How our team helps you
Getting a mortgage can involve more than choosing a rate.
You may need help understanding what you can borrow, which lenders may suit your circumstances, what documents are needed, how to avoid delays and what happens after the application is submitted.
Our advisers and support team work together to help you:
- Understand your mortgage options clearly
- Compare suitable lenders and products
- Prepare your documents before applying
- Avoid lenders that may not fit your circumstances
- Manage the application process
- Liaise with lenders where needed
- Keep the process moving through to completion
- Feel supported from your first enquiry to the final stages
The aim is simple. We want your mortgage journey to feel clearer, more organised and less stressful.
What makes Your Mortgage Expert different?
We’re not a call centre and we’re not here to leave you to work everything out alone.
Your Mortgage Expert is a family run mortgage broker based in Salisbury, helping clients locally and across the UK. We combine clear advice, detailed lender knowledge and hands on support throughout the mortgage process.
Clients choose us because they want:
- Straightforward advice in plain English
- A team that takes time to understand your circumstances
- Support with both straightforward and more complex cases
- Help with paperwork, lender questions and next steps
- Advice by phone, video or face to face
- A relationship led service, not a transactional one
We know that getting a mortgage can feel stressful. Our job is to make it easier to understand, easier to manage and easier to move.
A MORTGAGE IS A LOAN SECURED AGAINST YOUR HOME. YOUR HOME MAY BE REPOSSESSED IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP REPAYMENTS ON YOUR MORTGAGE OR ANY OTHER DEBT SECURED ON IT.
There may be a fee for mortgage advice. The actual amount you pay will depend upon your circumstances. The fee is up to 1% but a typical fee is 0.3% of the amount borrowed.
Meet our mortgage advisers
Our advisers each bring different experience and specialist knowledge. Our overall aim is always the same: to help you understand your mortgage options clearly and move with confidence.
Whether you’re buying your first home, moving house, remortgaging, investing in property or dealing with more complex income, we’ll help match you with the suitable person in our friendly team.
You don’t need to know which adviser to choose before contacting us. Tell us what you need and we’re here to help.
Adam Nanson, Managing Director
Adam founded Your Mortgage Expert in 2015 after working in the mortgage and protection industry for many years.
As Managing Director, Adam oversees the business and continues to advise clients with more detailed mortgage needs. He is particularly experienced in contractor mortgages, self employed applications, complex buy to let purchases, self build mortgages and commercial mortgage enquiries.
Adam is often involved where a case needs careful lender matching, detailed criteria checks or a more strategic approach. This may include clients with multiple income streams, business ownership, property investment plans or borrowing that does not fit a standard lender route.
Adam’s role is to help you understand what may be possible, which lenders may be more suitable and how to move forward with confidence.
Adam can help with:
- Contractor mortgages
- Self employed mortgage advice
- Complex income cases
- Complex buy to let purchases
- Self build mortgages
- Commercial mortgage enquiries
- Specialist mortgage advice
- High Value mortgages
Adam enjoys building long term relationships with clients and seeing them return for future mortgages or recommend friends, family and colleagues.
Dan Allen, Mortgage Adviser
Dan is a Mortgage Adviser based at our Salisbury office and also supports clients across Andover, West Hampshire and the wider UK.
Dan is particularly experienced in helping portfolio landlords, self employed clients, complex mortgage cases and buy to let remortgage clients. He is a strong choice if your mortgage needs more detailed lender criteria checks, or if your income, property plans or borrowing structure are not completely straightforward.
Dan takes time to understand the full picture before making a recommendation. This can be especially valuable if you own more than one property, are growing a rental portfolio, have self employed income, or need advice on a specialist mortgage route.
His focus is on helping you save time, avoid unsuitable lenders and understand your options clearly before you apply.
Dan can help with:
- Portfolio landlord mortgages
- Buy to let remortgages
- Self employed mortgage advice
- Complex mortgage cases
- Specialist mortgage advice
- Landlord mortgage reviews
- Remortgage advice
Dan is known for his careful approach, strong attention to detail and commitment to finding a mortgage route that fits the client’s circumstances.
Dan Harris, Mortgage and Protection Adviser
Dan joined Your Mortgage Expert in 2021 and has a strong background in both mortgage and protection advice.
Dan advises clients on contractor mortgages, home mover mortgages, bad credit mortgage advice and first time buyer mortgages. He is also our resident specialist for protection advice, including life insurance, critical illness cover, income protection and wider family protection needs
This makes Dan a good adviser to speak to if you want to look at both the mortgage and protection side together.
Dan’s approach is thorough and practical. He takes time to understand your circumstances, research your options and explain the recommendation clearly.
- First time buyer mortgages
- Home mover mortgages
- Bad credit mortgage advice
- Portfolio and landlord mortgages
- Contractor and self employed mortgages
- Specialist mortgage advice
- Life insurance and critical illness advice
- Family protection
Dan enjoys helping clients who may have struggled to find a suitable route elsewhere, particularly where a case needs patience, detail and clear advice.
Claire Northcote, Mortgage and Protection Adviser
Claire joined Your Mortgage Expert in 2022 after working with several estate agencies in Salisbury. She brings strong local property knowledge, excellent client care and a practical understanding of the home buying process.
Claire is particularly well placed to help first time buyers, shared ownership clients, home movers, remortgage clients and families who want to review their protection needs.
Claire understands that buying or moving home can feel overwhelming, especially if you’re doing it for the first time. She helps clients understand what they may be able to borrow, what documents are needed, which mortgage options may be suitable and what happens next.
She also helps families think about protection, including how life insurance, critical illness cover or income protection could support their mortgage and wider family needs.
Claire can help with:
- First time buyer mortgages
- Shared ownership mortgages
- Moving home mortgages
- Remortgage advice
- Family protection
- Life insurance and protection advice
- Local Salisbury property purchases
Claire is known for her friendly, reassuring approach and her focus on making the mortgage process feel clearer and less stressful.
Vicky Bush, Mortgage Processor
Vicky supports clients after the mortgage application has been submitted and is often the first person you speak to when you ring Your Mortgage Expert.
Her role is to help keep the process moving by liaising with advisers, lenders, solicitors and estate agents where needed. This can be especially valuable during the later stages of the mortgage process, when clients often want clear updates and reassurance.
Vicky helps make the experience more organised, less stressful and easier to manage through to completion.
Vicky helps with:
- Mortgage application processing
- Lender updates
- Solicitor and estate agent communication
- Completion support
- Client updates
Abby Nanson, Director
Abby is one of the founding directors of Your Mortgage Expert and leads the company’s marketing, website content and client communications.
Her role is to make sure clients can find clear, helpful information before they speak to an adviser, and that the Your Mortgage Expert website reflects the advice, experience and care clients receive from the team.
Abby focuses on making the mortgage process feel more understandable from the client’s point of view. This includes improving website pages, explaining mortgage topics in plain English, sharing useful updates and helping clients understand when speaking to an adviser could save time, reduce stress and give them more confidence.
She also works closely with the advisers and support team to make sure the business continues to feel personal, approachable and genuinely helpful.
Abby helps with:
• Client communications
• Website content and SEO
• Marketing and brand development
• Client experience
• Local business relationships
• Community engagement
• Making mortgage information easier to understand
Abby loves working at Your Mortgage Expert because it allows the team to do things properly, with honesty, care and a personal approach. She is passionate about making sure clients feel welcomed, supported and confident from their first contact with the business.
Not sure who to speak to?
You do not need to choose the adviser before contacting us.
If you are not sure who is best placed to help, send us a message or call the office. We will point you in the right direction based on what you need.
We can help with:
- First time buyer mortgages
- Moving home mortgages
- Remortgage advice
- Buy to let mortgages
- Specialist mortgage advice
- Self employed and complex income cases
- Protection and insurance advice
This page was last updated by the Mortgage and Protection team in May 2026