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First-time buyers `find market tough`

12/09/2007

The number of home loans lent to first-time buyers dropped in July as unstable financial markets and rising house prices affected consumer confidence, according to new statistics.

Loans to first-time buyers decreased by seven per cent from June`s figures while the value of loans lent fell four per cent, to £4.4 billion. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) found that first-time buyers were committing 19.7 per cent of their income to mortgage interest repayments.

However, general lending not accounted for by house purchase or remortgaging rose to its highest-ever level, £7.8 billion during the month. Loans for house purchases totalled £14.8 billion in July.

Michael Coogan, CML director general, said: "A slight fall in lending between June and July has emerged for the third year in a row, so of course we cannot read too much into a single month`s figures. But the long-anticipated slowdown in the housing and mortgage markets may now be beginning to materialise."

The CML currently has 163 members, covering 98 per cent of the mortgage industry.

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