A Melbourne-based mortgage dealer has launched The Brokers Bible – a web based membership platform designed to help and empower mortgage brokers in Australia.

Accessible now with additional expansions anticipated in 2024, the mortgage platform affords an enormous library of coverage and lender info, instruments, and sources, offering help and added worth to mortgage broking companies throughout Australia.

“This platform serves as a priceless supply of reality for brokers in any respect phases of their careers,” mortgage dealer Katherine Persoglia (pictured above) stated throughout a latest podcast with AB Discuss.

“Up to date each day with new content material, The Brokers Bible goals to avoid wasting brokers time, improve their data, and allow them to offer distinctive service to their shoppers.”

Property Earlier than Prada: Persoglia’s concentrate on empowering ladies

From a younger age, property and finance held a particular place in Persoglia’s coronary heart.

At 19, she grew to become a home-owner, sparking a ardour that will information her profession path. In 2002, she turned this ardour right into a actuality, beginning her personal mortgage franchise.

5 years in the past, a shift occurred when Persoglia noticed a rising development of immediate gratification and fleeting materialism in social media tradition. This ignited a brand new mission: empowering ladies by monetary schooling.

By way of her brokerage, Property Earlier than Prada, Persoglia shifted away from merely facilitating mortgages, as an alternative specializing in educating ladies about making sensible monetary decisions.

She inspired them to prioritise investments like property over fleeting traits, reminding them, “you’ll be able to nonetheless make investments and put on Prada, however you’ll want to get your priorities straight”.

Her efforts have been transformative, guiding lots of of ladies in the direction of monetary stability and independence by knowledgeable property possession.

Now, armed with invaluable insights into ladies’s monetary wants and aspirations, Persoglia is returning her focus to the broader broking trade, able to contribute to its development and guarantee brokers have the instruments to assist others attain a safe future.

“There is a massive alternative for brokers to be a task mannequin and assist to mentor others in the neighborhood in order that they’ll make some good monetary selections, particularly after they’re youthful.”

The Brokers Bible: Mortgage device designed to scale back workload

With over twenty years’ expertise as a mortgage dealer, Persoglia is aware of firsthand the ever-increasing burden of compliance and paperwork.

“We’d like compliance, however the extra work concerned in placing collectively an software is in depth,” Persoglia stated. “As we scale our companies, we put on so many hats – we’re brokers, enterprise house owners, HR personnel, accountants, entrepreneurs, and it may be overwhelming.”

Recognising the dear useful resource of time, Persoglia, juggling her personal enterprise, group, and private life, realised one thing needed to give. This realisation led to the start of The Brokers Bible: a platform designed to deal with the key time-consuming duties for brokers.

Particularly, it tackles the time spent researching lender insurance policies and contacting BDMs to seek out the best match for every consumer’s state of affairs.

“I wished to fill that hole and supply a trusted, dependable, and correct device that is not solely priceless to brokers but additionally their help groups,” Persoglia stated. The Brokers Bible already accommodates coverage info for greater than 100 residential lenders, together with completely different situations.

“Mainly, you’ll be able to go in and sort in a search phrase and it’ll convey up a plethora of lenders which have an urge for food for that individual coverage,” Persoglia stated.

Not like different platforms that may convey up coverage info no matter whether or not the lender will do it or not, The Brokers Bible solely shows info that the lender will settle for in that state of affairs.

“We minimize by the mountains of knowledge and ship correct, lender-specific leads to seconds,” Persoglia stated. “Our group updates this information each day, eliminating the necessity so that you can sift by pages of knowledge or waste time on telephone calls with BDMs and hotlines.”

What does The Brokers Bible have in retailer for 2024?

Whereas the platform’s preliminary focus is on residential loans, which was launched on October 31, Persoglia hopes to broaden it throughout industrial enterprise belongings, solicitor funds, non-public lending, and growth funding in 2024.

“We wish to guarantee we nail this platform first,” stated Persoglia. “The preliminary emphasis is on getting residential proper, after which we’ll broaden to incorporate these different funding varieties.”

Persoglia stated the method had already begun to create a brief instructional for every coverage in The Brokers Bible.

The movies are designed to help and information brokers, CSMs, and help employees, Persoglia stated. 

“Every video is concise, lasting round 20 to 30 seconds, offering important info for a specific state of affairs. This extra useful resource is meant to make sure that customers are outfitted with the best data earlier than submitting a mortgage software to the financial institution.”

To listen to extra about The Brokers Bible and the extra sources it supplies brokers, click on right here to take heed to the total interview with Katherine Persoglia on AB Discuss.