Openwork has added April Mortgages to its lending panel, giving advisers access to a range of longer-term fixed-rate products.
The lender offers five-year, 10-year and 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, including products available at up to 100% loan-to-value.
Its fixed rates reduce automatically as the loan-to-value falls during the mortgage term. The products also offer unlimited overpayments, no early repayment charges when customers move home or repay the mortgage from their own funds, and borrowing of up to seven times income.
Openwork advisers have access to more than 50 lenders across residential, buy-to-let and specialist finance.
The network facilitated £28 billion of mortgage lending in 2025, its highest annual total, representing an increase of 16% from the previous year. It helped more than 133,000 people to obtain a mortgage during the year.
Paul Shearman, mortgage and protection proposition director at The Openwork Partnership, said: “April Mortgages brings a fresh and innovative proposition to the market, offering a blend of certainty and flexibility that will appeal to a wide range of borrowers.
“Their proposition will be hugely well received by our advisers and builds on the other recent additions to the panel, which together further expand the breadth of lender choice available to our advisers and the clients they support.”
Mark Eaton, chief operating officer at April Mortgages, said: “We’re delighted to be partnering with The Openwork Partnership, one of the UK’s leading financial advice networks, as we continue to grow our distribution. April has built a reputation for challenging the conventions of the mortgage market and finding new ways to help borrowers.
“We’re giving advisors more ways to help clients where traditional lending can fall short. The Openwork Partnership has a strong reputation for delivering high-quality advice, and we’re excited to put our proposition in the hands of even more advisors and help more people buy, and keep, their home.”
Michael Brown, head of business development at April Mortgages, said: “The Openwork Partnership is a significant addition to April’s distribution and gives us a fantastic opportunity to introduce April to thousands more advisors across the UK. Our focus now is on making that access count.
“We want Openwork advisors to understand where April can make a real difference: whether that’s a client who needs stronger affordability, a first-time buyer struggling with the deposit hurdle, or simply a case where a more flexible approach could create a better outcome.”
