For many years, we have been a specialist in helping clients attain high value mortgages, often where there is a history of complex income structures or other out-of-the-ordinary factors in respect of traditional lending criteria.
We work with all lenders – high street banks, private banks, challenger banks and assorted specialist lenders - and we have spent many years building such valued relationships. As a result, those well-established bonds often result in some leverage for our loan applications. Furthermore, we are privileged to be on key lenders’ ‘exclusive panels’ which occasionally allow access to mortgage products at discounted rates of interest, designed especially for lenders to meet their lending targets.
Such an adviser will have an in-depth knowledge of the products available and the terms and conditions that apply to each one. High street lenders can only offer a mortgage from their own ranges and can be relatively inflexible on lending criteria, rates and fees.
Such an adviser will have access to the growing number of lenders who have no high street presence: an impartial adviser, with access to the whole of the market, is more likely to find you the best deal available.
Such an adviser will not work for an estate agent or work in an estate agent’s office. Estate Agents are paid by the vendors and many of us will question whether they can also act for the buyers, by arranging the mortgages for them.
Such an adviser will have the experience and expertise to weigh up all of the variables and recommend the right lender for your circumstances, and then negotiate the most suitable deal. Comparison websites and ‘best buy tables’ cannot reflect the wide range of factors that will affect the overall cost of a particular mortgage product.
Such an adviser will negotiate with the lender on your behalf. He or she will know if the lender is taking a reasonable approach to your application, taking too long to process it or making unreasonable demands for information. He or she will also be able to explain the whole process to you in a straightforward, professional manner and be able to complete the entire mortgage process, from outset to completion, on your behalf.
Such an adviser will have developed relationships with a number of lenders over the years. This may mean that the lender will be more flexible in their approach to your application.
Such an adviser adds value that is recognised by lenders and many of the latter offer exclusive products via intermediaries.
Such an adviser will be able to offer information, advice and arrange the most suitable life assurance to cover the mortgage commitment.
Mortgage loans for older borrowers
An achievement to be proud of is our contribution to a 10yrs+ general campaign for the entitlement of older borrowers to mortgage borrowing. It involved many meetings and discussions with lenders, journalists, regulatory bodies and even articles written, in order to drive home this empowerment and right. Now, lenders have ‘seen the light’ and a growing number is active in and lending to this particular market: more lenders will join the party, over time.
Business Protection
The importance of business protection is often overlooked - found that 52% of the UK’s small businesses think they would cease trading in less than 12 months, if a business owner or key employee died or became too ill work*.
Yet, most businesses will insure their premises, vehicles and stock, while overlooking protection for their ‘real’ assets – their owners, their key people and their financial liabilities.
Our business protection specialists source solutions from a wide range of insurance companies and are flexible enough to cater for different types of businesses, including sole traders, partnerships, and limited companies.
*Source: Legal and General, Business Protection, State of the Nation Report Sixth Edition.
A significant amount of our business is introduced to us by professional firms that hold fast to our basic principles
honesty with advice
strict confidentiality
transparency regarding fees (more often than not, we don’t charge one)
effective use of our client’s time and of our own time