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Adviser confidence in mortgage market surges
23 May 2025

Intermediary confidence nears historic levels, with a sharp recovery in cases placed.

Broker confidence wobbles post-Budget, picks up in December
06 February 2025

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.

Intermediary confidence in own businesses dips marginally post-election
18 November 2024

Adviser confidence in the outlook for the mortgage market and the intermediary sector remained stable in Q3, but advisers’ confidence in their own businesses fell slightly, according to the latest findings from IMLA’s Mortgage Market Tracker

Intermediary confidence rises to long-run ‘norm’ in Q2 2024 as business volumes grow
08 August 2024

Adviser confidence in outlook for the mortgage market, intermediary sector and own business all up in the first quarter of 2024, according to the latest findings from IMLA’s Mortgage Market Tracker

Intermediary confidence rises in Q1, returning to pre-2022 mini-budget levels
16 May 2024

Adviser confidence in outlook for the mortgage market, intermediary sector and own business all up in the first quarter of 2024, according to the latest findings from IMLA’s Mortgage Market Tracker

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.

Intermediary business levels stable as Q3 promises to be strongest lending quarter of 2023
16 November 2023

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from IMLA reveals that advisers case numbers remain robust, while both DIP-to-completion and App-to-completion numbers have rebounded strongly.

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.

In a crisis, it's important to keep things in perspective
16 June 2023

IMLA statement in response to mortgage market

IMLA report calls for support for landlords as profit margins squeezed
14 June 2023

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association has today released its latest research report, examining the Private Rented Sector (PRS).

Broker concern about product withdrawal with little or no notice
07 June 2023

Joint statement by IMLA and AMI

Intermediary case volumes grow year-on-year as market confidence recovers in Q1
15 May 2023

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has been released today, with data suggesting a growing optimism about the outlook for the mortgage market.

Mortgage market confidence dropped in Q4, but steady caseload volumes show business as usual on the horizon
09 February 2023

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has been released today, finding that the sector has recovered well from the disruption following the mini-budget in September 2022.

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 remain stable in the second quarter of 2022—IMLA report reveals
10 August 2022

Intermediary workload volumes were sustained at Q1 levels, according to the latest findings from IMLA’s Mortgage Market Tracker.

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.

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