Lifetime Mortages

OneFamily outlines remote applications policy

OneFamily has made some changes to its processes to ensure that its lifetime mortgage...

‘Best Buy’ lifetime mortgage rate unveiled by Responsible Lending

Responsible Lending has introduced a  lifetime mortgage at 2.78% AER. The new rate was released...

MCI Club offers lifetime mortgages with OneFamily partnership

MCI Mortgage Club has appointed OneFamily to its lender panel, extending its range of...

Legal & General Home Finance joins IMLA

Legal & General Home Finance has become the latest lender to join the Intermediary...

Pure Retirement unveils its lowest ever equity release rate

Pure Retirement had made changes to its Classic range, with the lowest MER on...

Advise Wise Mortgage Club adds Hodge to panel

Hodge has been added to Advise Wise Mortgage Club’s lender panel. ...

More 2 Life promises application to offer in 14 working days

Equity release lender, More 2 Life, has launched its fastpath portal Service Promise, guaranteeing...

Pure Retirement expands Classic Lifetime Mortgage availability

Pure Retirement has made its Classic Lifetime Mortgage range available to a wider section...

TMA adds Legal & General Home Finance to equity release panel

TMA Club has added retirement lending solutions provider Legal & General Home Finance to...

Year-on-year fall for equity release

Latest data from Key has revealed that retired homeowners released more than £3.4 billion...

Canada Life cuts Lifestyle Options rates

Canada Life has reduced rates on three of the products in its Lifestyle Options...

Growing number of people still don’t understand equity release

Despite recent figures showing that £2.8 billion in lifetime mortgages was lent by the...

New equity release product “launched every 48 hours”

Advisers and their customers now have over 314 equity release plan options – an...

OneFamily relaunches ‘Super LTV’ lifetime mortgage

OneFamily has reintroduced its lifetime mortgage for higher loans to value (LTVs). The Super LTV...

COMMENT

Your clients can’t tell which firm they’re dealing with

Two clients walk into your firm in the same week. One of them is a referral from a mate of yours. Complicated case, self-employed, bit...

It’s time to look at retention

As the summer winds down and the back-to-school routine kicks back in, I urge the industry to turn its attention to something just as...

Landlords are buying – and advisers should take note

There has been no shortage of commentary over recent years suggesting landlords are heading for the exit, buy-to-let apparently no longer works and the...

Why energy efficiency is hiding mortgage portfolio risk

For years, ESG strategies across the UK mortgage sector have operated under a relatively straightforward principle: better Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings equal lower...

Affordability shocks and expiring deals: why the 2026 mortgage peak demands a holistic protection review

I speak to mortgage advisers and brokers every day, and one topic keeps coming up - the sheer number of mortgage deals coming to...

Latest news

Pepper Money reduces residential and buy-to-let rates

Pepper Money has cut rates across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges and launched...

Barclays to launch 24-hour fast-track remortgage service

Barclays is to introduce a fast-track remortgage service that could provide eligible borrowers with...

Conveybuddy reports 88% rise in instructions after two years

Conveyancing distributor conveybuddy has reported an 88% year-on-year increase in instructions as it marks...

Hanley Economic launches shared ownership mortgages for foreign nationals

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced two shared ownership mortgages for foreign nationals living...

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