The events took place across the UK and brought attendees face-to-face with lenders and providers to share new products and explore challenges and opportunities in the sector.
Feedback shows that brokers are already booking appointments based off the valuable information given by the lender line-up, which featured Together, Precise Mortgages, Shawbrook Bank, Masthaven, LendInvest, MT Finance and Teachers Building Society.
The events featured roundtable sessions in which lenders and attendees covered a range of topics related to specialist lending, including available products, regulatory issues and more.
SimplyBiz Director David Golder provided the keynote speech, covering the impact of the change in both consumer credit regulation and the introduction of the Mortgage Credit Directive from a compliance perspective.
Advisers say the Roadshow helped them to offer a comprehensive and informed service to their clients, as well as gaining valuable CII and CPD points.
The events are part of a wider set of educational roadshows for brokers which will cover a number of topics such as buy to let, retirement, and protection.
Laleta Bucktuar, Together, said:
“We were delighted to support the Specialist Lending Roadshow as a sponsor. They’ve been fantastic events – well attended, with a brilliant audience and some great conversations and opportunities.”
Paula Purdy, Shawbrook Bank, commented:
“The Specialist Lending Roadshows were very well attended in terms of both numbers and quality of delegates, who clearly wanted to be there and were interested and engaged in the sessions; one of the most positive events I’ve attended this year.”
Jamie Pritchard, Precise, added:
“An excellent event for us; more and more brokers need to engrain specialist lending in their day-to-day, so events like this add incremental value to their business by helping them actually understand specialist lending. It’s important to get involved – brokers should already know about the High Street lenders, but with the BTL changes and the Mortgage Credit Directive it’s important they know about the specialist lending market too.”
