Specialist mortgage lender Kensington is set to launch with an as yet undisclosed panel of lenders in April and May, in a bid to accelerate its growth plans.
The lender said research last year suggested a fifth of brokers want to speak to a specialist distributor to help them place more complex cases.
Alex Hammond, head of sales and marketing, said: “It makes sense that they should speak to a specialist and this is a distribution channel that is growing in importance, particularly in our part of the market that deals in more complex cases that require individual underwriting.”
Steve Griffiths, head of sales and distribution at Kensington, said specialist distributors have proven a key channel for Kensington in the past.
“Today’s specialist distributors have built on this expertise to deliver new standards of professionalism and this is a great opportunity to leverage the extended reach and packaging capability of these firms, to help more customers whose real life circumstance get in the way of a standard mortgage application.”
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
