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Intermediary confidence dips slightly in Q3 as completions remain steady
The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) shows a slight softening in intermediary confidence at the end of Q3 2025, with the timing of the Budget.
Hands off the housing market
The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has issued a stark warning to Chancellor Rachel Reeves against using the housing market as a convenient target for tax rises in November’s Budget, saying that such measures would fail to raise meaningful revenue and could instead choke off economic growth.
Adviser confidence in mortgage market surges
Intermediary confidence nears historic levels, with a sharp recovery in cases placed.
Broker confidence wobbles post-Budget, picks up in December
Confidence in the mortgage market falters after the October budget, but brokers are more optimistic about the future of the intermediary sector than in the wider industry, with strongest confidence expressed in brokers’ own businesses.
Time to manage borrower expectations as Stamp Duty deadline approaches
Brokers who have not already done so are also being urged to contact those clients at risk of missing the reduced Stamp Duty cut-off, in order to prepare them for the worst-case scenario.
House price earnings ratio reaches historic high in 2021 as UK experiences mortgage affordability paradox
The latest research from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association suggests that the UK is experiencing a mortgage affordablility paradox.
‘Big thinking’ Budget needed to fix broken housing market
The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) is urging the Chancellor to apply a ‘big thinking’ approach to housing in his upcoming Budget Statement (11 March)
Kate Davies, Executive Director of Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) comments on the Autumn 2018 Budget
Kate Davies, Executive Director of Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) comments on the Autumn 2018 Budget
ONS Index of private housing rental prices (IPHRP) in Great Britain for September 2018
Kate Davies, Executive Director of Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) comments on the ONS Index of private housing rental prices (IPHRP) in Great Britain for September 2018
Mortgage lenders call for clarity around future of Help to Buy scheme
Mortgage lenders call for clarity around future of Help to Buy scheme
IMLA comments on the 2016 Budget
Peter Williams, Executive Director of IMLA, comments on today’s Budget announcement
Summer Budget: IMLA comments on mortgage tax relief and interest support
Peter Williams, Executive Director of IMLA, comments on mortgage-related announcements in today’s Summer Budget
Bank of England Funding for Lending - IMLA renews call for expansion of the scheme
Peter Williams, Executive Director of IMLA, responds to the Bank of England’s decision to maintain its existing quantitative easing programme