The Legal & General Mortgage Club Awards recognise lender activity over the last 12 months and were voted for by member mortgage brokers, of which there are over 8,000, in March this year. Mortgage Club lenders were rated against a series of criteria including products, service, sales and marketing as well as the best lender for intermediaries. The Mortgage Club celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.
The winning lenders were:
• Best Lender for Intermediaries – Halifax Intermediaries
• Best Lender for Service – BM Solutions
• Best Lender for Sales & Marketing – Nationwide for Intermediaries
• Best Lender for Mainstream Purchase Products – Halifax Intermediaries
• Best Lender for Mainstream Remortgage Products – Abbey for Intermediaries
• Best Lender for Buy to Let Products – BM Solutions
• Best Lender for Offset Products – Woolwich mortgages from Barclays
• Best Lender for Existing Customers (post completion) – Halifax Intermediaries
• Best Overall Lender – Halifax Intermediaries
Doreen Kerr from Nationwide for Intermediaries was named Business Development Manager of the Year.
Ben Thompson, director of mortgages at Legal & General, said: “Now in its tenth year, our Mortgage Club Awards have become one of the key events on the annual calendar recognising the best that lenders have to offer. 2010 is also a key milestone for us at it is our fifteen year ‘anniversary’.”
In addition to the awards for lenders, awards were presented to members of the Legal & General Mortgage Club to recognise their performance in the mortgage market during the last year.
The winners were:
• Top Protection and GI Producer – Carrington Carr Home Finance
• Fastest Growing Mortgage DA Business – Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions
• Top Mortgage AR Business in the South – Kinleigh Financial Services
• Top Mortgage AR Business in the North – Mortgage Talk
• Top Overall Mortgage Business – Mortgage Advice Bureau
All results for the awards are processed by an independent market research company, which means that they truly represent the views of brokers in the UK mortgage market today.
