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Drawdown
TMA Club teams up with Standard Life Home Finance
TMA Club has launched a new partnership with Standard Life Home Finance, bringing its...
15 June 2022
Key: £4bn equity release market record on the horizon
Equity release adviser Key has reveal that the equity release market is on course...
11 November 2021
Slight quarterly rise in equity release borrowing
The Equity Release Council has reported that over-55 homeowners accessed £1.17bn of property wealth...
29 July 2021
Product flexibility continues to increase in equity release market
Key Partnerships has revealed that the number of equity release products has reached a...
21 June 2021
Pure Retirement offers 40% annual repayments ERC-free
Pure Retirement has launched a new Heritage Freedom 40 product, offering customers the ability...
1 June 2020
Strong first quarter for equity release market
The Equity Release Council has revealed that £1.06bn of property wealth was accessed via equity...
30 April 2020
Year-on-year fall for equity release
Latest data from Key has revealed that retired homeowners released more than £3.4 billion...
17 January 2020
New equity release product “launched every 48 hours”
Advisers and their customers now have over 314 equity release plan options – an...
22 November 2019
Cautious equity release borrowers switch to drawdown
Equity release adviser Key has reported that third quarter take-up of drawdown plans grew...
15 November 2019
Expansion in the equity release market continues
The Equity Release Council has revealed that nearly £11 million of property wealth was unlocked...
28 October 2019
Rebrand for Key Retirement Group
Key Retirement Group has rebranded as Key Group. The group aims to be the UK’s...
3 October 2019
More 2 Life unveils new lump sum and drawdown products
More 2 Life has introduced two new products to its equity release offering. The lender’s...
2 September 2019
Later life lending market to double in a decade
The later life lending market is set to almost double in size over the...
24 June 2019
Equity release market records its fastest ever start to a year
The Equity Release Council has reported that the first quarter of 2019 was the...
29 April 2019
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COMMENT
Comment
Bank Rate holds, but the pressure is building
The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) last month at 3.75% provides another period of stability for the mortgage market,...
25 August 2026
How are we supporting the next generation of first-time buyers?
With GCSE and A-level results out over the last fortnight, it feels like the right moment to ask a question the industry doesn't spend...
24 August 2026
Let’s not get bogged down in the macro, let’s focus on the ones and twos
In challenging times such as this, it often feels like the first instinct for many in the mortgage market is to talk it down....
21 August 2026
Underwriting: Are we saying “no” to the wrong risks?
Over the last two days I’ve talked about the size of the later life lending market and the knowledge gap that still exists around...
20 August 2026
The blind spot: residential advisers and the over-55 customer
Yesterday I talked about the supportive nature of the equity release and later life lending community and the fact that collaboration is one of...
19 August 2026
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Regions share £10bn allocation for 70,000 affordable homes
More than 70,000 social and affordable homes are to be built across six English...
26 August 2026
Appointments
Amanda Bryden appointed to lead Accord Mortgages
Yorkshire Building Society has appointed Amanda Bryden as director of distribution and incoming managing...
26 August 2026
marketing
TMG backs Rotherham United Women in shirt sponsorship deal
TMG Financial Services has agreed a partnership with Rotherham United Women FC to become...
26 August 2026
Buy-to-let
ModaMortgages adds fixed-fee options to limited-edition range
ModaMortgages has expanded its limited-edition buy-to-let range with new fixed and percentage-based product fee...
25 August 2026
PROFILES
Toni Smith on the human factor and the fourth emergency service
The AI questions the mortgage industry needs to ask – and address
Claire Cherrington on the opportunities ahead for mortgage clubs