The Short Version of why people choose us as their mortgage brokers:
  • Your rate will be lower than you can get at your own bank,
  • We have access to all the banks,
  • The banks pay us for doing their work for them so there are usually no fees to you for our services,
  • Mortgages is all we do – for 13 years,
  • Our core team has more than 65 years experience,
  • We are always one of the top brokers at the largest brokerage in Canada,
  • Katie has done over $18- Billion in mortgages and can work the system to your advantage,
  • I am 1 of only a handfull of mortgage brokers in Canada with a Master’s Degree in Finance and you deal directly with me, not a junior team member.
  • You get my direct cell phone number and I answer most all days from 9 am to 9 pm - even on weekends!
  • Why use any one else?


Mark and Katie’s Bio

Mark Herman and Katie McDowell have placed as one of the Top-10 mortgage brokers out of 1,800 brokers at Canada’s largest, fullyindependent, mortgage brokerage, Mortgage Alliance for 2007 and 2008.

Mark has 10 years of professional customer service experience at companies large and small including 3 years at Hewlett Packard – the world’s largest computer manufacturer. He was awarded a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Economics from the University of Calgary in 1992. In 2003 Mark completed his Master’s degree in Finance from Herriot-Watt Business School at the University of Edinburgh which is regularly rated as one of the top-10 business schools in the world by the Economist magazine. He is the only mortgage broker with an MBA originating mortgages in Canada.

Mark’s business partner was a Senior Mortgage Escalation Officer at a bank and a trust company. She has 14 years of mortgage experience and has underwritten more than $18 Billion in residential mortgages. Together they head a team of 5 full-time mortgage professionals and complete both residential and commercial mortgage transactions all across
Canada.

Mark is a regular speaker and presenter on economics and mortgage data throughout Canada. He is often quoted in the media because of his knack for translating economics and data analysis into information that can be used by investors and purchasers in their decision making processes. (Press and reports are here)