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Fast, reliable and not expensive mortgage adviser, solocitor and private surveyor?

Can anyone please recommend those three professionals in north-west of London? Thank you.

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  • herbiesjp
    herbiesjp Posts: 8,499 Forumite
    Can you not ask friends or family for suggestions on any of those?
    I am a Mortgage Adviser
    You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.
  • QQQ
    QQQ Posts: 392 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    herbiesjp wrote: »
    Can you not ask friends or family for suggestions on any of those?

    Unfortunately my family and most of friends are in another country.
  • VIGILANT22
    VIGILANT22 Posts: 2,516 Forumite
    maybe someone at work?
  • QQQ
    QQQ Posts: 392 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Is there any sort of tripadviser.com or ratedpeople.com or goodgaragescheme.com website for mortgage advisers, solocitors and surveyors?
  • happybroker
    happybroker Posts: 1,301 Forumite
    VIGILANT22 wrote: »

    this is a resource though they will actively push an enquiry toward a firm that pays them (according to the marketing call I received from them the other week) and they carry out no checks other than FSA registration.

    To be fair you may aswell use the yellow pages.
    Happily an ex mortgage broker!
  • VIGILANT22
    VIGILANT22 Posts: 2,516 Forumite
    If this is correct, it is disappointing...
  • Dan_1976
    Dan_1976 Posts: 943 Forumite
    But not surprising
    "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
    "How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?" Woody Allen

    Debt Apr 2010 £0
  • happybroker
    happybroker Posts: 1,301 Forumite
    certainly the name is misleading IMHO
    Happily an ex mortgage broker!
  • It is correct - and is very much in common with all 'directories' i.e some level of free inclusion but every effort to sell enhanced/priority display, selected leads etc.

    Whenever your helpful whole market review site introduces you to a recommended broker (or any other product provider) selected to best meet you needs it as also usually selling that introduction to the highest bidder at that time for an enquiry of your specification. The only selectivity - in most cases - in the case of mortgage brokers / financial advisers is that they hold FSA registration (as happybroker already stated).

    A few sites such as freeindex.com and qualitydirectory.co.uk use only customer review to prioritise their dispaly (but they do not cover every provider - many have not registered - and reviews can, of course, be manipulated.

    Personnel reference is still the ebst guide - and one brokers (and the other professions you mention) depend on heavily.
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