Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has appointed an onsite underwriter who will work across a range of South East and London-based specialist distributors and advisers.
Wayne Fitzpatrick spent over a year underwriting in the head office, after joining the lender in March 2018 and prior to this was an underwriter at Complete Cover Group.
He will be responsible for working across a number of specialist distribution firms in-house and providing access to underwriting expertise across Fleet’s range of products and criteria.
He will also work with Fleet’s London sales team, providing technical training and supporting their work with their advisory relationships in the region.
Steve Cox, distribution director of Fleet Mortgages, said: “Wayne has been a key part of the underwriting team at Fleet for over a year but as we have grown the number of packager and distributor relationships, we felt it was important to provide access to onsite underwriting expertise.”
He added: “Specialist distributor partners in London and the South East will now benefit from having access to Wayne so they can develop their understanding of Fleet’s criteria and product knowledge, having someone on hand to ensure they get the best support and resource for their buy-to-let cases. This is a new string to the Fleet bow as we continue to ramp up our increasing commitment to the specialist distributor sector.”
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.
