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Repossession Orders

Volume 492: debated on Thursday 14 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of properties being purchased with a buy-to-let mortgage that have been repossessed in each of the last 10 quarters. (274711)

The number of buy-to-let mortgage repossessions in the UK are published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The following table shows the number of buy-to-let mortgage repossessions in each of the last 10 quarters as published by the CML.

Number of buy-to-let mortgage repossessions, UK

Number

2006

Q3

200

Q4

400

2007

Q1

400

Q2

500

Q3

500

Q4

600

2008

Q1

900

Q2

900

Q3

1,000

Q4

1,300

Source:

Council of Mortgage Lenders.