Kent Reliance brings specialist products to Openwork panel

Openwork recently reported a year-on-year lending increase of 48% in the year to date and also added specialist lender Fleet Mortgages to its lender panel last month.

Mortgage proposition director at Openwork, Paul Shearman (pictured), said the addition of new lenders to the panel is helping to expand its reach in the specialist lending sector.

“The buy-to-let and broader specialist lending market is moving rapidly and ensuring we offer the very best of the UK lenders operating in this space is critical to our strategy,” he said.

“Kent Reliance has been a massive success story in recent years and we are sure its proposition, particularly in the complex buy-to-let arena, will be well received by our advisers.”

Openwork said it saw mortgage lending climb to a six-year high of £9.1bn in 2015 and expects to write more than £10bn worth of mortgage business this year.