Just Mortgages has launched a self-employed division with the appointment of Countrywide director Carl Parker.
Just Mortgages has launched a self-employed division with the appointment of Countrywide director Carl Parker.
The division, which will be live from 6 March, will cater for self-employed brokers by offering leads, training and compliance support and promises of high procuration fees.
Parker, who will be the head of the divison, has spent 23 years at Countrywide where he was national financial services director.
He said: “Just Mortgages self-employed division will help people who want to take the first steps to being self-employed and running their own mortgage and protection businesses.
“We will help brokers to set up their own businesses, ensure they have robust plans in place and help them to find and develop business.
“We will also pay some of the best procuration fees in the market to ensure that they are well rewarded for what they do."
Each self-employed broker will operate as an appointed representative of Openwork but Just Mortgages will offer day-to-day support.
People making the move from employed to self-employed will be shown how to set up their own business and how to create relationships with potential introducers and others including solicitors and estate agents.
They will receive guidance in setting up a marketing and business plan and Just Mortgages said brokers may have the opportunity to work from one of the Spicer Haart estate agency branches.
Just Mortgages has targetted growing its self-employed division to 100 broker firms in the first two years.
Five brokers within Just Mortgages are set to join the new division.
John Phillips, group operations director of Spicer Haart and Just Mortgages, said: “We are launching this new division to provide career progression opportunities to our mortgage brokers and Carl Parker is exactly the right person to lead this for it to develop and grow.
“It will also provide an exciting and supportive place to work for other mortgage advisers who have their own firms.
“Often when someone has worked as an employed mortgage broker for some time it is natural that they look for new opportunities and this new division provides them with the opportunity to move on without the need to leave the Spicer Haart group.”
