Blacks Solicitors is a 30-partner law firm with over 200 employees. It provides a wide range of legal services to commercial and private clients across the UK.

Blacks is one of the leading providers of legal services to the residential property market. It has a large customer-focused team with over 70 members operating nationally, that specialises in residential buy-to-let and bridging finance.

Blacks’ residential property team possesses extensive experience acting for buy-to-let and bridging lenders. The team acts for specialist lenders on both a dual and separate representation basis and has a separate team dealing with lender-only instructions.

It also works with mortgage brokers who benefit from its industry focus and understanding.

The law firm also has a strong client base of residential landlords, ranging from clients who own a single investment property to professional landlords who operate large portfolios.

Blacks’ specialist knowledge enables it to deal with buy-to-let, multi-unit freehold buildings, Houses in Multiple Occupation, title splitting, lease creation, lease extensions, portfolio financing and new build properties.

Clever Lending are a Master Broker and specialist packager of Bridging and Development Finance, Commercial Mortgages and Specialist Buy to Let.

Their team of experts are passionate about providing a hands-on personal service and can find solutions with ‘out of the box’ thinking.

They work closely with lenders to deliver positive outcomes and the right solutions for your customers, even if their circumstances are out of the ordinary.

Clever Lending provide the perfect combination of technology, experience and customer service to ensure your regulated or not regulated enquiries are submitted quickly and easily, whilst you receive personal support and advice along the way from our team of qualified specialists.

Crystal Specialist Finance is an award-winning Specialist Finance distributor, providing Commercial Finance, Bridging Loans, Second Charge Loans, Development Finance and Specialist Residential & Buy to Let Mortgages. Our goal is to provide simple solutions to even the most complex financial problems. Each and every enquiry is reviewed on its own merits and we work with you to find the very best product available for your clients. Our blend of speed, service and flexibility allows us to offer our brokers and their clients the best deal for their circumstances.

As experts in delivering bespoke broker solutions, InterBay specialises in commercial, semi-commercial, buy-to-let mortgages and bridging.

It looks to say ‘yes’ to complex cases, using a wealth of knowledge and an experienced manual underwriting team to find the right solutions for you.

InterBay’s underwriters work together with national specialist finance account managers, as well as real estate and completions teams. We build long-lasting relationships with brokers and partner with them on high-value, challenging cases.

InterBay, along with Precise and Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, is a specialist lending brand of OSB GROUP PLC.

Landbay is an award-winning mortgage platform, created for its customers, designing better ways to buy-to-let.

Landbay focuses on the customer. It brings together the best people and partners, leveraging their data, technology and market expertise.

Choose Landbay and you’ll find experts at the end of the line, smart technology designed for you, and fast decisions you can count on.

Its team, the community and the wider world matter to Landbay. It is carbon neutral.

And its industry awards and customer reviews speak for themselves. Landbay is committed to becoming your go-to mortgage funding partner.

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) is an award-winning specialist finance lender, with over 17 years’ industry experience. With a wide range of bespoke bridging finance and specialist buy-to-let mortgage products available, the lender focuses on providing brokers with speed and flexibility so they can best support their clients.

MFS can provide loans as large as £50m in as little as three days for property investors purchasing in England or Wales. Every enquiry receives a response within four hours, and the lender’s BDMs are always happy to arrange meetings across the UK.

MFS works alongside brokers, taking on all the heavy lifting, and underwrites loans from day one to find the best solution for the borrower. With no tick-box criteria, it looks for reasons to lend, so you can move forward with your client’s case, confidently.

The lender’s expertise, teamwork, and around-the-clock service help it to deliver a bespoke service with a common-sense approach, no matter the complexity.

One Mortgage System (OMS) is more than just a sourcing system. With features that allow you to source, check and submit mortgage applications, saving brokers time is OMS key goal. Other features also include an audit trail, pre-population, DIPs, full two-way lender integration with a number of lenders and more.

The system allows document uploads, sourcing, KFIs, evidence of research, email and SMS updates, pre-underwriting, AVMs, credit searches and so much more to help save brokers hours of administration time.

The system has been developed by working alongside mortgage advisers and observing how they operate. This has resulted in a multi-award-winning system that has amassed over 4,000 users who in the last 12 months have submitted over 42,000 applications.

Pepper Money is a broad specialist lender. They exist to help people succeed. Championing individuality and looking for opportunities to say yes, rather than reasons to say no.

They understand that brokers have a range of different needs, because their customers do, too. These clients may want to take the next step in their homeowning journey. Brokers want to help them, in the most efficient and profitable ways.

Pepper Money are here to help both parties fulfil their ambitions. By offering simple, inclusive products. By having a human approach to decision-making. By being easy to work with. And by providing specialist expertise that can be relied on.

After all, when you keep an open mind and listen to people, everyone succeeds.

Solutions by Foundation is a range of broad and specialist criteria for property or loan types beyond that typically catered for in the buy-to-let market. It includes mortgages for HMOs of unlimited size, part-commercial property, MUBs, and mortgages for Expats.

Square 1 Media is a specialist PR and marketing agency with more than 100 years of collective property and mortgage market experience and a track record for delivering meaningful coverage and commercial results.

As the most influential agency in its industry, it uses its market knowledge and extensive network of contacts to make a tangible difference to its clients. Working with Square 1 enables you to spend your valuable time managing your business, rather than your agency.

It can support with PR, marketing consultancy, content marketing, partner marketing, research, branding and positioning, media training and copywriting.

Together has been delivering specialist secured lending for 50 years, using its wealth of expertise and industry knowledge to consider individual circumstances to find a way to help its customers.

All applications are considered on their merits and the commercial product range includes residential mortgages, short-term finance, buy-to-let, commercial and semi-commercial mortgages and loans, auction finance and development funding throughout mainland UK.

Based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, the company employs more than 750 colleagues and has a loan book of £6.6billion.

Virtus Search has worked closely for many years with mortgage intermediary lenders, representing their opportunities and headhunting talent to progress their business. Moreover, Pete Gwilliam mentors individuals and offers tools and support to enable career growth.

Virtus invests in the mortgage community, contributing to various workstreams that can make the sector more inclusive and equitable.