Stephen Dickinson

We were straight into working from home with lockdown so it was a very strange time to start, however, because my own experience in trying to get a mortgage was a painful one, I was determined to succeed with it. The first time my wife and I looked at purchasing a home we found it very difficult, we had to get a lot of help from parents, I couldn’t even go on the mortgage to start with, it was that difficult. So, I didn’t want first time buyers, or self-employed people like myself to go through the same difficulties that I did. I wanted to specialise in helping self-employed people, sole traders, business owners and entrepreneurs to be able to obtain property finance. We can help anyone get a mortgage; however we specialise in helping the self-employed etc.

I’m very much about the work/life balance, it’s something I like to encourage within my business, and that flows through to my employees as well – both of our other brokers are Mums, so we all fit in working with picking up the kids from school, it’s very important to me.

We have offices in Sevenoaks and Maidstone but have clients all over the UK, I set the business up whilst in lockdown so working remotely and over Zoom etc has been an advantage for us as we didn’t have to adapt into it, it allows us to help anyone in the UK as well as our local areas.

We’ve just taken on two new advisors, Karen and Gemma who is an apprentice, doing her qualifications, and our objective is to help more people. My vision is to help 10,000 people get their new homes or invest in property, the only way we’ll be able to do that is by growing as a business. My ethos with people coming into the company is that they don’t need to be experienced mortgage brokers, we will train them up and coach them into the right way to advise people and gain their qualifications. I’m looking to grow the team so we can help more and more people with their mortgages and property finance.”