It's good to Mortgage Talk

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Rotherham-based mortgage broker Mortgage Talk recently won the award for fastest-growing business partner at the Legal & General Mortgage Club Awards. Mortgage Talk partner, Peter Birch, talks to Paul Robertson about the company's rise to success

What is Mortgage Talk's background? The two partners in Mortgage Talk, Steve Mansfield and myself, started the business in 1994. I was an estate agent and had been one for nearly all my working life and Steve worked in financial services. We recognised estate agents were not very efficient in financial services, especially in light of the new regulations coming in. Mortgage Talk gives estate agents the opportunity to concentrate on house sales, while still giving them a financial service arm within their company and, in our opinion, a more professionally run business. Last year w...

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