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OneFamily Lifetime Mortgages joins the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has welcomed OneFamily Lifetime Mortgages to its membership. This follows the...

Sales up at OneFamily

OneFamily has reported its 2015 annual results. The business was created out of last year’s...

Call for easy mortgage to equity release transition

Lenders need to focus plans for equity release innovation on schemes enabling customers to...

London equity release loans up 12%

Homeowners in London have released an average of almost £150,000 from their properties to...

Interest-only fuelling equity release rise

Key Retirement has reported a significant increase in sales of lump sum equity release...

OneFamily’s lifetime mortgages launch

OneFamily has revealed that the two new lifetime mortgage products announced last month have now gone...

New board appointments at the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has appointed five new senior industry fugures to its main board...

FSE Manchester reveals seminar schedule

Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester has published details of its seminar programmes for the event...

L&G cuts lifetime mortgage rates

Legal & General has made cuts in interest rates for its lifetime mortgage products. There is...

Bower Retirement Services strengthens management team

Equity release specialist Bower Retirement Services has appointed Hannah Gray as head of operations. She will...

Drawdown popularity continues to increase market share

The total value of equity release lending grew by 21% in the first quarter...

LLA and ERC members to benefit from new sourcing tool

A new sourcing system for equity release and retirement lending products being launched in...

Mike Rogers to stand down as LV= chief exec

Mike Rogers has told the board of LV= that he intends to step down as...

OneFamily reveals lifetime product details

OneFamily, which earlier this week announced its intention to enter the lifetime mortgage market...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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