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IMLA predicts healthy lending growth for 2025, greater intermediary business and more remortgaging
23 December 2024

The latest report from the IMLA The new ‘normal’—prospects for 2025 and 2026 examines the mortgage market in 2024 and presents a set of forecasts for the residential and buy-to-let mortgage markets over the next two years.

Mortgage market to contract slightly in 2024 before recovering in 2025; intermediary share keeps growing
20 December 2023

IMLA has published its annual report on prospects for the mortgage and housing markets over the next two years. The ‘New Normal’ report estimates that gross lending fell to £225.5 billion in 2023, down 28% on the previous year.

Mortgage market to slow in 2023 and 2024 but borrowers remain resilient in the face of global upheavals, IMLA report predicts
21 December 2022

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published its “New ‘normal’ – prospects for 2023 and 2024” report, predicting mortgage market performance in 2023 and 2024

Average intermediary caseloads dip in the third quarter of 2022—IMLA report reveals
09 November 2022

Demand in the mortgage market has dipped slightly in Q3 2022, most likely as a result of the current turbulent economic climate, with the latest data from IMLA’s Mortgage Market Tracker showing that average intermediary case volumes decreased slightly from 97 in Q2 to 93 in Q3.

Average intermediary caseload volumes fall in the first quarter of 2022 from record peak in Q4 2021, but confidence remains high—IMLA report reveals
25 May 2022

Intermediary confidence in the outlook for their own firms remained strong, with 62% feeling ‘very confident’ and 98% feeling ‘very confident’ or ‘fairly confident’.

Average intermediary caseload volumes reach record high in Q4, according to IMLA
15 February 2022

Intermediary confidence in the outlook for their own firms was also strong, with 62% feeling ‘very confident’ and 98% confident overall.

Mortgage market set for quieter 2022 after unprecedented 2021, IMLA report predicts
10 January 2022

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published its 2022 ‘The New Normal—prospects for 2022 and 2023’ report, predicting mortgage market performance in 2022 and 2023

House price earnings ratio reaches historic high in 2021 as UK experiences mortgage affordability paradox
29 November 2021

The latest research from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association suggests that the UK is experiencing a mortgage affordablility paradox.

Adviser business volumes reached record levels in Q2 2021, according to IMLA
10 August 2021

Six in ten intermediaries felt very confident about the outlook for their own firm in Q2 2021 compared to four in ten this time last year

IMLA predicts the housing and mortgage recovery from Covid will remain robust
26 July 2021

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has today published its report on the impact of Covid on the UK housing and mortgage market – one year on.

Intermediary confidence returned to pre-pandemic levels in Q1 2021, according to IMLA
17 May 2021

Advisers’ confidence in the outlook for the mortgage industry recovered in Q1 2021 to levels not seen since before the start of the coronavirus crisis, according to IMLA’s latest Mortgage Market Tracker.

Intermediary case volumes fell in Q4 but confidence in market outlook remained strong
03 February 2021

The average number of mortgage cases handled by advisers fell from 90 between July and September to 78 in Q4, research from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) found. However, the vast majority of advisers remained positive about the outlook for their businesses (96%), the intermediary sector (92%), and the wider mortgage market (85%).

Mortgage market set for growth in 2021 despite coronavirus disruption, IMLA report shows
15 January 2021

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published its 2021 New Normal report which looks at how the mortgage market could perform in 2021 and 2022

Record highs for intermediary market confidence in Q4 2019
12 February 2020

Intermediaries were more confident about the outlook of the mortgage market in Q4 2019 than at any other point during the year, the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has found in its latest Mortgage Market Tracker. According to the research, 93% of mortgage intermediaries were confident about the outlook for the mortgage industry heading into 2020.

UK intermediaries confident they can ‘weather the storm’ of political uncertainty
12 November 2019

Intermediaries are confident they can weather the storm of Brexit and a general election, the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has found in its latest Mortgage Market Tracker. According to the research, 91% of mortgage intermediaries said they were either ‘very confident’ or ‘fairly confident’ about the outlook for the mortgage industry.

Mortgage Market Outlook Stable But Millions of Young People Risk Not Getting on Housing Ladder
12 February 2019

New IMLA report: ‘The New Normal: Prospects for 2019 and 2020’

Growth in mortgage lending forecast to continue, despite Brexit uncertainties
28 March 2018

IMLA releases the fifth in our series of annual reports looking at the outlook for the UK mortgage market in the coming year

IMLA comments on CML gross mortgage lending figures, March
27 April 2016

Peter Williams, Executive Director of IMLA, comments on the CML gross mortgage lending figures, March

IMLA comments on gross mortgage lending for December 2015 (CML)
01 February 2016

Peter Williams, Executive Director of IMLA, comments on data for December 2015 from CML

IMLA comments on the seven-year high for gross mortgage lending in July (CML)
20 August 2015

Peter Williams, Executive Director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), comments on CML’s estimate of £22bn gross mortgage lending in July, the highest monthly total since July 2008