What do you expect from your Cheltenham independent mortgage advice team?

Neil Gayler & Co. packs an amazing amount of skill and expertise into one of the friendliest, most approachable, and most experienced independent mortgage advice teams in Gloucestershire.

Mortgage advice that puts you where you want to be

We’re big enough to have the expertise to quickly get you the mortgage that’s perfect for your life stage, financial means and lifestyle. We’re also small and approachable enough that your mortgage advice stays professional, friendly and under complete control from start to finish. Indeed, we’re regularly complimented on the efficient, friendly and professional experience our clients enjoy – as well as great mortgage advice.

More than just a financial product sale

Above all, we recognise that mortgage advice should involve more than just understanding interest rates, repayment periods and down payments. There’s also the impossible-to-quantify, yet vital, matter of properly understanding your property needs and aspirations.

Here’s an overview of our mortgage advice team.

Neil Gayler

Principal & Independent Financial Adviser

As the driving force behind Neil Gayler & Co, Cheltenham based Neil Gayler established the business as Independent Financial Advisers in June 1997.

As well as the duties and responsibilities that go with being our principal, Neil focuses on the management of business relationships with clients, with particular emphasis on financial planning & wealth management.

In addition to the expertise Neil brings to the business, he’s the focal point for ensuring that our clients, prospective clients and business contacts receive the highest level of professionalism and courtesy, whatever their relationship with us.

Neil’s been providing financial advice for the whole of his working life, including a period in sales management. During this time, he’s built up a unique breadth and depth of experience helping private and business clients as well as trustees.

As well as being reassured by his considerable real-world experience, Neil’s clients gain confidence from his CertPFS, CII Mortgage Advice Qualification (MAQ) and many other qualifications in retirement planning, estate planning, wealth management and tax planning.

Not surprisingly, his role at the head of the business is a demanding one. When he’s not immersed in clients’ financial planning or mortgage requirements, Neil, who is married to Karen with two sons, Tom and Ed, enjoys keeping fit, playing golf and swimming, as well as watching live and televised sport and pursuing a healthy teetotal lifestyle. A passionate outdoorsman, Neil has a keen interest in environmental issues and the natural world and enjoys nothing better than escaping the intense financial services world for a little R & R in the Cotswolds or the Lake District.

Janet Attwooll

Independent Mortgage Adviser

More than four years with the Neil Gayler & Co. team has seen Janet Attwooll carve a vital role as a mortgage and protection adviser.

As well as building close relationships with local estate agents, Janet spends much of her time meeting clients’ to understand their mortgage needs and giving them the best mortgage and protection advice.

With more than 24 years’ experience in financial services (the last six as an independent mortgage adviser), Janet brings a wealth of industry experience to our clients. Her many years in financial services management and sales is perfectly complemented by her CeMAP, Equity Release and Home Reversion qualifications.

With typical candour, Janet, who has a grown-up son and daughter, confesses that she’s been married for longer than she’s been single!  When she’s not building those vital relationships with Gloucestershire’s estate agents, or demystifying the mortgage minefield for another grateful client, she loves socialising and entertaining as well as going on holidays with her husband and friends.

Alison Taylor

Office Manager & Senior Administrator

Ten years on the team hasn’t dampened Alison’s passion for the world of mortgage advice and independent financial planning.

No two days are the same as Alison provides high quality administrative support to the team’s advisers. Whether she’s providing a warm welcome to telephone callers and visitors, processing new business or maintaining clients’ records, she’s the hard-working administrative engine behind our continuing success.

Before joining us, Alison worked for various companies in and around the financial services sector including an estate agent, a building society and an accountancy/liquidations specialist – the perfect background, in fact, for her current role.

Her professional qualifications include FPC 1 & 2 and NVQ Level 2 in Business and Administration.