This week's poll asks if your firm is actively targeting more specialist business from the bridging, seconds and commercial sectors, to buy to let or even older customers with interest-only mortgages.
On sister title, Specialist Lending Solutions, mergers and acquisitions consultant Quayle Munro said the future is looking bright for the specialist lenders.
Yashin Mody, its associate director said: “The specialists took their knocks back in 2007/08 and they’ve come back stronger, fitter and with better propositions and better technology. There’s every reason to believe that the next decade could be a transformative time for the sector. The mainstream mortgage market is there to be disrupted, if the specialists can seize the opportunity.”
Our poll tests that theory to see if brokers are willing to support the sector to drive the expected growth.
Vote now to be part of the conversation on Mortgage Solutions.
Are you actively seeking more specialist borrowers this year?
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.
