The total number of mortgage products available has reached the 2,500 mark for the first time since
11 May 2009, according to moneysupermarket.com.

Despite the third consecutive month of increases in product numbers however, there is nothing like the amount about before the create crunch in August 2007 there were over 30,000 mortgage products available.

Hannah-Mercedes Skenfield, mortgages channel manager at moneysupermarket.com, said: “This is good news for buyers