This graph shows the number of first time buyer mortgages as a percentage of the whole mortgage market. It clearly demonstrates a downward trend from 1994 to the present which means that first time buyers are becoming more and more priced out of the market.

If you look at the buy to let graph page then you will see that the buyer increasingly investing in the housing market is the buy to let purchaser. This has had a huge detrimental affect on the life blood of the market which is the first time buyer by chasing supply and pushing of prices way out of reach of the majority of first time buyers.

Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders (ML2)
Update Frequency: Quarterly
Last updated: 02/07/2008