Trigold, the UK’s leading Mortgage Sourcing system has revealed that the gap in product availability is far wider than previously reported with 23,000 mortgage products wiped from the intermediary market in the last six months.

In August 2007 there were 45,590 products on the Trigold sourcing system and in February 2008 this had fallen to 21,988 equating to a drop of 52% in just 6 months.

7 out of 10 mortgage brokers subscribe to the Trigold sourcing system which offers the definitive guide to Mortgage Product Data in the UK intermediary mortgage market with more products from more providers than any other system.

However, Trigold’s marketing and business development director David Aylmer stresses that although the drop in product numbers was significant it was just a part of the story saying; “These figures demonstrate the extent of the credit crunch on mortgage availability although it’s important to put this into context. Restricted access to wholesale funding together with tightened underwriting criteria from those lenders who still have lending capacity, has had and will continue to have for some time, a significant impact on the extent of product choice available in the market and through intermediaries.

“However, over recent years we have witnessed a considerable increase in both the number of mortgage product providers and the products they made available. Live mortgage products in the UK intermediary market are still in excess of 2004 figures in the run up to mortgage regulation of 16,000. There is no doubt that mortgage intermediaries are finding products choices limited in some sectors such as subprime, but our evidence shows that intermediary activity remains strong with a mortgage being sourced on Trigold by a UK mortgage broker every second of the day*.

*based on total number of sources performed by Trigold users divided by number of seconds in the working day.


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