Mortgage Market Report – October
October 2024
Mortgage Market Activity
05.11.24
Twenty7tec, the leading adviser tech provider, has announced mortgage market statistics for October 2024 as follows:
The data:
In October 2024, compared to September 2024:
- Purchase mortgage searches were up 2.9%
- Remortgage searches were up 1.4%
- Buy To Let purchase mortgage searches were up 3.0%
- Buy To Let remortgage searches remained static
- Residential purchase mortgage searches were up 2.5%
- Residential remortgage searches were up 2.2%
- Searches by First Time Buyers were up 5.38%
In October 2024, compared to October 2023:
- Purchase mortgage searches were up 23.69%
- Remortgage searches were up 3.16%
- Buy To Let purchase mortgage searches were up 18.37%
- Buy To Let remortgage searches were up 9.52%
- Residential purchase mortgage searches were up 26.01%
- Residential remortgage searches were up 1.33%
- Searches by First Time Buyers were up 9.99%
Searches for fixed mortgage products in October 2024:
- Two-year fixed mortgages accounted for 40.51% of all fixed product searches compared to 46.22% in October 2023
- Three- to five-year fixed mortgages accounted for 35.18% of all fixed product searches compared to 33.62% in October 2023
- Five- to ten-year fixed mortgages now account for 24.31% of all fixed product searches compared to 20.16% in October 2023
Nathan Reilly, Director at Twenty7tec, says:
“We saw month-on-month gains across the board last month, with purchase and remortgage searches both up and Buy To Let and First Time Buyer searches also up.
“But the month had two definite parts: the first half characterised by record-setting for product availability, and the second for fewer ESIS documents being prepared as the market held its breath for the Budget and the subsequent Bank of England rate decision on November 7th. None of the days in the second half of October ranked in the top 130 busiest days this year. Equally, by month end, the total number of products available had fallen away by 1.93% to leave it 462 products down on the prior month end. This was the first month-on-month fall in total products since June 2023.
“For advisers, it has been a purchase market since March this year, in other words, the volumes of purchase ESIS documents prepared outstrip the volume of remortgage ESIS documents. But it is narrowing again a little now at 55:45, having previously peaked at 57.5:52.5 in July 2024.
“By the end of November, we predict that 2024 will surpass the annual total number of mortgage searches for 2023 with a month to spare. It’s been a busy year for advisers, and we’re highly likely to see new records set when we do the year in review.”
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