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

With an increased focus on remote working, join our panel to understand the benefits of using a technology-backed conveyancing solution. If your local conveyancer continues to operate out of filing cabinet, then perhaps its time to rethink your approach and embrace an online provider, as opportunities exist for brokers to work with conveyancing partners.

Providers participating are:

The Moving Hub
Simplify
ULS Technology

Join our panel as we take a deep dive into what's happening with the Later Life Lending market, focusing upon the latest for Rio, Equity Release, Bank of Mum & Dad, Bank of Nan & Grandad, and how later life lending is helping the younger generation.

Participating Lenders are:

Key Partnerships
Legal & General Home Finance
Livemore

Is now the right time for clients to make that all-important move? Should they take the plunge and invest in home improvements or that extension they have always wanted? If they're working from home indefinitely, should a client consider building a home office?

Join the Mortgage Club and our guest panellists as they discuss all this questions and more as part of a broader look at the current state of the mortgage market. This discussion will take in high LTV's, stamp duty changes, help-to-buy, shared ownership, further advances and 2nd charges, and how the current climate is affecting these.

Participating Lenders are:

Kensington Mortgages
Leeds Building Society
United Trust Bank
Virgin Money

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, our reliance upon technology continues to grow. In this session we will discuss how brokers can get smarter by embracing available technology to ensure their ability to write business remains seamless and effective, and in particular the benefits of using Electronic ID & V technology.

You can also find out more about the Mortgage Club's newest innovation - SmartrFit, which combines an affordability calculator and criteria search tool.

Participating Lenders are:

Digidentity
Experian
Skipton Building Society

A quick guide of the SmartrFit sourcing tool.

The session focuses on the impact of a second lockdown, and how you thrive and not just survive. The key topics that will be covered are changing customer behaviours and the available technology that can help, as well as looking at some of the accelerated innovation that is supporting the new normal.

Launch video for the SmartrFit sourcing tool.

Following our recent launch session focusing on 'Incomes', please join us for the 2nd SmartrCriteria "Hot Topics” session where 3 lender partners will interrogate certain criteria items. This month's topic is 'Property'.

The session is designed to keep you up to date on changes surrounding property to help support your conversations with customers.

Our Mortgage Club host Stephen Mone will be joined by:
Eloise Hall- Kensington Mortgages
Paul Lewis - Mansfield Building Society
Paul Kane - NatWest

Join Steve Nobes, Head of Network and Club Relationships at Smartr 365 for an upcoming breakfast briefing covering 'Navigating the issues brokers are facing'.

This session will cover both the challenges and opportunities out there in the market, and how technology can lighten the load and pave the way for improved business performance.

In this session, we discuss what life is like at a Challenger Bank, and what the future holds.

Having faced some well documented challenges, and then dealing with the impact of Covid19, Metro Bank have had a lot to deal with, yet they have remained open for business, and even lending at 90% LTV.

We hear from Charlie Morley, Director of Mortgage Distribution at Metro Bank who gives his insight as to how Metro Bank have coped through the pandemic, and what we can expect from them going forward.

After the huge success of our 4 week BTL training programme in the summer, L&G are proud to offer you a 5th and final BONUS Edition, using our wider unique L&G Group position to look at the BTL market holistically.

Zara Bray, L&G Key Relationship Manager will be joined again by Roger Morris, Group Distribution Director at Kent Reliance who will give his perspective of the market as a landlord.

Together with our colleagues, Stephen Fallon (Market Development Manager, L&G Retail Protection) and James Gittins (Market Development Manager, GI Distribution) we’ll provide practical information, products and ideas to help our members maximise opportunities with landlords and tenants including a broader look at the current landscape.

Danny Belton, Head of Lender Relationships, L&G Mortgage Club, will host a session, in conjunction with Experian, that will look at Open Banking, the challenges, and how we can move forward in a post Covid19 environment where technology is playing a more prominent. Rob Mathie and Rob Haslingden from Experian will provide a presentation, and some thoughts for consideration and discussion.

Vida Homeloans have recently made a welcome return to the specialist lending market.

With a new CEO in place and a new vision, find out what’s in store for Vida Homeloans’s future now they are back open for business.

Join Louisa Sedgwick, Managing Director Mortgages, in conversation with Danny Belton, Head of Lender Relationships from the Legal & General Mortgage Club, as she discusses what Vida Homeloans have been up to for the past few months, and what the new future Vida will look like. Hot topics touched upon include payment holidays, short notice product pulls, furlough and collaboration between advisers & lenders, and their new chatbot, Milo.

It certainly feels like rush hour out there for advisers at the moment and just like when roads get busy, a quick search in your sat nav can suggest alternative safe and quick routes - Legal and General Mortgage Clubs FREE criteria sourcing tool ‘SmartrCrtiteria’ can really help you navigate your customers on the correct route to securing their mortgage needs!

To support you further, we would like to invite you to join the first SmartrCriteria "Hot Topics” session where 3 lender partners and an L&G Mortgage Club Host will interrogate certain criteria items.

The first topic we have chosen to explore is 'Incomes'.

It will be a Q&A session covering additional incomes, furloughed incomes, unusual incomes etc and a real opportunity to hear from the various lenders thoughts and views on how they are treating incomes and why.

The session is designed to keep you up to date on changes surrounding incomes to help support your conversations with customers.

We will be joined by:
• Chris Blewitt - Darlington Building Society
• Iain Cunningham - Accord Mortgages
• Nathan Goodridge - Kent Reliance for Intermediaries

The session focuses on the introduction of restrictions to income tax relief on 6th April 2017 which has significantly impacted landlords and the profitability of their portfolios.

Prior to April 2017, landlords had been able to deduct 100% of their home finance costs from their rental income to calculate the taxable rental profit. These restrictions have been gradually phased in and now, tax year (2020/21), there is no allowable deduction for finance costs at all.

In this session we will outline each tax that landlords need to be aware of prior to purchasing, transferring into a company structure or selling an investment property. This includes the capital gains tax liabilities of incorporating and the implications of buying or transferring property for stamp duty land tax and inheritance tax.

While brokers should not be giving tax advice to their clients, it’s important that they too, are aware of the tax implications for their landlord clients.

Over the last few months’ the mortgage market has seen more changes than at any time in the last decade and changes which have occurred at a pace probably never seen before.

During our presentation we will be taking a look at the situation within the BTL market and how it looked pre-covid, the impact lockdown had on the market and the current state of the market. We will also illustrate just how important a mortgage brokers role is within the BTL market.

We will then demonstrate how The Mortgage Lender can assist you and your clients whether they are individuals, limited companies or ex-pats. Our proposition covers a wide range of options so whether you are looking for:

• Products for loans over £500k
• Products for portfolio landlords
• Free valuations, cashback, or free legals

We have the solution for you

In a session that’s not to be missed, the lender experts at One Savings Bank presenting on behalf of the Precise Mortgages brand, discuss the New Build landscape, the challenges it has and will face due to the COVID crisis and what the future holds for this segment of the market.

Adrian Moloney, Group Director of Sales, leads the discussion, asking the team a wide range of questions to open up how and why One Savings Bank Group and its brands, Precise Mortgages and Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, are in a position to help lead the way with its recovery. Adrian is joined by:

• Neil Richardson MRICS, Group Real Estate Strategy Director
• Dawn Mirfin, Group Underwriting Director
• Colin Barrett, Group Mortgage Proposition Director

Following on from our recent popular webinar on the topic, Danny Belton hosts a follow-up panel to look at what’s changed in the interim for specialist lending across the market, and what its future is shaping up to look like

Guests Panelists:
· Alan Cleary – Group Managing Director, OneSavings Bank
· Hans Geberbauer – Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Homeloans
· Keith Street – Chief Commercial Officer & Director, The Mortgage Lender


Once registered, if you’re not an existing adviser member of the L&G Mortgage Club, we’ll be in touch after this conference to provide you with further information about the Club in general. Please let us know if you would prefer not to be contacted.

The pace of technological change across the industry has been arguably slow. Join Clare Beardmore and a group of tech panelists as they discuss whether the Covid-19 situation has forced the industry to connect digitally to meet consumer demand?

Guest Panelists:
· James Tucker - Chief Executive Officer, Twenty7Tec
· Jonathan Evans - UK Business Development Manager, Digidentity
· Miles Robinson - VP Sales & Operations, Trussle


Once registered, if you’re not an existing adviser member of the L&G Mortgage Club, we’ll be in touch after this conference to provide you with further information about the Club in general. Please let us know if you would prefer not to be contacted.