Paradigm has launched its latest Mortgage Market Insights videos today (6th January 2025), featuring short interviews with senior lending personnel about their views on the market for the first quarter of 2025, and expectations for the rest of the year.
Now in its third year, the series includes interviews with Richard Howes, director of mortgages at Paradigm, and Rob Barnard, relationship director at Pepper Money, Richard Beardshaw, head of sales, mortgage intermediaries at HSBC, and Phil Riches, sales director at Keystone Property Finance.
Each interview discusses expectations for the intermediary mortgage market in Q1 2025, including potential values, volumes, and headwinds for the year ahead.
Howes said: “Over the last couple of years we’ve sought to get the views of senior lending personnel in order to get a grasp on where they think the market might be, what might unfold during the first quarter, and also a longer-term perspective on the year as a whole.”
Howes added: “This time around we are pleased to get views from mainstream, specialist and buy-to-let players who have each been able to provide insight into their specific areas of expertise and indeed on how they as lenders are approaching the year ahead.”
Barnard said: “It was great to sit down and be part of this look at 2025 with Paradigm; most brokers and lenders should be coming into 2025 with bigger pipelines than they came into 2024 with, and hopefully the new year will bring with it more consistency in the mortgage market.
“The specialist sector will undoubtedly continue to grow, and the solutions offered by lenders like Pepper Money present more brokers with the opportunity to solve more of their customers’ complex situations.”
