West One Loans doubles salesforce to support ambitious growth strategy

By Bridging Loan Directory 5th September 2017

West One Loans, a leading specialist property finance lender, has today announced the doubling of its salesforce, with the addition of two new Business Development Managers and the expansion of its Broker Support team.

The lender, who recently added long-term lending of second charge mortgages to its core suite of market-leading short-term bridging finance products, is expanding its national coverage as part of ambitious growth plans. This includes growing its core bridging business, as well as building its second charge mortgages and future new lending streams.

These appointments mean that West One’s sales team – including its broker support team – has doubled in size, and the moves feed into the company’s plans to strengthen and develop its presence across the UK. John Steel, who joins from specialist lender Together, will cover new business development in the North of England & Scotland; Matthew Watson, who has transferred from West One’s parent company, Enra Group, will take responsibility for the South Coast and South West. In addition, Lauren Snee and Laura Hollis will expand back office support for West One’s brokers, and will support newly-promoted Broker Sales Manager, Danny Scoltock.

Today’s news comes just two months after West One reported a record month, lending £62m in June 2017. The company has enjoyed strong growth at a time when the wider bridging market has been showing moderate expansion, resulting in increased market share within the bridging sector.

Marie Grundy, pictured, Sales Director for West One said:

“This strengthening of our sales organisation is a critical component of our growth strategy and ensures that we not only have nationwide coverage of our key broker partners, but also the back office bench-strength to give them the service they expect from an agile business like West One.

I’m delighted to welcome John, who brings over 10 years’ experience in the mortgage industry including in specialist lending, to represent us in the north of the UK, as well as Matt who knows our Group inside-out, to consolidate our presence in the south coast and south west. Congratulations are also due to Danny Scoltock, whose well-earned promotion will ensure we build a responsive, flexible support team that keeps our brokers at the heart of our business”.