Westmarq has challenged mortgage lenders to move more of their valuation business away from the surveying industry's dominant players as it looks to establish itself as a major alternative in the market. Richard Sexton used the official launch of the former Legal & General Surveying...

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client has been introduced, but I think an opportunity is being missed if that is how we view the relationship. Advisers spend...