I’m sure that we will see a number of twists, turns and shifts in focus throughout the mortgage market over the next 12 months, with specialist sectors likely to be at the heart of many key trends. When looking ahead to 2024, a comment which stood out for me was from...

The intermediary market has always played a crucial role in helping open the doors to a range of funding needs for businesses of all shapes, sizes and structures. In such a complex economic climate, this specialist support is even more evident as businesses continue...

It’s always interesting to compare transactional volumes that we are seeing as a business with the statistics and data which are constantly emerging from the wider mortgage market. For much of 2023, volumes across a variety of specialist sectors have been fairly...

The past few years have certainly been harder to predict than many of their predecessors. While it takes a brave person to put their head on the chopping block in terms of placing some hard and fast numbers on lending volumes or potential house price movement, there...

As we come towards the final few weeks of 2023, it’s been one of those years that seems to have flashed by in the blink of an eye, yet also one which – at times – has lasted an eternity. This thought came into my mind due to the fact that only a few weeks ago we...

Given the sustained lull in the overall volume of property-related transactions over the course of 2023, from the outside in at least, there may be a common misconception that the mortgage market is running on empty. Of course, it’s the sheer quantity of the more...

Our Managing Director Donna Wells was recently quoted in a story about the bridging finance sector on Mortgage Solutions https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2023/11/01/bridging-rates-hit-highest-level-since-2015/

The sharp transition from a long-standing low interest environment to a significantly higher one has inevitably given rise to some short, medium and longer-term concerns over remortgage payments, existing financial commitments and property-related plans. These lending...

Donna Wells, Managing Director at Envelop September 2023 marked 28 years since the launch of AuctionWeb, a site "dedicated to bringing together buyers and sellers in an honest and open marketplace". Two years later, a relaunch saw it become one of the most recognised...

Donna Wells, Director at Envelop We’ve seen no end of market turmoil over the past six to 12 months – and beyond – but guess what? Our phones are still ringing constantly, enquiries continue to flood in regarding a variety of property purchases/refinancing and...