Mortgage Advice Bureau announced its top lenders, partnerships and mortgage advisers yesterday at its 2020 conference at The Curve in Leicester. Congratulations to all the winners as the force was definitely with them last year and fully celebrated later at the Star Wars-themed event.
Lender award winners
- Best lender for service – NatWest Intermediary Solutions
- Best lender specialist – Precise Mortgages
- Best lender regional building society – Leeds Building Society
- Best lender new build – Halifax Intermediaries
- Best BDM – James Champion – NatWest Intermediary Solutions
- Best lender overall – NatWest Intermediary Solutions
- Best lender first-time buyer – Nationwide For Intermediaries
- Best lender buy-to-let – BM Solutions
- Best lender newcomer – Tesco Bank
The Relationship Award – Accord Mortgages
Business award winners
- Estate agency referrals – Romans Estate Agents
- Fees charged – MAB TIME
- General insurance – MAB Manning Stainton
- Adviser protection sales – MAB DB Roberts
- Overall – Mortgage Bureau
- Newcomer – The Mortgage Hut
Adviser award winners
- Top adviser, buildings and contents – Kevin Lawson, MAB Manning Stainton
- Top adviser, north – Phil Pearson, Meridian
- Top adviser, protection (Protection Only) – Chris Jackson, MAB Brook Financial Services
- Top adviser, protection (Mortgage & Protection) – Phil Pearson, Meridian
- Top adviser, south – Monica Bradley – Monica Bradley Associates
- Top adviser, academy – Lauren Wiles – MAB Farrell Heyworth
- Top adviser, newcomer – Colin Chapman – Genesis Mortgages
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.