Put your house on Lee’s advice!

A FORMER Dundee teacher has turned his side business into an award-winning mortgage advice company which now employs more than a dozen people.

Lee McKelvie worked at Craigie High School for eight years while sitting mortgage exams as it was a career he had always considered.

Now he has turned the venture into a successful business, Mortgage Advice Bureau Dundee, which has recently earned him top awards.

Lee said: “I was always good with numbers and people so I thought I would give it a go.

“My initial intention was to do both jobs – teaching during the day and mortgages at night – and being a workaholic that seemed natural.

“After passing my exams in November 2011, I started doing the mortgages of colleagues at school and it quickly spiralled to a place where I had to reduce my school hours to four days per week, then three, and then eventually I had a choice to make.

“It was not an easy one to be honest but now that I have built a business with 11 advisers and have won a national award, it seems like the right one.

“At first I actually worked for a couple of different mortgage companies in Dundee. I would head straight there after school and I eventually thought I could do it better on my own so I worked from home initially.

“I was then approached by Mortgage Advice Bureau in July 2016 and I opened up a shop on the Perth Road.

“From there I have built the team, including bringing my wife into the company as operations manager. We moved to our new shop and offices on Dock Street at the end of February.”

Together with his team, Lee helps locals with whatever their mortgage needs are from remortgaging to buying their first home.

He added: “We are all extremely focused and simply love helping people – whatever their mortgage or protection requirements.

“I work all hours of the day to go that extra mile for customers.

“The reason I do it is because most of all, I love calling a client to tell them that their mortgage offer is in, and subject to the legalities, they’ll be getting the keys and cash they’ve been praying for.

“That’s why we’re in this job and ultimately why we put customers first in everything we do.

“We plan to be in the heart of Dundee for many years to come.”