Since 2012 building societies have averaged almost 60% of all net lending in the UK.
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Andrew Gall
Chief Economist