Just Mortgages becomes number one broker at Openwork for lending, protection and GI
18 April 2019
Paul Shearman, Openwork’s proposition director - mortgages, protection and general insurance, has declared that Just Mortgages is now Openwork’s number one broker in the network across all three indices: lending volumes, protection and general insurance sales.
Just Mortgages joined the Openwork network three years ago at which point Openwork’s business case predicted that the brokerage would be carrying out £1billion of lending at this point. Just Mortgages has more than smashed this prediction however as last year it placed £2.4billion of lending, almost two and a half times the predicted amount.
The pronouncements came at Just Mortgages conference for its employed brokers last week, held at the prestigious Five Lakes Hotel in Colchester with over 250 attendees including all 170 employed brokers and 19 different lender sponsors including NatWest, Nationwide, Barclays and Principality who all either won, or were shortlisted for awards voted for by the Just Mortgages brokers.
Not only are the numbers there but Just Mortgage was also the number one large firm in Openwork from a quality perspective too.
John Phillips, group operations director for Just Mortgages and Spicerhaart said, “The information from Paul Shearman is a great validation of everything that we are doing at Just Mortgages and the high level that our brokers work to. In what is largely a static market we have increased our lending by 40% and our profits by 62% - but most importantly of all, this has been without compromising on the quality of the mortgage business that we place.
“We expect to increase our volumes still further when Openwork provides us with the authorisation to advise on equity release at the end of this quarter.”
Much of the growth of Just Mortgages is due to the significant number of mortgage brokers looking to join either the employed or self-employed divisions of Just Mortgages.
The self-employed division of Just Mortgages will be holding its own conference at The Belfry in the Midlands on the 4th June, open to all self-employed brokers in Just Mortgages and those looking to join. Anyone looking to attend can contact Just Mortgages by email at: talent@justmortgages.co.uk or call 02922 401485.
