After the resilience the housing market has shown in the past 18 months, you could be forgiven for thinking the market is as healthy as it can be.
The mortgage market has reached a fever pitch recently. The stampede of clients towards the back end of 2020 has slowed slightly, but most brokers are still rushed off their feet.
Another prolonged bout of uncertainty is the last thing the market needs.
He is going to have to show that his government is the one that is finally going to do something about this.
If a business was changing its management that frequently you’d be selling your shares.
Every time the government climbs a ladder, it seems to run into another snake.
Why do we have a legal system that allows the housebuying process to be so risky?
In a fairly subdued housing market, first-time buyers are bucking the trend. The number of new first-time buyer mortgages reached a 12-year high last year, with 370,000 first-time buyer mortgages completed in 2018.
We need the government to think about whether it does actually want to build more homes, or just wants to say it will, just because it makes a good sound bite, and helps win votes.
It is clear that equity release is here to stay, which means all mortgage brokers should have it within their proposition.
