First Mortgage Lender joins Open Property Data Association 

Buster Tolfree is currently Director of Mortgages at UTB and is responsible for the end-to-end mortgage journey at UTB across its Residential, BTL and Second Charge loan products.

UTB joining the Executive Committee is the first step for the OPDA in bringing mortgage lenders and intermediaries into the delivery of a digital, data-driven, home buying process. 

Maria Harris, Chair of OPDA said, “Announcing our first lender is an exciting and important milestone for the association. As we move towards upfront information becoming mandatory on property listings, ensuring that data is collected digitally and can be shared in a trust way with intermediaries and mortgage lenders will be critical for improving the whole process.

UTB’s approach to innovative thinking and the use of technology to create better experiences for their intermediaries and customers is well recognised across the industry so I’m delighted they’ve joined us at this pivotal time.”
 

Tolfree said, “UTB have a reputation as one of the market’s leading specialist banks, and as such we welcome enhancements that simplify the application process for our brokers and customers and help mitigate credit and commercial risk. Joining the OPDA, and being involved in opening up some of the traditional data-borders that have existed in the past, is therefore an easy decision to make.”