AMBER HOMELOANS SELLS £40 MILLION MORTGAGE PORTFOLIO TO the DERBYSHIRE
Skipton Mortgages Limited, which is part of the Amber
Homeloans Group (Amber), has today announced the sale of a 600 strong mortgage
portfolio valued at almost £40 million to Derbyshire Home Loans Limited.
Amber, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Skipton
Building Society, is a mortgage lender in the specialist market, focusing
its lending activities into specific niche areas including light/medium adverse,
self certification, 100% loans and buy to let mortgages. In addition, the company sells and purchases bulk mortgage portfolios, an area in which the management team have gained extensive experience over a number of years.
Gordon Jolly, Managing Director of Amber Homeloans Limited,
said, "Portfolio sales are an integral part of Amber's strategy as a
creator and trader of mortgage assets and we are very pleased to have worked
with the Derbyshire on this transaction. This is the first portfolio sale
we have made to the Derbyshire and we very much hope this relationship will
continue into the future."