Expectations around mortgage pricing, rate cuts by lenders and activity in the buy-to-let market ranked highly in the top 10 this week.
JLM Mortgage Services’ blog on procuration fees, along with an interview with HSBC’s Chris Pearson were also among the most read.
Analyses on remortgages and sourcing systems also proved popular with readers.
Lender confidence boost sees more sub-four per cent mortgages on offer – Rightmove
BTL lenders are refusing to lay low despite the subdued market – Armstrong
Natwest cuts rates; Santander lifts tracker rate – round-up
How do you solve a problem like product transfer proc fees? – JLM
‘We are 100 per cent committed to the broker market’ – HSBC’s Pearson
High street domination of remortgages ‘inevitable’ but no bad thing ‒ analysis
Sourcing systems trying ‘to be too clever’ ‒ analysis
Current base rate may need ‘earlier and faster reversal’, says MPC member
Santander reduces new business and product transfer rates
Cov BS and TSB lower mortgage rates – round-up
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.