Housing market stays open for those in Tier 4
On Saturday, Boris Johnson announced that new Tier 4 rules would come into effect as of Sunday 20th December across London, the South East and the East of England. The government has since confirmed that the housing market will continue to operate across the UK, even in Tier 4. An announcement from Housing Secretary Robert […]
Building a Sustainable Advice Business By Improving Customer Retention
Your existing client database is your most powerful asset as there are so many opportunities that lie within it. Our research has shown consumers who haven’t had any subsequent contact with the adviser who arranged their mortgage are unlikely to go back to that source for further assistance when they need to remortgage. With individual […]
Over 1 Million Communications Distributed On Behalf of Member Firms in 2020, But Why Is it So Important?
In two weeks, HLP will have reached the milestone of sending out one million client newsletters in 2020, on behalf of our member ARs. This is part of HLP’s strategy, in cooperation with our members, to engage existing customers on a regular basis and strengthen the relationship between customer and adviser. Our research has shown […]
Smarter Facebook Marketing For Advisers
As the most visited social media site in the world, Facebook doesn’t need an introduction. Facebook has become a name with most adults using, sharing, engaging and even shopping with brands on Facebook each and every day. From an outside- in perspective, the financial services industry is pretty poor at using facebook to engage and […]
Customer Questions Are Best Answered by A Human Adviser
During the silly season for news back in July, the press took interest in a survey by online mortgage broker, Trussle, claiming that 3 out of 4 people questioned did not know what a remortgage was. We have to admit to being a little sceptical at the time, as to our way of thinking the […]
Great News as HLP Awarded Best National Network Partner By L&G Mortgage Club!
At the Legal & General Mortgage Club Awards 2020, held virtually, HL Partnership were confirmed as the Club’s Best National Network Partner. L&G Mortgage Club had invited a panel of respected industry experts to assess each nominee and give their vote for a winner. To help the judges, HLP submitted a report to highlight how […]
HLP Launches The First Stages of An Exciting New System Development
As you may already be aware, the first stage of the redevelopment of the website, has taken place. The first thing that will strike you is the fresh, clean look we have developed and which will be carried forward as we release more features, until we have a completely new updated members’ area and adviser […]
Astonishing Rise in Business Activity Levels As Production Increases by 32%
HL Partnership (HLP) has revealed that activity levels by members are 32% higher than in the first quarter of 2020 before the lockdown. In Q1 2020, HLP advisers were performing on average 3,100 searches a day but after lockdown this number dropped to 1,400 per day. The opening of the valuation market saw an increase […]
Cheapest is not necessarily best
Logic tells us that if two loaves of bread of the same quality are priced so that loaf A is cheaper than loaf B, then clearly loaf A is the one we should buy. Indisputable fact. We can make the same case in an infinite number of examples. The key considerations are that there be […]
Developing committed customer relationships
If you plotted the COVID-19 learning curve on a graph for our industry it would be nearly vertical. Although the conditions were different during the credit crunch twelve years ago, the industry has proved to be so much more adaptable in keeping the mortgage process going. Clearly, the advances in technology have had much to do […]