Just Mortgages has welcomed 48 new advisers to its thriving self-employed division in Q1, with ambitions to add 200 by the end of the year.

The new brokers join from all over the country and means the division is fast approaching 500 self-employed advisers, with Just Mortgages on track to maintain similar levels of recruitment throughout the rest of the year. Including employed, the brokerage has more than 650 advisers across the country.

Carl Parker (pictured), national director of Just Mortgages said: “It’s fantastic to see such strong recruitment levels and sustained demand for self-employed, especially given everything that has happened in the last nine months or so. It’s a real testament to the infrastructure and support package we put around all our self-employed advisers to ensure they can make a real success of it.

“2023 has so far been a transformative year for the division with some really experienced hires and a whole new structure designed to not only better support our brokers, but provide the roadmap to reach 1,000 advisers. Add in talented new adviser blood and its certainly an exciting time to be a part of Just Mortgages.

“In the current climate, advisers need to be alive to opportunities beyond just mortgage and protection. Expanding licence options not only allows firms to win more business, but deliver a real competitive advantage in their region. For those with the ambition and motivation, Just Mortgages is able to support, both with in-house expertise and through valuable events such as the Lender Fayre.”