Equity Release

More 2 Life unveils new Capital Choice feature

More 2 Life is adding fixed early repayment charges (ERCs) to its Capital Choice Plan...

Rising interest in equity release switching

Cuts in equity release rates are behind a rise in inquiries about switching plans...

Age Partnership buys web firm

Age Partnership has acquired website development and optimisation business The Marketing Lab. The acquisition sees...

Key Retirement appoints group CFO

Key Retirement Group has appointed Rob Scott as its new chief financial officer (CFO). He...

Retirement group outlines 2017 expansion plans

Answers in Retirement Ltd has announced the buy-back of 25% of the business which returns...

Pensioners will increasingly rely on housing equity

Price of homes in England have risen at twice the rate of pensioner households’ disposable...

Milestone reached by Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has welcomed its 500th member this month. The news follows another...

Over-65 homeowners have property wealth of £1.031 trillion

Retired homeowners have gained an average of £26,000 tax-free this year from their houses,...

Hodge Lifetime joins MCI panel

Hodge Lifetime has become the latest lender to join MCI Mortgage Club’s panel. The lender...

More over-55s expect to take debt into retirement

More 2 Life has found that 40% of Britons over the age of 55 will still...

More 2 Life supports FCA training move

Equity release lender More 2 Life has welcomed the recent move by the Financial...

Bower Retirement Services rebrands

National specialist adviser Bower Retirement Services has changed its name to Bower Retirement. The adviser firm, founded...

Call for equity release conveyancer expansion

Key Retirement is calling for more conveyancing firms to provide specialist equity release services...

OneFamily lifetime mortgage distribution widened

Sesame and PMS have added OneFamily to their lender panels. OneFamily's range of lifetime mortgages available...
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COMMENT

Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

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Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...
News

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...
Technology

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...
News

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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