The Week That Was

Activity Charts – Week 16 (13th April to 19th April 2021)

Afternoon all,

Well …. Yet more virtual and real life awards were handed out this week at the 2021 Oscars ceremony where the winners once again included Frances McDormand and Anthony Hopkins, and it was nice to see some good old fashioned red carpet glamour out on show!

Just don’t mention carpeting or any soft furnishings for that matter to the PM as Carrie’s expensive refurbishment of their apartment, inspired by interior designer Lulu Lytle, has caused an almighty hoo har at Number 10 and there are further scandals underfoot at Downing Street as the ousted Dominic Cummings continues to unleash a full gamut of sleaze allegations! < Gaffer ; ‘’Boris is lazy and complacent and he’s winged it thus far …. They are coming for im …..!‘’ > It was also a tough weekend for Harry Kane who lest you didn’t know , once won a trophy as an Arsenal junior! 😊

Back to the glamour, glitz and winners of our own Week 16 results where in spite of it being the tail end of the holiday season you still managed to secure a mighty £25,889,887 of lending across 101 cases.

Top of the charts was the ever “smouldering” Hollywood icon that is of course Ronald Walton who secured £2,750,729 of lending across 4 cases followed by “connoisseur” Paul Oglesby with £1,883,499 of lending across an amazing 9 cases and then the “always red carpet ready‘’ Spencer Havers with £1,728,497 of lending across 3 cases, one of which wins him this week’s “Big Buffed Barry” Award for his £1,138,499 deal with HSBC Intermediaries. < who btw, will now do your self-employed applicants in half the time that it takes to normally if Open Banking is deployed …look out for the upcoming webinar! >

Then striking a winner’s pose having achieved their case a day Awards this week were “007 stand in & now a 12 handicapped golfer” Mike Atkinson, Sarah Norman, Golf-Dad - Zak Abdul Karim, James Newton, the ever consistent Sean McGeough, Ricki Wenn and Michelle Barraclough.

On the lender side you secured the greatest number of deals this week with Santander totalling 12 for £3,333,805 of lending.

Protection – Week 16

Another entirely Oscar-worthy week on the protection side of the business with 47 deals completed of which Kevin Gronow secured a titanic 21 (!!!!!) while Rhys Forrest and Warren Middleton each secured 6.

Dominic Willett secured the highest policy amount this week for £1,000,000 with AIG and Colette Hall was runner up with her deal with L&G totalling £720,995.

On the provider side you secured the highest number of deals this week with L&G totalling 13.

Birthday’s and other Parish Notices

Many Happy Returns to Lorraine Page for tomorrow and Pawel Perry who celebrates on 2nd May.

Management Notices

Congratulations all on a great week, especially on the Protection side of the business, wherein our Welsh cousins have earned themselves a truly sumptuous evening out in Juniper Place, Swansea next week. Amazing stats once again.

But it’s encouraging also to see that so many others are now protecting their clients’ interests.

If you are reading this note on the Staff Intranet you will be doing so because Kerry’s earlier note pointed you in that direction! 😊 So well done …. All future weekly reports of this kind will go on the Intranet from now on, and I know that Walter is also looking to place more of his own content too on there as opposed to via email (which we accept, can be lost in the ether/go unread).

Talking of folk in a daze or snoozing , rooming arrangements for Marbs certainly won’t be on the Intranet ….! But these are now finalised and Kerry will be sending a memo on that shortly. Everybody pretty much got what they wanted (with the exception of the London broker who asked for a roof-top jacuzzi-suite with 5 of our lovely female brokers! 😊 ☹ 😊 !!!)

Finally, I wrote last week about the market having had a short lull. This was not unusual given what was a 10 year record-breaking quarter.

There remains a shortage of stock in places, but please don’t get too down-hearted if this is making life frustrating; the mortgage market all too often ‘’heals itself‘’ and self-regulates itself in a way which sees transaction levels return to their previous median.

And that’s demonstrated this week where we had several brokers registering up to 5 cases, whereas in the previous 2 weeks there were none. It always, always, comes back.

Best Wishes All,