Finding a broker on unbiased website

johndoe67812

Hi all
I’m doing research with a view to getting a 90% mortgage in summer to buy a property in the 200-220k range. Has anyone got recent experience of using a broker they found on the unbiased website.

thanks

K_S

@johndoe67812 I'm not on either lead-gen website, but have heard more positive feedback about vouchedfor than unbiased. To be clear, this is purely anecdotal and from brokers' viewpoints.

johndoe67812

K_S said:

@johndoe67812 I'm not on either lead-gen website, but have heard more positive feedback about vouchedfor than unbiased. To be clear, this is purely anecdotal and from brokers' viewpoints.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of vouchedfor.

dunstonh

Unbiased used to be an IFA directory.  However, it stopped being that many years ago. Now it is a lead generation site for restricted (not whole of market) and everyone else.   Most of the IFA firms I know no longer pay for an unbiased entry.

Google is probably one of the best nowadays.

primmer10590

I used unbiased and got a great broker, very happy

ACG

Unbiased is a company that promotes brokers who pay ahead of brokers who do not pay... Seems like false advertising to me but what do I know.

amnblog

Trustpilot has reviews of Brokers if that is what you want

johndoe67812

dunstonh said:

Unbiased used to be an IFA directory.  However, it stopped being that many years ago. Now it is a lead generation site for restricted (not whole of market) and everyone else.   Most of the IFA firms I know no longer pay for an unbiased entry.

Google is probably one of the best nowadays.

Probably a dumb question but how can I go about searching google or trustpilot for reviews.

ACG

go to google and type in mortgage brokers, you will then see the reviews on google. 
Go to trustpilot and go to the mortgage brokers section. 

dunstonh

johndoe67812 said:

dunstonh said:

Unbiased used to be an IFA directory.  However, it stopped being that many years ago. Now it is a lead generation site for restricted (not whole of market) and everyone else.   Most of the IFA firms I know no longer pay for an unbiased entry.

Google is probably one of the best nowadays.

Probably a dumb question but how can I go about searching google or trustpilot for reviews.

Why would you rely on reviews?   There are certain professions/industries where reviews do not seem to work.  Financial services as a whole is not very good as generally most firms do not push people to leave reviews (so they lack positive reviews) and only get the negative.  Most of the negative seem more to do with misunderstanding than doing anything wrong.   Saw one recently where a person left a bad review saying the firm wouldn't let them take their pension money out.  However, the person was under age 55 and isn't allowed to do that.  So, the review served no purpose.

There are some adviser firms that totally rely on business via vouchedfor or similar where they pester people to leave reviews just after they complete the initial service (when the person is likely to be at their happiest).   However, those review sites are expensive to be on.  One was taking 50% of the adviser payment for each successful lead they generated from them.   So, the adviser firms had to increase their fees to cover it.

You generally find the successful and good quality firms do not pay for any listings on review sites as they do not need to.  So, they can appear to be under the radar apart from local reputation and appearing on google searches.

K_S

johndoe67812 said:

dunstonh said:

Unbiased used to be an IFA directory.  However, it stopped being that many years ago. Now it is a lead generation site for restricted (not whole of market) and everyone else.   Most of the IFA firms I know no longer pay for an unbiased entry.

Google is probably one of the best nowadays.

Probably a dumb question but how can I go about searching google or trustpilot for reviews.

@johndoe67812 Here's the Trustpilot list for top-rated UK brokers https://uk.trustpilot.com/categories/mortgage_broker