The first ever Secured Loans Awards has been hailed a resounding success by the industry, with lenders and brokers from all over the country attending the celebrated event in London last week.

250 of the industry’s finest professionals attended the first ever Secured Loans Awards at 8 Northumberland Avenue last Thursday night.  

The night was a huge success, celebrating everything the second charge market has achieved over the past year – and we at Loan Talk would like to congratulate all those that were nominated.

Philip George, Managing Director for Secured Lending, Shawbrook Bank, said: “Well done to Mo, Caron and the team for putting on a fantastic evening. The evening was a roaring success and it was great to see so many people from the secured loans industry come together once again, showing how far the industry has come and its resurgence in the market. We were also thrilled to have won four awards, something that we are incredibly proud of”.

Congratulations to the winners:

Best Secured Loans Newcomer 2013:
Winner: Masthaven Secured Loans

Best Adverse Secured Loan Product of the Year:
Winner: Blemain Finance  

Most Innovative Secured Loans Product of the Year:
Winner: Prestige Finance

Best Secured Loans Product Range:
Winner: Blemain Finance

Best Use of Technology in Secured Lending:
Winner: Y3S miLoan

Best Secured Loans Valuer of the Year:
Winner: Sonas Surveyors

BDM of the Year:
Winner: Maeve Ward – Shawbrook Bank

Secured Loans Personality of the Year:
Winner: Maeve Ward – Shawbrook Bank

Service Excellence Award:
Winner: Shawbrook Bank

Best Secured Loans Broker of the Year:
Winner: Norton Broker Services

Best Secured Distributor of the Year:
Winner: Colonial Secured Loans

Secured Loans Lender of the Year:
Winner: Shawbrook Bank

To mark the occasion, we’ve selected a number of tweets from various attendees that decorate the success of the evening.

V Loans (@VLoans) – “@LoanTalkNews great event last night! Thanks for all your efforts in putting the night together. Well done to all the nominees and winners.”

Masthaven Secured (@MasthavenLoans) – “We are all really proud and looking to live up to the award in 2014! Thanks to Mo, Caron and all at @LoanTalkNews for an incredible evening.”

Metropolis Surveyors (@Metropolis_surv) – “We had a great evening @LoanTalkNews awards. Congratulations to all who won and to the organisers. A brilliant event”

Tony Sutton (@tonysutton28) – “Excellent night at @LoanTalkNews awards. Congrats to all award winners, and thanks to @MoMulki & the team. #securedloans

This one from Monique at Norton is definitely our favourite!

Monique Furniss (@manicmon) - "@NortonBroker: #SecuredLoansAwards2013 @LoanTalkNews " Gave the award my bed and slept on a chair!"

On behalf of all of us at Loan Talk, we are incredibly thankful for all of your support, we hope you all had a wonderful night and see you again, hopefully, next year!