MortgageWorks is a Sydney brokerage in Surry Hills, founded in 2021 by directors Anthony Roddy, George Fennel and Nick Jacobs — backgrounds in chartered taxation (Deloitte, Vistra), property investment, and economics/financial markets respectively. 502 Google reviews at a clean 5.0 stars, and the directors collectively carry MPA Top 100 listings across 2015-2025, MPA Top 40 Under 40, and a Connective NSW Broker of the Year finalist nod (2024).
The lender panel sits at 40+ lenders. Trading is 7 AM – 9 PM seven days a week, which is unusual — both Saturday and Sunday operating hours. Service spans residential, investment, commercial, SMSF, construction, development finance and bridging. The firm is a Corporate Credit Representative of Connective Credit Services (ACL 389328), MFAA member, and CIO member. Service costs nothing directly — brokers are paid by the lender on settlement.
MortgageWorks is run by three directors — Anthony Roddy (former chartered accountant, MPA Top 100 multiple years), George Fennel (UTS Bachelor of Business, AMA Young Gun nomination) and Nick Jacobs (Sydney University Agricultural Economics, MFAA Top 30 Under 30). Each director leads a credit-adviser team. The most-named brokers in recent reviews are Tom Schofield (Senior Credit Adviser, Sydney Uni Economics graduate, commercial and development finance focus), Jack Greentree (ex-Richardson & Wrench real estate agent, six years in broking, executive and time-sensitive professional clients), Lionel Bustamante (ex-luxury automotive General Sales Manager, residential and investor focus), Sage Shahi (Credit Adviser in George's team, Women in Finance Awards finalist 2020/2021/2023), Jolene O'Donnell, Sohel Tamrakar, Lewis Wigington, Mehdy Chioub, Max Meagher and Meagan Morris. Operations are led by Odessa Tuico (Head of Operations) and Rachelle Ann Alfonso (Back Office Team Manager).
What clients say: extended-hours responsiveness — "late at night and on weekends," "out of work hours" — comes up across multiple recent reviews. Complex files are a recurring theme; clients explicitly mention being declined or struggling elsewhere before placement here. Strong fit for first-home buyers, investment-portfolio borrowers, complex refinances, commercial and SMSF lending, and busy professionals needing weekend availability. Less of a fit for borrowers wanting a single-broker firm — MortgageWorks is a sizeable team with director-led pods.
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Co-founder and director. Former chartered accountant at Deloitte and Vistra. MPA Top 100 Mortgage Broker 2020-2025.
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Co-founder and director. UTS Bachelor of Business. MPA Top 100 broker since 2015.
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Co-founder and director. Sydney University Agricultural Economics graduate, with prior commodities and bonds broking experience.
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Senior credit adviser specialising in commercial, development finance and complex residential.
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Five years broking experience following six years as a Richardson & Wrench real estate agent in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
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Former luxury-automotive General Sales Manager turned credit adviser. Named for after-hours responsiveness across recent reviews.
View profile →Recent verbatim reviews. See the firm's Google profile for the full set.
Anthony & the team came highly recommended to us by close friends when we wanted help organising our first home loan… Anthony got pre-approval with 2 different banks for us very quickly, and stayed in touch throughout the whole process of us actually making offers, settling, and is still in touch now that we've moved into our new home.
Jack Greentree has been the only mortgage broker I've dealt with and to be honest, I don't think I need to deal with any other mortgage brokers after him - he has been absolutely fantastic in providing useful advice (and quickly too!), walking us through various home loan options and going above and beyond what's asked of him.
Used their service a second time to handle a complicated interstate refinancing situation and Sohel has been very accommodating, progressional, easy to work with from the start to finish. I will definitely use them again and would recommend them to everyone.
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