The Mortgage Lender has added Edinburgh-based master broker Thistle Finance to its distribution network.

Thistle Finance specialises in packaging complex residential mortgages, second charge loans, bridging, commercial and development finance.

Nathan Ellis-Calcott, Thistle Finance’s director of sales, said: “We’re delighted to partner with The Mortgage Lender. We specialise in the placement of non-standard, complex cases that are outside of the high street ‘vanilla’ space and we’ve been impressed with The Mortgage Lender’s common-sense approach to lending in this marketplace and challenging it, and themselves, to be more competitive.”

Pete Thomson, The Mortgage Lender’s sales and marketing director, added: “It’s great to announce that our distribution network is growing and welcome Thistle Finance on-board.

“We look forward to working with Thistle Finance and providing them with great products, second to none customer service and market leading prices, which they can pass on to their customers.”