A thing that people usually miss out on when they don’t deal with a broker is the ‘unwritten’ criteria of banks or the market segmentation they seek. Anybody with a lot of money can get a loan almost anywhere, but if you aren’t in the Howard Hughes end of the market then you can find yourself refused by one lender and welcome by another but have no idea why.
In this episode Barry Clarke talks about why one lender in particular (and this is going to change soon) is doing the most for people who have the least.