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MIIR’s summer edition highlights how improving business levels has seen confidence amongst intermediaries return, encouraging firms to expand operations. Following a period of fiscal and political uncertainty at home and abroad, the summer edition of the Mortgage Intermediary Insight Report reveals a sense of optimism is returning to mortgage brokers.
The Summer edition of the Mortgage Intermediary Insight Report, based on a survey of over 200 mortgage brokers, reveals that:
The research also reveals how the current state of the property market is influencing the intermediary outlook for various aspects of business and how this, in turn, shapes their plans for the future, finding:
Louisa Sedgwick, Paragon Bank’s Commercial Director for Mortgages, said: “While we’re yet to see any reduction to Bank Base Rate, the economic picture has improved throughout 2024 and this is reflected in an uptick in business volumes across both residential and buy-to-let property markets.
“Looking at buy-to-let specifically, intermediaries have reinforced our understanding of affordability being the most prominent challenge facing landlords. As we see rates continue to come down, brokers largely anticipate purchases, remortgaging and product switch volumes to rise or stay the same, rather than fall over the next year.
“This is helping intermediaries to feel markedly more confident than they did at the start of the year and more are expanding or upskilling existing staff as a result.”
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