Lifetime Mortages

15% rise in Q2 equity release lending

Latest quarterly market data shows that new equity release customer numbers increased by 12%...

Average equity release customer getting younger

Pure Retirement has analysed demographic trends over the first half of 2024 to form...

Equity Release Group partners with Royal London Equity Release

Equity Release Group (ERG) has announced a new partnership with Responsible Lending, the exclusive...

Standard Life Home Finance offers free EPCs and cashback

Standard Life Home Finance has announced a new EPC scheme to encourage consumers to...

Air adds logging feature for CPD

Air, the later-life lending platform, has introduced a new CPD log feature for its...

Savings from voluntary lifetime mortgage repayments revealed

The Equity Release Council has reported that customers using equity release will save almost...

Perenna joins Air and its Advocate Ambassador programme

Perenna has announced its partnership with Air, the later-life lending platform for advisers and...

LiveMore removes maximum age and ups standard mortgage term

LiveMore has removed the maximum age and increased the term across its range of...

Air conference outlines need for later life industry evolution

Air held its fifth annual National Later Life Lending Conference last Thursday, where the...

Rise in broker satisfaction with lenders across all sectors

Smart Money People has published its H1 2024 Mortgage Lender Benchmark covering mortgage broker...

Just 1% real-term rise in weekly pension income over past decade

People on pension incomes have received minimal increases in real standards of living over...

MBE London and FIBA Summit programmes published

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has issued the programme for this year’s MBE London event. The...

Air outlines headline speakers for National Later Life Lending Conference

Air, the later life lending network, has announced the industry speakers who will headline...

Hodge, Livemore & Air Mortgage Club back later life events

Hodge, Livemore and the Air Mortgage Club are supporting the ‘Later Life Lending Collaboration,...

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We need clearer guidance on Stamp Duty advice

Just over a week ago Angela Rayner resigned following the discovery of a Stamp Duty breach on a flat she owns in Hove. She...

Discount Market Value: a local solution for a national housing challenge

The UK housing market is under constant scrutiny, especially when it comes to bolstering the supply of affordable housing. The government’s recent announcement of a...

Don’t overlook lifetime mortgages for clients with IHT worries

Lifetime mortgages have evolved significantly over the last few years. The industry has risen to the challenge, developing innovative new product features which ensure...

You can’t just turn on a tap and expect housing supply to flow

Yawn and stretch, the government have appointed a new housing Czar in place of the thoroughly discredited Angie Rayner, former Deputy Prime Minister, who...

Alan Cleary: Taking the helm at Chetwood Bank

When Alan Cleary retired from the mortgage industry in 2021 he thought his days of running banks were behind him. After more than three decades...

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South drives first annual asking house price fall since 2024

Asking prices for homes in Great Britain have slipped into annual decline for the...

Rents fall as inflationary pressures mount

Tenants are beginning to feel some respite as rents across Great Britain fall at...

Bank of England set to hold rates as inflation proves sticky

The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates at 4% this week...

Mortgage pros stride for mental health on Thames Bridges Trek

Mortgage industry pros from Crystal Specialist Finance, Market Financial Solutions, Movin Legal, MT Finance, United...