Specialist Lending Panel – Kent Reliance, MyHomeMove, Alexander Hall, Hodge Life

With the ongoing pandemic creating significant travel challenges, the Great British Staycation has never been more vital to our lives, and therein represents an interesting opportunity for investment. COVID-19 has forced us to re-evaluate the significance of the Holiday-Let market.

Join our panel session, hosted by Danny Belton, our Head of Lender Relationships, to find out what brokers and customers should be aware of in this market sector, including consideration of the benefits of investing in a Holiday-let as opposed to a standard Buy-to-Let property.

Our participating Lenders are:
•Dudley Building Society
•Harpenden Building Society
•Leeds Building Society
•Swansea Building Society

As a complement to our general specialist lending panel, why not join us for our upcoming roundtables to hear directly from a range of lenders on how to write Buy-to-Let business in the specialist lending market. Hear about the specific opportunities available to you as brokers, and a wealth of hints and tips on how to approach these types of cases.

Our participating Lenders are:
•Kent Reliance for Intermediaries
•Keystone Property Finance
•Landbay
•Lend Invest
•Vida Homeloans
•West One

Our high-level panel, hosted by our Head of Lender Relationships, Danny Belton, will take a broad view of the specialist lending market. Join us to find out about the consumer needs affecting this sector, where the demand lies and then consequently, what are the biggest opportunities available going forward. We will also touch upon issues and challenges around both self-employed and second charge, as well as those customers who have experienced defaults through scenarios caused by the pandemic.

Our participating Lenders are:
•Darlington Building Society
•Kensington Mortgages
•Molo Finance
•Pepper Money

Join Craig Hall, Head of Broker Relationships & Propositions, in conversation with David O'Leary, Policy Director at the Home Builders Federation, as they discuss a range of challenges and opportunities within the housebuilding sector such as:

• How has the housebuilding sector recovered since re-opening 10 months ago
• The reaction to the budget from the sector and what other support the Government should or could provide
• The status of the supply side in terms of achieving the previously stated aim of 300,000 new homes p.a
• The impact of the move to the new FTB Help to Buy scheme upon housebuilders
• The potential impact of the Mortgage Guarantee scheme upon the work HBF has done with its members regarding private schemes
• The HBF and housebuilders view on the forthcoming First Home scheme

Join us on our upcoming webinar in partnership with Harpenden Building Society, "Specialist Lending - we see opportunities". Hosted by Graeme Aitken, Business Development Manager at Harpenden, the webinar will explore how, while many lenders use complex systems and algorithms, Harpenden's proposition is based upon a common-sense and individual approach. They take a flexible approach and look at many types of income when assessing affordability.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday 28th April at 11.00am via the L&G Mortgage Club BrightTALK channel.

So continue to gain more market insight across 2021 and register your place today for the webinar.

Join Roger Morris, Group Distribution Director for InterBay Commercial on a journey through all things holiday let mortgages. Whilst considered a relatively small sector of the market, Roger will showcase this.

In the session he’ll cover how a holiday let mortgage differs to a buy to let mortgage and potential case quirks, as well as identifying those customers that could benefit from diverse criteria. This will enable you to consider all the different aspects on a case. Plus, he’ll be looking at the recent government focus on this area of the market.

This is a real journey of discovery, and you’ll walk away with a deeper and wider understanding of how you can help a landlord consider purchasing a holiday let.

It really is a session not to be missed!

Join Vida Homeloans as they explore how the global pandemic has changed the specialist lending sector and how intermediaries can adapt their business to suit the new landscape. Attendees will learn about the effects Covid-19 has had on consumers and why they now may need a specialist lender, how lifetime events such as a divorce or redundancy might change a client's suitability for particular products, and what opportunities and challenges lie in wait during 2021.

It’s the end of another tax year but we can all agree its been a year like no other, particularly for those who are self-employed. Our panel session, hosted by Danny Belton, Head of Lender Relationships will explore this area of the market, looking at how lenders may look to adapt their propositions to underwrite self-employed customers.

Another aim of the panel is to support brokers to better understand the challenges and opportunities within this space, so they can then provide self-employed clients with knowledgeable solutions and advice. Other topics of interest will be the impact of payment holidays, whether a government grant creates perceptions of a failing business and going forward, how can the market increase innovation in this area.

Our participating lenders are:

Aldermore
Bank of Ireland
Kensington Mortgages
The Mortgage Lender

Bridging is new to the L&G proposition in 2021, so please join us for our Bridging roundtables, where a selection of lenders with expertise in this area will give you an update on the current state of the market and where the opportunities lie for brokers. Our guest lenders will also demonstrate how bridging can support a mortgage market that is emerging from a unique environment dominated by COVID, as well as the key areas where brokers should consider a bridging solution.

Our participating lenders are:

Masthaven
Octane Capital
Roma Finance
Together Money
United Trust Bank

Join Metro Bank as Charles Morley, Director of Mortgage Distribution, provides his insight into the UK mortgage market, how 2020 impacted us all and the opportunity created by Metro Bank’s specialist journey. He will be joined by Frankie Kitchen and Jade Stroudley, two Business Development Managers, who will run through the recent launch into near prime, as well as their continued support for the self-employed sector, their recent criteria enhancements and the Metro Bank lending solution.

Following on from our previous EWS1 & Cladding webinars, our panel have reconvened to address the new RICS guidance that has been published around identifying materials used for cladding and on balconies, and a framework for valuers when considering the need for an EWS1 form.

The new guidance comes into effect 5th April 2021, so join our host Kevin Roberts and our panel to find out all about the changes to ensure you remain in the know about this key topic.

Our panellists are:

Geoff Bramall - Head of Technical Services, Legal & General Surveying Services
Derek Adams - Key Relationship Manager, Skipton Building Society
Jonathan Evans - Business Development Manager, Skipton Building Society

Social media is the single biggest marketing opportunity available to your mortgage business - but with new platforms springing up every five minutes, it can be difficult to know where to focus your energy to drive real results.

Stuffed with up-to-the-minute tips, our 45 min session is designed to teach you your tweets from your Instas and will cover everything from copy to videos. By the end of the session, you’ll have the foundations for a simple but effective plan for selling your business on social.

Join Hodge's open discussion with Emma Graham, their Business Development Director and James Enos, Senior BDM. Hosted by Wes Regis, National Account Manager, the discussion focuses on when Hodge can help your clients with specialist Holiday Let and Later Life mortgage solutions – and how!

Fleet Mortgages is a specialist Buy to Let lender based in Fleet, Hampshire. Lending exclusively through the intermediary sector, we offer Buy to Let mortgages for residential landlords as well as limited companies and those seeking finance for HMOs and Multi Unit Blocks. Our rental cover calculations mean that, if required, applicants can often borrow more from us. We don’t stress test background portfolios and always strive for 24 hour turnaround times.

We have a highly experienced team, with flexible criteria, we pride ourselves on making complex Buy-to-let simple.

We have a host of benefits to help support and build your business and strengthen our relationship, building a valued partnership.

During our presentation we will be taking a look at the opportunities in the BTL Market, highlighting our recent successes, we will then go on to discuss how capital markets influence non-banks behaving differently and how confident funders are in terms of UK BTL market.

Welcome to the latest Virtual New Build Forum, from Legal & General Mortgage Club

Agenda includes:

•New Build and Housing Market update - Gabby Foord – Associate, Savills
•Housebuilders update - David O’Leary – Policy Director, Home Builders Federation
•Help to Buy update - Andy Nelson – Head of Operational Policy, Help to Buy, Homes England
•Lender Q&A session

The Mortgage Lender look at the self-employed market including the effects of Covid-19 on how self-employed applicants will be assessed by mortgage lenders moving forward. Join us on this talk series to learn how TML can help you place your self-employed cases as well as a review around how to interpret self-employed accounts from one of our top underwriters.

To mark the upcoming International Women's Day, the Mortgage Club will be hosting a panel session of prominent female figures from across the lender & broker communities to discuss their roles within the industry, the challenges they face, the opportunities they have experienced, and what the future landscape of the industry may look like from a gender diversity perspective.

Hosted by Clare Beardmore, Head of Digital Transformation & Operations for the L&G Mortgage Club, we are delighted the panel will include:

Esther Dijkstra - Managing Director, Intermediaries, Lloyds Banking Group
Louisa Sedgwick - Managing Director Mortgages, Vida Homeloans
Donna Brenchley - Proposition Director, Mortgage Advice Bureau
Emma Hollingworth - Distribution Director, M:Qube

With Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries now live on SmartrFit, join our host Clare Beardmore, our Head of Digital Transformation & Operations, as she discusses with Derek Adams, Key Relationship Manager for Skipton, the value of the combined search criteria tool & affordability calculator from the lender perspective.

Derek will also discuss how the tool can help advisers write new business with Skipton more effectively, plus an outline of their current criteria and affordability.

Clare will also outline the roadmap for SmartrFit enhancements and updates across 2021.