We are proud to offer specialist advice to first time buyers, please visit the dedicated first time buyer section of our site.

We have considerable experience in this area – for more information please visit our dedicated investor section

There are a number of factors to bear in mind when deciding what an affordable level of borrowing might be. We have a range of tools available on our site to help you to plan your purchase

Currently the Bank of England base rate is 0.5 percent which is the lowest it has ever been.

Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.

dot financial services charge a fee of £249 payable when you apply for a mortgage.

These products are designed to protect something – normally your income, home or possessions.

Financial jargon can be confusing – even for the experts! We’ve provided a comprehensive jargon buster to help explain the most commonly used terms 

For insurance business we arrange policies exclusively from Legal & General

There are a few options - the easiest is to call us on 0800 074 7857 or you can visit our requesting advice page if you would prefer to arrange for us to call you back at a time convenient to you.

We are always interested in speaking to exceptional individuals and whether you have relevant experience or are interested in joining the industry, we would like to hear from you. Please visit our careers pages to submit an application to our recruitment team

dot financial services has its own in-house PR department, which liaises regularly with property editors, journalists, reporters and TV production companies. We are able to provide professional and fast market comment on any aspect of the mortgage and protection industry and are happy to assist with sourcing case-studies to support any related stories.

dot is a financial services company which aims to provide simple and straightforward advice on mortgages and protection products.

Our head office is in Chertsey, Surrey and our team of dot advisors are based across the  branches of Townends and Regents estate agents in Surrey, South London, Middlesex and North Hampshire

Through our head office in Surrey, we are able to offer a full advice and case management service to customers based anywhere in the UK

The parent company of dot, Townends, Regents and Tyser Greenwood is called Badger Holdings

Peter Ford, Professional Services Director of dot financial services' parent company Badger Holdings Ltd, is in overall control of dot financial services  

dot financial services is a trading name of Townends (Financial Services) Limited, which is an appointed representative of Legal & General Partnership Services Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for advising on and arranging mortgages and insurance.