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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 […]

Technology – accelerating the case for AR networks

Any wistful debate over whether things will get back to the way they were before COVID-19 is a complete waste of time. Those ‘things’ won’t! This is not the time to get teary-eyed over how wonderful it all was. The pre-COVID mortgage market was already dynamic and evolving. Still, the pandemic, along with all its […]

Resilience shining through – Shaun Almond, Managing Director

As most people who know me will say, I am glass half full person, who will always find the best in every situation. I admit that the current issues looked daunting, particularly as the lockdown took effect, but my natural optimism has not taken long to reassert itself. When there are elements which are outside […]