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...

Envelop, one of the UK’s leading packaging partners, has reported a substantial uplift in the amount of longer-term specialist business written over the past 12 months as it celebrates the first anniversary of its highly successful rebrand from First 4 Bridging...

The housing and mortgage markets continue to generate a huge amount of column inches, largely centred around falling prices, subdued activity levels and the impact of a heightened interest and mortgage rate environment. According to Zoopla’s August House Price Index,...

In a time when high levels of inflation continue to place additional financial burdens on household budgets, it’s little wonder that a variety of payments are being missed across households which incorporate some very different income generating backgrounds. The...