About Us

We are mortgage specialists

Perhaps the most commonly used legal instrument is a mortgage. Virtually everyone who buys a home will borrow and secure the loan by a mortgage over their property.

Just because the legal instrument is common doesn’t mean you should take it for granted. We understand the law of mortgages and understand the potential pitfalls – for lenders and for borrowers.

The mortgage industry in Australia and New Zealand

The mortgage industry may be viewed as comprising three distinct parts – funding, servicing and distribution. Historically, the model has been one of vertical integration with all three parts undertaken by one party.

As the industry has developed other models have developed that break this vertical integration and provide for different parties to provide services in each of the three parts. The development of non-bank lenders, mortgage brokers and securitisation in Australia and New Zealand is evidence of this development.

As a specialist provider of legal advice and legal services to funders, lenders, mortgage originators and mortgage servicers in Australia and New Zealand Sanderson Weir is a part of this changing model.