Lifetime Mortages

Under-50s increasingly receiving financial support via released equity

New research from Hodge has found that almost two-thirds of people who are receiving...

Pure Retirement’s portfolio surpasses £5bn

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has surpassed £5 billion of loans serviced, following its...

Equity Release Supermarket launches referral service

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), the independent equity release advisory service, has announced the launch...

BoMaD consider equity release as means for children to buy a home

Parents are turning to lifetime mortgages to help their children buy a home, as...

Air teams up with New Leaf Distribution

Air, the later-life lending platform, has partnered with New Leaf Distribution to bolster the...

OMS in API integration with Air Sourcing

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced a full application programming interface (API) integration with...

Royal London acquires Responsible Group

Royal London has wholly acquired the later life lending and product specialists, the Responsible...

Legal & General unveils new lifetime mortgage for over-50s

Legal & General Home Finance has introduced its Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLM), a...

More needs-based borrowing from lifetime mortgage cash releases

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has discovered a mixed picture among those who access...

One third of older homeowners see themselves as vulnerable

32% of people aged 50–79 years consider themselves vulnerable, according to a LiveMore survey...

Advise Wise adds Early Repayment Charge period sorting feature

Advise Wise, the later life sourcing platform, has launched a new feature allowing advisers...

Managing the FCA’s later life mortgage expectations

Our sector continues to dissect September’s FCA review focused on the ‘Action needed to...

Q3 new lifetime mortgage data split between aspiration and necessary

Pure Retirement has published its analysis of its Q3 loan usage data for new...

Equity release market returns to growth

The Equity Release Council has reported that the equity release market has seen growth...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

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