WHY ENTER

Celebrating the stars of the UK mortgage industry!

The Mortgage Strategy Awards brings together the finest of the UK Mortgage industry and celebrates the hard work and success of firms and individuals in the market. Widely recognised as the ‘Oscars’ of the mortgage industry, the accolades are not awarded lightly. The stringent and transparent entry and judging processes ensure that the awards are well-deserved by recipients and highly valued.

Enter the 2025 Mortgage Strategy Awards to:

  • Profile your business and gain recognition from your peers and the industry
  • Build customer trust to boost sales
  • Showcase your business’ excellence
  • Validate achievement

Each stage of the Mortgage Strategy Awards entry process is free and couldn't be simpler but if you have any questions or need more information, please contact Charlotte Covey-Crump on +44 (0) 20 8075 8168 or at charlotte.coveycrump@emap.com.

ENTRY PROCESS

If you work within the UK mortgage industry, you are eligible to self-nominate, have your say and cast your vote. The nominations and judging process has been further improved to ensure that only the very best in the business are recognised as Mortgage Strategy award winners. The details of this complex process are outlined below.

Please ensure you read our Entry Rules & Guidelines and FAQs before you get started.

STAGE 1:  SELF-NOMINATIONS


Firms from within the UK mortgage industry are invited to put themselves forward for consideration in the industry vote by completing a short form.

Please note: only one self-nomination per company is required.

Subject to approval from the Mortgage Strategy  editorial team, firms will be taken forward to the next stage - the industry vote.

Deadline Wednesday 23 October 2024.

STAGE 2: INDUSTRY VOTE


The entire UK mortgage industry is given the opportunity to have their say and cast their vote for their top firms of 2024 or nominate any firms not already on the list.

Voters can have their say in as many categories as they’d like.

Companies are welcome to vote for themselves but only one internal vote per company will be counted towards the final total.

STAGE 3: ENTRY FORMS


All votes are thoroughly reviewed by the Mortgage Strategy editorial team.

The firms with the highest number of votes in each category are selected to become our longlist.

Longlisted firms are then invited to submit entry forms.

STAGE 4: JUDGING


Our expert panels of industry judges review all entry forms, and their scores and comments create our shortlist. 

Shortlisted brokers and distributors are then invited to attend a short video interview with our judges. Interview times will be communicated in advance. 

Shortlisted lender and provider entries are debated by an industry panel who will decide the winners.

ENTRY FAQs 

Hopefully you'll find an answer to your question below. If not, please contact Charlotte Covey-Crump on 0208 075 8168 or email charlotte.coveycrump@emap.com .


SELF-NOMINATION FAQs

All self-nominations must be submitted by 11:55pm on Wednesday 23 October in order to be included in the next stage of the process, the industry vote.

To submit your self-nomination, please follow the steps below:

  1. Visit the Award categories page and select the relevant category/ies
  2. Log in to an existing account / create an account. Please note you only need to create a new account if you haven't previously entered or booked a table to attend the Awards.
  3. You will then be taken to the basket page (step 1). The category/ies that you have selected will appear under the ‘Awards Nomination’ heading and you can complete the required information (company name and a short supporting statement).
  4. You can then ‘Continue’ at the bottom of the page to proceed through the basket process.
  5. You will receive a confirmation email from the system once your self-nomination has been successfully submitted.

If you have entered the Awards previously, you will be able to use this account to self-nominate. If this is your first time entering, you will need to create an account.

To create your account, first visit the Award categories page and select the category/ies that you would like to self-nominate into either by clicking the 'Self-Nominate Now' button, or by using the tick boxes to select multiple categories and then clicking 'process' in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.

You can self-nominate in as many categories as you'd like. To do so, visit the Award categories page, and use the tick boxes in the top right hand corner of each category box to select the categories you'd like to self-nominate into. You will then be asked to login to an existing account / create an account, before being taken through to a basket page where you can complete the required information for each category and submit.

We ask all firms to submit a short supporting statement to summarise why they are putting themselves forward for the particular category, and with a brief company bio. This is to assist our editorial team when reviewing all self-nominations before putting them through to the public vote stage.

Supporting statements should be no more than 200 words.

No - only one self-nomination per company is required at this stage. All nominations will be reviewed by the Mortgage Strategy editorial team, and subject to their approval, will then be put forward at the industry voting stage in October 2024 .

Click on the person icon in the top right corner of the menu bar and enter the email address and password that you used when you first started your self-nomination. You will then be taken through to your dashboard and will be able to continue (up until the entry deadline).

Please contact Charlotte Covey-Crump at +44 (0) 20 8075 8168 or email charlotte.coveycrump@emap.com, and she will be able to help you with your nomination.