First broker on the list at every new estate

Sophie is an independent mortgage broker in Manchester. Most of her clients are first-time buyers. New housing estates sell fast, and each one brings hundreds of buyers who need a mortgage. The developers keep a list of brokers they recommend, and the first ones in get the work. Sophie usually hears about a new scheme when it is already half sold. With xMap Flows, Sophie built Warden. Every weekday at seven, Warden reads Manchester’s property news and keeps stories about new housing schemes, skips the ones she has seen, drafts a short note to each developer, and leaves it as a draft in her own Outlook. Last month Warden caught an estate of four hundred homes in Salford the morning its approval made the news. Sophie’s note reached the developer that day, and she was the first broker on their list. Eleven buyers from that scheme are now her clients. Sophie used to find new estates half sold. Now she’s there the day they’re approved.

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