Figure from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) showed 4,200 buy-to-let loans were taken out for purchases during the month, worth £600m.
You can feel him stretching out, feeling for purchase on the tiny patch of middle ground between Brick's Brendan and Hell Boy.
Meanwhile, the value of mortgages taken out for home purchase reached a total of £5.2bn in July, an increase of 79.1% compared with the same month last year.
Dealers also complain that business is slow, showing the official booklets they are now required to fill out for a purchase.
It starts with a commitment to try to use cash for your everyday, casual spending--you know, all the times you just shell out for impulse purchases on things like lunches, hair appointments, morning coffee, outings with your kids, date nights, you name it.
These were designed to encourage the French to work more (overtime pay, for example, was exempted from tax and social charges) and spend more (tax breaks were handed out for property purchases).
The number of mortgages taken out for house purchases fell to its lowest level for nine years in January, figures showed today, offering further evidence that the credit crunch is continuing to affect the UK property market.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said the number of loans paid out for house purchases increased in April to 40,900 with a value of £5.9bn, up from 37,900 loans worth £5.5bn in March.
The number of mortgages taken out for house purchases dropped by 14% in July, the latest figures from mortgage lenders show, as the housing market slowed down around the time of the EU referendum vote.
