A £1.3b digital disruption opportunity for mortgage brokers REPORT
Key Findings:
Despite Brexit uncertainty, mortgage lending is up, with £275b in new loans in 2018, and growth forecast to continue.
Despite a downgrade in the overall growth rate as a result of Brexit uncertainty, transaction volumes are forecast to grow at a 3.1% CAGR between Q1 2019 and Q2 2024. There is approximately £1.4 trillion in outstanding mortgage debt in the UK.
The mortgage brokerage industry generated £1.31b in fees and commissions, up 13% from the previous year.
The proportion of mortgage sales where an intermediary was involved grew to 72% in 2018, an increase from about half that, since 2010. This continues alongside growing volumes.
But technology is causing disruption to traditional brokerage business models.
Data from the FCA shows there are 5,210 directly authorised mortgage intermediary firms in the UK (in addition to 14,169 firms with Appointed Representative status). This is still considerably less than the 30,000 brokers operating in the space before 2007.
"Robo-brokers’ are capturing the prime market and using automation.
Several large ‘robo-brokers’ have emerged over the last 5 years and increasingly serve the “easy’ customers through mostly low-contact, highly automated processes:
There are £1.3b in fees available to firms in 4 key categories:
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