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Consumer expectations about house prices have bounced back to pre-EU Referendum levels, making affordability a key concern for buyers, BSA Property Tracker results reveal.
New data shows that building societies give the UK’s hard pressed savers a better deal than other deposit takers do.
Independent research from Savingschampion.co.uk issued today shows that building societies continue to demonstrate that they offer greater value to long-suffering savers than banks.
Building societies provided almost one in three mortgages approved in the final quarter of 2016. Collectively they approved 109,543 new mortgage loans, up 7% on the same period in 2015. Consumers saved less in Q4 than they did the previous year but balances still rose by £2.9 billion.
There is no one silver bullet to solve the UK’s ‘broken housing market’. Today the BSA welcomes the Housing White Paper as a positive first step towards a more joined up approach to housing and, we hope, the beginning of a coordinated government strategy.
Consumers are unsurprisingly concerned that stability in the housing market could be affected next year by increased living costs and rising interest rates, the latest Property Tracker survey results reveal. The Post-Referendum bounce-back in confidence has been short-lived, with fewer consumers viewing now as a good time to buy property than three months ago.
The BSA welcomes the FCA’s open and collaborative approach in the run up to the Mortgages Market Study published today. The regulator has clearly listened to the feedback provided by the mortgage industry in its call for inputs earlier this year, particularly in relation to the increase in the number of borrowers who approach intermediaries for their mortgage borrowing needs.
Commenting on today’s Autumn Statement, Robin Fieth, BSA Chief Executive said: “We welcome the recognition given to the importance of infrastructure in housebuilding with the announcement of a £2.3 billion housing infrastructure fund in today’s Autumn Statement.....
Today the Building Societies Association (BSA) releases mortgage lending and savings figures for all 44 building societies for the third quarter of 2016.
BSA Members elect Jonathan Westhoff, Chief Executive of the West Brom as BSA Deputy Chairman
A copy of the BSA Chairman's speech at the BSA Annual Lunch 2016 in which he outlined his views on Brexit and launched a new BSA housing report aimed at bringing new housebuilding technologies into the mainstream to help address housing supply.
At its Annual Lunch on 17 November, at which Housing and Planning Minister Gavin Barwell MP gave the keynote speech, the BSA launched a progressive housing report; ‘Laying the foundations for Modern Methods of Construction’ (MMC). Links to the report and the speeches made by Gavin Barwell MP, Housing and Planning Minister and Dick Jenkins, BSA Chairman can be found in Notes to Editors.