Welcome to part three of our interest-only panel debate, in association with Leeds Building Society.
With 140,000 interest-only borrowers coming to the end of their mortgage term next year, our expert panelists answer the question “Who does interest-only work for?”
Our panel (from left to right below) features:
Victoria Hartley, group editor and chair Mortgage Solutions
Andrew Montlake, director, Coreco
Mark Graves, sales director, Sesame Bankhall Group
Gareth Lowman, associate director, SPF Private Clients
Martese Carton, head of intermediary distribution, Leeds Building Society
For the first two videos in the series, click below.
Why are interest-only cases still the hardest to place? Video panel – part one
How does the regulator view interest-only? Video panel part two
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.
