AToM - like Dr Who’s Tardis
I AM delighted to commence this week’s column with the fantastic news that AToM has received a national mortgage lender award!
We have been awarded ‘Best Overall Mortgage Packager 2011’ by the lender GE Money Home Lending.
It’s rare for lenders to issue awards, so this is really special and great recognition.
We have a super team at AToM and this award is real credit to the hard work the staff have put in during the recent tough market conditions.
As a Mortgage Packager, not only do we work with the general public, but nationally too with many Accountants,
Mortgage Brokers, Independent Financial Advisers and Estate Agents.
With over 10,000 registered introducers on our databases, lenders use AToM to offer their mortgage products seeking quick distribution and marketing to all of the above.
This often means that we see exclusive deals, new lenders and product innovations, ahead of the general marketplace.
As a Mortgage Packager, we also collate information for the lenders, obtain employer or accountant references, instruct valuations, obtain mortgage offers and in some cases go right through to requesting funds and instructing completions.
Some of these lenders (such as GE Money) will work through limited distributions, enabling them to control their business volumes.
In other words, it’s up to AToM to identify the cases that may, or may not, fit the lenders criteria quickly
and direct them accordingly.
As a result, lenders may not need to employ as many staff to man the phones or underwrite cases.
Thus containing their costs.
Others will approach AToM to pilot schemes and iron out any potential system issues before opening the products to the general mass mortgage market. Or to just use our experience and market knowledge to highlight product gaps in the market which the lender can then explore further, if the funding is available!
So in short, we are a little bit like Doctor Who’s Tardis. The AToM shop front opens onto a business which has much, much more going on behind the scenes!
Dale Jannels - Director AToM Ltd
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