Why attend
Attending the Mortgage Strategy Specialist Lending Awards is a unique opportunity to raise your profile, validate achievement, and celebrate excellence across specialist and commercial mortgage lending. The Awards will take place on Tuesday 15 September at The Belfry, with premium table packages available to book.
Here’s why you can’t afford to miss it:
Profile your
business
The Awards put your business firmly in the spotlight. With senior leaders from across specialist and commercial lending in the room, this is a powerful event to showcase your brand, expertise, and proposition to a highly targeted audience of decision-makers.
Validate
achievement
Winning a Mortgage Strategy Specialist Lending Award is a meaningful endorsement of excellence. It recognises innovation, expertise, and outstanding performance in a market where problem-solving and flexibility truly matter.
Join the leaders
shaping specialist lending
The ceremony brings together the most influential figures operating in specialist and commercial finance. It’s a rare opportunity to connect with peers, partners, and leaders who are actively shaping the future of the sector.
Gain extensive
exposure
Partners and finalists benefit from significant visibility before, during, and after the event. Exposure spans Mortgage Strategy’s digital, social, print, and editorial channels, ensuring your achievements reach the wider market.
Trust in a transparent
process
The Awards are underpinned by a rigorous and transparent judging process. Every entry is carefully reviewed by Mortgage Strategy’s editorial team and an expert panel of judges, ensuring winners are genuinely deserving and highly respected.
Be part of the specialist
lending story
The specialist sector continues to redefine what’s possible in mortgage lending. By attending, you’re not just celebrating success, you’re contributing to the story of a market built on innovation, expertise, and ambition.
The Mortgage Strategy Specialist Lending Awards bring together the leading names across the specialist and commercial mortgage landscape for an unforgettable evening of recognition, networking, and celebration. Whether you’re a finalist, sponsor, or guest, the Awards offer an unrivalled opportunity to connect with the people and businesses driving the sector forward.
Premium table packages are available to purchase. Visit our website regularly or follow our social channels for the latest updates, booking information, and event news.
The MS Specialist Lending Cup
Elite Golf, High-Level Networking, Unmissable Industry Access
The MS Specialist Lending Cup brings together 10 leading sponsor-lenders, each fielding a mixed lender–broker team in a fourball competition at The Belfry’s iconic Brabazon Course, creating high-energy rivalry and genuine collaboration.
Running the same day as the Mortgage Strategy Specialist Lending Awards, it delivers a unique, end-to-end event for premium networking with senior lenders and brokers.
With a Learn to Play experience and wellness activities, the day is fully inclusive - ensuring every attendee can participate and connect, whether they golf or not. The MS Specialist Lending Cup presents a standout opportunity to deepen relationships, build new partnerships, and be part of the industry’s most prestigious combined competition and celebration experience.
Please contact James Prosser for more details and to book onto a team.
Venue & timings
The winners of the 2026 Mortgage Strategy Specialist Lending Awards will be announced on Tuesday 15 September at the Belfry Hotel & Resort
Belfry Hotel & Resort
Lichfield Road
Sutton Coldfield
B76 9PR
Find the Belfry in the heart of the Midlands, just minutes from the UK's major motorway and rail network, 15 minutes from Birmingham International Airport, 25 minutes from Birmingham City Centre and less than 70 minutes train journey from London.
Awards FAQs
Hopefully you'll find an answer to your question below. If not, please contact Euan Cleland-Orgle on +44 (0) 203 953 2202 or email euan.cleland-orgle@emap.com.
When and where is the Awards ceremony?
The 2026 Mortgage Strategy Specialist Lending Awards will take place in London on Tuesday 15 September 2026 at the
Belfry Hotel & Resort
Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield, B76 9PR.
What is the dress code for the Awards?
The dress code is black tie.
What are the approximate timings for the Awards?
Approximate timings are as below:
- 18.30 Drinks reception
- 19.30 Awards and Dinner
- 23.00 Entertainment
- 01.00 Carriages
Please note, timings are subject to change; final timings will be sent with your tickets, c. 2 weeks prior to the event.
How do I book a table?
Table prices and packages are now available for purchase. Click here to find out more details. For any queries in the meantime, please contact Euan Cleland-Orgle.
How is the table plan decided?
Priority seating is allocated initially to VIPs and Sponsors; this is then followed by paid platinum table bookings, then gold tables and finally silver tables in booking date order.
There will be a full table plan available on the night, at the Awards ceremony.
Can I request a specific seating plan?
The Mortgage Strategy team are not able to set out a particular seating plan for your table and don’t provide place cards for the event, but if table bookers have a specific seating plan in mind, table hosts are welcome to lay out place cards during the drinks reception on the night.
When will my tickets arrive?
Tickets will be sent out approximately 2 weeks prior to the event, providing payment has been received.