Barcadia Media
Coming soonSecured Loan Index
UK second-charge lending activity and trends
- Cadence
- monthly
- Research rounds
- 1
The UK mortgage intelligence platform
Independent intelligence the mortgage industry can act on.
Insights turns responses collected from brokers, lenders, networks and property professionals into intelligence you can act on — so you can see what the market is doing, and why, before it shows up in your numbers. Every finding states its sample, how it was done and quality tier.
Platform activity12 research programmes in cycle
The intelligence base, live
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Research programmes
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Open questionnaires
Opening
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Evidence records collected
Opening
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Published reports
Opening
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Contributing organisations
Opening
34
Research panel members
Live counts read directly from the platform. We publish them as they are — including while a programme is still opening — because an intelligence platform that inflates its own numbers cannot ask you to trust the rest.
Latest industry intelligence
What the market is telling us
Each insight is drawn from research with practitioners and states its sample, the dates responses were collected and how it was done, so it can be acted on — and cited.
Financial Reporter
Coming soonBroker Barometer
Quarterly sentiment index for UK mortgage brokers
- Cadence
- quarterly
- Research rounds
- 0
Property Reporter
Coming soonHousing Market Pulse
Monthly read on the UK housing market
- Cadence
- monthly
- Research rounds
- 0
Why Insights exists
Industry decisions deserve better than anecdote
The UK mortgage and property market runs on opinion, press releases and second-hand numbers. Insights exists to replace that with independent, repeatable, evidence-based intelligence the whole industry can cite.
Independent by design
Research is started, run and published by Insights — not sponsored content dressed up as a study. How the research was done, and the sample, are stated on every publication.
Evidence you can audit
Every figure traces back to the research that produced it: sample size, the dates responses were collected, quality tier and a permanent Research ID printed alongside the chart.
The people who run the market
Brokers, lenders, networks, conveyancers and surveyors across the UK mortgage and property sector — the practitioners whose decisions move the industry.
Published to a standard
Nothing is published until it clears an automated quality gate: minimum sample, consent, duplicate handling, completeness and margin of error. No override.
Research programmes
Long-running industry research
Recurring programmes with a clear approach, scheduled research rounds and evidence-backed publications.
Financial ReporterBarcadia Media
Secured Loan Index
UK second-charge lending activity and trends
1 research round
monthly
Financial ReporterFinancial Reporter
Broker Barometer
Quarterly sentiment index for UK mortgage brokers
0 research rounds
quarterly
Property ReporterProperty Reporter
Housing Market Pulse
Monthly read on the UK housing market
0 research rounds
monthly
Protection ReporterProtection Reporter
Protection Monitor
UK protection market activity and adviser sentiment
0 research rounds
quarterly
Financial ReporterFinancial Reporter
Adviser Income Benchmark
Income, remuneration and business benchmarks
0 research rounds
annual
Financial ReporterFinancial Reporter
Adviser Technology Index
How UK advisers adopt and rate technology
0 research rounds
annual
Research publications
Our first publications are on the way
Insights publishes nothing until it clears the quality gate — minimum sample, consent, duplicate handling, completeness and margin of error. Our opening programmes are collecting responses now, and the first reports publish as each research round reaches a publishable sample.
- Every report states sample size, the dates responses were collected and how it was done.
- Each publication carries a permanent Research ID for citation.
- Findings are never published from an indicative sample.
Publishing standard
No evidence, no publication
The quality gate is automated and binding. An editor cannot override it, which is why the library grows slowly and why what is in it can be cited.
AI intelligence
Every report is read by an analyst that never gets tired
Insights runs AI across the accepted evidence in every publication — surfacing themes, contrasts and movements a human reader would take days to find. It is always labelled, always cited, and structurally prevented from producing a number.
How our analysis works- AI trend analysis across every research round
- Themes drawn out from open-text evidence
- Executive summaries drafted from accepted data
- Structured evidence citations on every claim
- Human-reviewed commentary before publication
- Anomaly and segment comparison flagging
How we use AI
AI explains the evidence. It never creates it.
Most research tools let a language model write the numbers. We do the opposite: the numbers come from the research itself, and AI is only ever allowed to explain them.
AI assists interpretation
Our AI reads the accepted evidence and drafts commentary — themes, contrasts, what a finding might mean for the market. It is always labelled as AI commentary.
AI never invents evidence
The model is structurally prevented from introducing a statistic. Every number in a publication is computed from the research data, not generated.
Every insight is traceable
AI findings carry structured evidence references back to the underlying responses, so any claim can be followed to the data that supports it.
Read more about our research governance model, which separates what may never change (evidence rules) from how we operate day to day.
Insights Research Panel
Shape the intelligence the industry reads
Panel members take part in our research, see how their answers were used and get each new finding first — free to join.