Mortgage Brain has added specialist real estate investor Octopus Real Estate to its sourcing system, allowing broker users to access the firm’s product range.
Octopus Real Estate specialises in property lending and investment and launched to the market in 2005. It now has over £2.7bn assets under management.
On the lending side it offers residential bridging, commercial bridging, auction loans, commercial term loans, development loans and greener homes alliance loans and buy-to-let loans. To date it has lent more than £4.5bn.
Steve Matthews, head of residential lending at Octopus Real Estate said: “We’re delighted to partner with Mortgage Brain. The data analysis service provided by the team will give Octopus Real Estate valuable insight that will help us to better understand the needs of our broker partners.”
He added: “In recent months increasing numbers of borrowers have turned to specialist lenders, but the right products are not always easy to find. By hosting our specialist products on Mortgage Brain, we hope to raise awareness of our offering, thereby better supporting intermediaries with their requirements and those of their customers.”
Neil Wyatt (pictured), sales and marketing director at Mortgage Brain added: “Octopus Real Estates offer some great options for intermediaries. Ensuring that the products that are available to all of our users on the system reflect the market is vitally important and we are delighted that Steve and the team see the benefit in partnering with Mortgage Brain.”
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
