Each week Mortgage Solutions and its sister title Specialist Lending Solutions pick the top comments from our readers.
This week’s comment came in response to the feature: ‘Immoral’ estate agent sponsored advisers are bad for everyone ‒ JLM Mortgage Services
Arron said: “It is time to ban agents from selling services to both sides of a transaction, as it has muddied who is their customer and whose interests are primary.
“Inflated legal fees are now becoming the norm with £500 referral fees. Together with compelled mortgage advice, none of this serves consumer interests or protection.”
Darryl Dhoffer added: “I pre-arm my clients who are looking to buy with the following – and it does seem to work with some agents: ‘The Estate Agents Act 1979 states that every offer must be put forward to the seller regardless of whether the buyer has obtained their mortgage from the broker recommended by the estate agent’.”
Shekina is the deputy editor at Mortgage Solutions and commercial editor at Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions. She has nearly eight years of experience in the B2B publishing market, having previously covered the hospitality, retail, pet, accounting and jewellery sectors.
Shekina has worked for Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions for almost five years. Here, she covers the market’s breaking news stories, engages with professionals in the sector, and oversees any commercially agreed content in partnership with mortgage-related companies.
This includes presenting webinars and hosting roundtable discussions on developing themes in the mortgage sector.
She is an NCTJ-trained journalist and was nominated for the Headline Money Awards Mortgage Journalist of the Year in 2021.
In her spare time, Shekina likes to read, travel, listen to music and socialise with friends.
She currently reports on current events in the mortgage market and liaises with financial clients to produce sponsored content.
Follow her on Twitter at @ShekinaMS
