The news that Large Mortgage Loans was ceasing mortgage broker operations topped the most read this week.
The Openwork Partnership and LSL acquiring Tenet’s appointed representative (AR) network and its potential ramifications for the market also piqued readers’ interest.
The trajectory of mortgage rates, house prices and the base rate filled out the rest of the list.
Large Mortgage Loans to cease mortgage broker operations
Nationwide trims rates by 0.4 per cent
A sad day for the industry and for Tenet. What now for affected ARs? – Day
Another two base rate hikes predicted for this year
The Openwork Partnership and LSL acquire Tenet’s AR network
Stamp duty drops as IHT receipts look set to break records ‒ HMRC
Mortgage rates continue to fall as lenders ‘price competitively where they can’ – Rightmove
House prices to fall by seven per cent but ‘a correction, not a crash’ – Deutsche Bank
Conditional selling ‘will only get worse’ and could ‘erupt into open warfare’ ‒ Star Letter 18/08/2023
It’s time to dig into the detail of Consumer Duty practices – Wilson
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.
