Southampton-based specialist mortgage broker Mortgage Hut has joined Mortgage Advice Bureau as an Appointed Representative (AR).
The firm, founded by Chris Schutrups just over three years ago, has 15 advisers with specialisms in police mortgages, estate agency and most lately, new build.
Schutrups said: “It was an easy decision to join MAB having met the team there, and also having spoken to firms of scale that have joined them, which I have a great deal of respect for.”
“Our business is about delivering an outstanding customer experience, but also the adviser experience is key, and working with MAB we can take both to another level,” he added.
MAB CEO Peter Brodnicki (pictured) said: “It’s people like Chris who excite me about our industry and what we can all achieve together. The intermediary proposition is a hugely compelling one for consumers, however their expectations of how they wish to engage with intermediaries is changing, and as a result so will the intermediary landscape.”
Mortgage Advice Bureau is a mortgage network with over 840 mortgage advisers and reported revenue up 33% to £75.5m in its first full year results to March post-float in November 2014.
It was the first and currently the only mortgage intermediary to have floated on the London Stock Exchange, having joined the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
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.
