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Time to manage borrower expectations as Stamp Duty deadline approaches
17 January 2025

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.

Confidence returns to mortgage market with intermediary business levels up in Q4 2023
05 February 2024

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker Report from IMLA reveals that 83% of advisers felt confident about the outlook for the mortgage market in December 2023, with the average number of cases placed annually by mortgage brokers rising to 103 in Q4.

Pure Retirement becomes latest IMLA member
31 January 2024

Lifetime mortgage provider Pure Retirement has become the latest full member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association

Pegasus Insight becomes the latest associate IMLA member
04 September 2023

Pegasus Insight, a recently established professional research services consultancy, has become the latest associate member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association

Intermediary confidence in mortgage market ‘surprisingly’ steady for Q2 as business levels hold
15 August 2023

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from IMLA reveals surprisingly upbeat market sentiment among advisers during Q2, although the data indicate growing caution about the outlook for the sector.

Bespoke specialist lender MFS becomes the latest full IMLA member
02 May 2023

Market Financial Solutions, a leading independent bridging finance provider, has become the latest full member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association

Specialist lender MT Finance becomes the latest full IMLA member
18 January 2023

MT Finance, a leading property finance lender, has become the latest full member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association

IMLA elects 2023 Management Committee members
01 December 2022

Jeremy Duncombe, Accord Mortgages, retains his place as Chair and Richard Beardshaw, HSBC, elected as Deputy Chair

Mortgage technology provider Mast becomes latest IMLA associate member
27 September 2022

Mast, a technology provide to mortgage lenders, has become the latest associate member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association

Netcall becomes latest Associate Member to join IMLA
20 July 2022

Financial automation and customer engagement specialist Netcall has today become the latest associate member to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), bringing the total membership to 51 full members and 16 associates.

MPowered Mortgages becomes latest lender to join IMLA
31 May 2022

The addition of MPowered Mortgages brings IMLA’s total number of full and associate members to 65, spanning banks, building societies, non-bank lenders and mortgage service providers.

Three building societies join as new IMLA members
19 April 2022

Cumberland Building Society, Saffron Building Society and Melton Building Society become IMLA’s latest members, making the combined total of 64 full and associate members

Danske Bank UK becomes latest lender to join IMLA
24 January 2022

Danske Bank UK is the latest lender to join IMLA’s membership, making a total of 59 full and associate members spanning a range of banks, building societies, non-bank lenders and mortgage service providers.

Government must maintain balance between home ownership and private rental sector in 2022
17 January 2022

The recommendation is part of IMLA’s 2022 Mortgage Market Manifesto, identifying key areas of focus for the market this year

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.

Mortgage sector cautions on impact of hard Stamp Duty deadline for homebuyers and sellers
18 December 2020

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) and The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) are issuing this joint warning to members about buyers hoping to complete their property purchases before the Stamp Duty deadline of 31st March

IMLA represents UK top 10 as membership grows with TSB
05 May 2020

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has announced that TSB Bank has joined as the latest member of the trade body. The addition of TSB means IMLA has now increased its membership to 43 lenders, including all of the UK’s top 10 lenders ranked by gross lending.

First-time buyer mortgage completion rate at three-year high amid broker Brexit uncertainty
12 March 2019

IMLA Mortgage Market Tracker – Q4 2018

Softening mortgage market highlights Brexit concerns - IMLA Mortgage Market Tracker – Q3 2018
27 November 2018

Softening mortgage market highlights Brexit concerns – IMLA Mortgage Market Tracker – Q3 2018