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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.

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.

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.

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

Reduced political uncertainty to support UK mortgage market growth in 2020 and 2021, IMLA report shows
16 January 2020

The mortgage market is set to return to growth over the next two years, according to the latest report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA).

Intermediary DIP volumes remain stable in Q3 2019
10 December 2019

Case volumes among advisers have remained steady in Q3 2019, despite the political uncertainty, according to the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association’s (IMLA) Mortgage Market Tracker.

IMLA cautions against Mortgage Market Study unrealistically raising borrower expectations
22 July 2019

It will take time for lenders to adopy modified assessment processes suggested by the regulator and this could disadvantage trapped borrowers.

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’

Repeated spike in remortgage completions ahead of second Bank interest rate rise in a decade
05 September 2018

IMLA Mortgage Market Tracker – Q2 2018

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

CML regulated mortgage survey for January 2013
14 March 2013

Peter Williams, Executive Director of IMLA, comments

CML regulated mortgage survey for December/Q4 2012
12 February 2013

Peter Williams, Executive Director of IMLA, comments

CML lending figures for October 2012
12 December 2012

Peter Williams, Executive Director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), comments on today’s CML lending figures for October, which show remortgage lending increased to £3.5bn from £3.2bn in September. House purchase loans rose by 14% month-on-month from 43,500 to 49,500: a 10% increase in activity compared with October 2011.

IMLA: the great housing debate continues
23 May 2012

As debate about the UK housing market continues, the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), the industry body for lenders who market their products primarily through intermediaries, comments on recent findings and discussions.