The Bank of England holding the base rate stable at 5.25 per cent was positively received by the mortgage sector this week, and widely read by brokers.
The news that Brad Fordham would join Natwest and that John Scrivens would become head of sales at Stonebridge ranked highly in the most read this week.
Market share of buy-to-let lending, progress on the leasehold bill and the trajectory of mortgage pricing and the base rate also proved popular with readers this week.
Exclusive: Natwest hires ex-Santander mortgage head Fordham
Leasehold bill passes next stage in Parliament
Exclusive: Stonebridge hires Scrivens as sales head
Brokers’ value in the product transfer era – Krampah-Williams
‘I get 99 per cent of my leads from Instagram’ – mortgage adviser
Mortgage rates fall for 20th week in a row – Rightmove
Base rate held steady again at 5.25 per cent
Share of buy-to-let lending falls to lowest since 2010 – BoE
US mortgage rates fall again – view from across the pond
HSBC to lower resi and BTL rates
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.
