The Stonebridge mortgage and protection network arranged a record £13.5bn home loans last year, which also saw strong insurance gains.
This result is up from £12.4bn in 2023, with chief executive Rob Clifford adding that advisers completed 8% more loans by case count at the firm’s annual conference in Birmingham.
The network’s best month came in December, when it handled £1.32bn of lending.
It said that 44% of cases last year were for house purchases, up from 26%, buy-to-let made up 13% of volumes.
Product transfers made up 31% of cases in 2024, down from 40% the year before.
Brokers also arranged a record number of home insurance policies, rising 17.4% year-on-year. General insurance policies were also up 10%.
The network added 93 new advice businesses over the period, taking its total number of member firms to 658.
Clifford said: “Our member firms are now doing business with around 100,000 customers a year, arranging more than £13.5bn of mortgages in 2024 alone.”
“One of the highlights of 2024 for me has been the enormous increase in the amount of protection written by our advisers, with 17% more clients getting advice from us and choosing hugely important protection policies, thereby protecting thousands more clients and delivering better consumer outcomes.”
