{"id":451,"date":"2025-10-27T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/?p=451"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:16:13","slug":"mortgage-market-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Market Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The BPFI have published data on mortgage drawdowns for the third quarter, showing the number of loans for house purchase  is still running modestly above last year&#8217;s total and we expect a full year figure of  37,400 against 36,000 for 2024. FTB loans still dominate, accounting for around three- in- four house purchase loans .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average new mortgage is rising strongly, by over 8% in the the third quarter, and we expect the average for the year at \u20ac336,000, so giving a total of \u20ac12.6bn for the value of house purchase loans, the highest since 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top up loans are picking up but still relatively small at a forecast \u20ac450m, while re-mortgaging may reach \u20ac1.6bn, which would represent a 50% increase on the year. This brings the total value of new mortgage lending to \u20ac14.6bn, some \u20ac2bn above the 2024 total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House completions are running at an annual 33,000 based on the latest figures covering the third quarter and we expect a 34,000 total for 2025 as a whole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BPFI have published data on mortgage drawdowns for the third quarter, showing the number of loans for house purchase is still running modestly above last year&#8217;s total and we expect a full year figure of 37,400 against 36,000 for 2024. FTB loans still dominate, accounting for around three- in- four house purchase loans . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/?p=451\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mortgage Market Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmclaughlin.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}