Patrick Sargisson is a mortgage adviser with Guardian Smith, based in the firm's Cranford Street office in Sydenham, Christchurch. He came to the role after seven years in the New Zealand Defence Force and has been through the home-buying process himself. The website says he combines that experience with financial advice qualifications. He can help with buying a first home, upsizing, refinancing, switching, investment property and rate refixes. Enquiries go through a form on the website, and the firm says an adviser will be in touch within one business day, or a phone call can be arranged. The firm is authorised under its FSP registration, FSP1002543, to provide financial advice. Within a kilometre, eight other mortgage brokers are listed on Open Locally, including several at Guardian Smith's office, and one of them, Ella McLean, is rated 5.0 from 66 reviews.