About Us
OWN Property Finance Specialists are your partner in financial empowerment.
We enhance your property loan applications by innovating the bond origination process, turning your biggest property investment into your most rewarding one.
Our Team
Our seasoned professionals, serving as independent property finance specialists, collaborate closely with you and all South African Banks to craft finance solutions for you to acquire property. Whether this is your home or an investment – these solutions will enhance your long term wealth creation. Our team leverage our deep expertise and strong bank relationships to present and negotiate the most favourable loan terms for you.
Our Approach
Our service goes beyond processing loans. We work on a relationship of trust to open doors to more opportunities and options, enriching your financial journey.
Our Role
As property finance specialists, we provide expert, unbiased guidance in securing various types of property loans, catering to the specific needs of clients across residential, commercial, and investment real estate sectors. This includes analysing your situation, reviewing your options and negotiating the best deals.
Your Opportunity
With OWN, you’re embarking on more than a loan application; you’re starting an investment journey guided by our expertise and dedication to achieving exceptional results for you.
You are partnering with us to handle the admin, and guarantee the best deal, at no cost to you.
Meet the Founder
Gail has worked in Corporate Investment and Private Banking for over 20 years. She believes that the most meaningful way in which OWN will succeed is by ensuring that everyone succeeds – by building mutually beneficial relationships with financial institutions, business partners, and clients.
Actualising the investment potential not only for property buyers but for everyone involved in the property ecosystem by creating synergies and unlocking opportunities.
Gail knows that trust and integrity are imperative to establish a relationship with her clients so that she can truly understand them.
She is passionate about her clients understanding finance and how securing the optimal loan solutions impacts or enhances long term wealth creation.
She is a mother, a wife, a tenacious deal maker and feels privileged to be all three.
Meet the Team
Cindy Kirchner
Property Finance Specialist
With 20 years of home loan experience, Cindy is passionate and determined to instill confidence in home buyers, and to help each of her clients achieve their dreams.
Celeste Vaughan
Property Finance Specialist
With over 20 years of experience in real estate and a decade in property finance, Celeste’s passion is creating innovative financing solutions to help her clients realise their homeownership and investment goals.
Jo Potts
Property Finance Specialist
With over 25 years of global, private banking expertise, Jo specialises in result-driven, relationship-focused financial guidance, ensuring her clients reach their property investment goals with sound investment decisions.
Jess Jones
Property Finance Specialist
With over 12 years of experience as a Private Banker, Jess has invaluable knowledge and specialises in creating personalised, trend-leading solutions for her clients. She excels at turning challenges into opportunities, and viewing obstacles as chances to achieve the impossible.