Family take care of family. When Sam White set out to start Loan Market in 1995, what he wanted to achieve was simple ‘Customers need to make better decisions when it comes to money’. When you start digging into his past, he’s actually pretty similar to the average Joe. Quitting his first job at KFC because he didn’t want to work New Year’s Eve and being declined for his first home loan. The struggle was real! I wish I’d kept the decline letter!” he jokes. “It was about $150,000 and they said no. After that I went to a mortgage broker who ended up becoming one of our first employees and still works within the White Group today.” Loan Market has come a long way since it began. We like to step into the customers shoes and understand that everyone not only needs help with loans. We want to help customers borrow, protect, connect and grow. What about insurance, home connections and advice on financial planning? So bam! Now we have Home Now and Wealth Market to help you in these areas too. Even though Loan Market has its own little family of companies, it’s part of a bigger one The White Family Group which was started by Sam’s great grandfather. This includes
Australia’s largest real estate group, Ray White and even though the Group has grown since it was started, the White family is still running the show. Today Loan Market has 1,500 brokers across Australia and New Zealand and these brokers are comparing loans from a panel of over 30 lenders day in and day out, so they know their stuff! When the brokers are together, Sam describes it as ‘a family barbecue’ with strong family values and a feeling of mateship. Early on Sam made a decision to surround himself with the best in the business, which he describes as one of his ‘ah-ha moments’. “If you get the right people and they form the right relationships, then it works well,” he says. We have that combo down pact with Loan Market brokers settling over 26,965 loans last year for thousands of customers across Australia and New Zealand. Sam White doesn’t see Loan Market slowing down anytime soon. We are pumped and ready to save you some coin and help you achieve your goals, by helping you borrow, protect, connect and grow.
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