boe_mortgage_approvals: Download mortgage approvals for house purchase

In boe: Download Data from the 'Bank of England' Statistical Database

Download mortgage approvals for house purchase

Description

Downloads the monthly count of mortgage approvals for house purchase, a widely watched leading indicator of housing market activity. Available from April 1993.

Usage

boe_mortgage_approvals(
  from = "1993-04-01",
  to = Sys.Date(),
  seasonally_adjusted = TRUE,
  cache = TRUE
)

Arguments

from	Date or character (YYYY-MM-DD). Start date. Defaults to "1993-04-01".
to	Date or character (YYYY-MM-DD). End date. Defaults to today.
seasonally_adjusted	Logical. Return seasonally adjusted series (default TRUE) or non-seasonally adjusted (FALSE).
cache	Logical. Use cached data if available (default TRUE).

Value

A data frame with columns:

date

Date. End of month.

approvals

Numeric. Number of mortgage approvals.

Source

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/

See Also

Other credit and housing: boe_consumer_credit(), boe_mortgage_rates()

Examples

op <- options(boe.cache_dir = tempdir())
boe_mortgage_approvals(from = "2015-01-01")
options(op)

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