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U.K. Mortgage Approvals Rose to Three-Month High in September

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By Fergal O’Brien and John Ainger

October 31, 2016 at 9:30 AM UTC

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U.K. mortgage approvals rose in September to a three-month high, the Bank of England said.

Almost 63,000 loans for house purchase were granted, up from a revised 60,984 in August, it said in a report in London on Monday. Economists in a Bloomberg survey had forecast a figure of 61,500.