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Aussie defies market doom with national franchise
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3 April 2008
Australia’s leading mortgage broker, Aussie, is defying the current market doom in the lending market with the acceleration of its franchise and recruitment program across city and regional areas of Australia.
The group announced today the opening of its 25th retail shopfront and ACT head office in Canberra, with another five outlets to be rolled out over the next month, while also ramping up its recruitment program to attract specialist mortgage advisers and also franchisees.
With the offer of attractive commission rates and strong growth prospects, new mortgage advisers with Aussie can leverage the group’s market leading brand, state of the art technology, marketing campaigns and broad suite of home loans, plus the Aussie MasterCard and new car and personal loans.
Despite the current market volatility, Aussie continues to experience strong growth in lending volumes, with an average of about $1 billion a month worth of home loans processed over the last six months by the group’s 500 mortgage advisers.
Chairman of Aussie, Mr John Symond said, "We are aggressively expanding in this environment because from adversity we are seeing opportunity to hire good staff and open Aussie Shops, located in regional and city centres.
“We welcome potential mortgage advisers who may or may not have a financial services backgrounds, especially those who are working with one of the non-banks which have fallen on hard times”, he added.
Mr Symond said that there had been a doubling of re-finance enquiries over the last month to about 40 per cent of all calls and visits to Aussie Shops, providing Aussie with an opportunity to find customers a new, less expensive home loan from its panel of 17 lenders.
Aussie’s mortgage advisers, all of whom are accredited with the leading industry body, the Mortgage Finance Association of Australia (MFAA), use the company’s proprietary Mortgage Explorer software tool that selects the best home loan to suit the individual needs of customers.
Aussie Home Loans has provided loans to more than 220,000 customers with a loan portfolio worth more than $20 billion, with the Aussie Shops now a very popular destination for customers, while the mortgage advisers continue to visit customers at their home or office, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Aussie Shops offer a complete home finance service, a huge selection of competitively priced home loans and advice for customers about how to save thousands of dollars off their home loans.
Mr Symond concluded, “Our Aussie Shops and recruitment drive are just two examples of how Aussie is responding to the current market conditions and we expect to come out of the current problems as a stronger, more dynamic organisation offering great customer service and a wide range of financial products, covering home loans, personal and car loans and the Aussie MasterCard”.
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