Record high €8.8bn first time buyer mortgages approved in November First-time buyers represented more than 61 per cent of the total volume of mortgages during November. The number of first-time buyers being approved for mortgages hit historic levels at the end of last year, new data from the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) has shown. The trend has come amid an overall slowdown in mortgage activity. In November 2023, a total of 4,202 mortgages […]