Leicestershire-based ESBS, or Earl Shilton Building Society, has joined Brilliant Solutions lending panel.
Brilliant Solutions’ intermediary members can now access ESBS’ “common-sense and flexible approach” to underwriting.
The lender offers home mover, remortgage, self-build, first-time buyer, professional, agricultural-tie, later life lending, self-employed, construction industry scheme mortgages, Right to Acquire, Right to Buy and mixed-use property mortgages.
Brilliant Solutions was launched in 1994 as a mortgage club and also offers packaging for bridging, development and commercial loans.
Paul Tilley, chief executive of ESBS, said: “We’re delighted that Brilliant Solutions has invited ESBS to be part of its panel. Our expert team are looking forward to assisting the club members with unique solutions to often complex mortgage criteria scenarios.
Matthew Arena (pictured), managing director of Brilliant Solutions, said: “ESBS is a lender that has all the flexible and personal underwriting qualities that brokers love so we are looking forward to working with the team at ESBS and bringing their offering closer to brokers and their customers.”
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.
