Equity Release

Call to raise retirement lending awareness

More 2 Life is urging advisers to enter the lifetime lending sector and make unlocking equity part...

Equity release lending at highest level for over a decade

The autumn 2016 Equity Release Market Report from the Equity Release Council has reported growth of...

OneFamily joins L&G later life panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added OneFamily to its direct to lender Later Life...

£1tn now in retirees’ property wealth

Retired homeowners have seen their property wealth break through the £1 trillion barrier for...

Advisers don’t want easier access to equity release

Nearly two-thirds of attendees in a seminar focusing on equity release at this year’s...

More 2 Life invests in staff and service

More 2 Life has increased staff numbers by 53% over the past 18 months and...

Equity release funding family deposits

Almost one in three equity release customers are using cash to fund deposits for...

Age Partnership reveals expansion plans

Retirement specialist Age Partnership has reported year-on-year business growth of 35%. This compares to year-on-year growth...

More 2 Life backs FCA rule relaxation

More 2 Life has welcomed the recent move by the Financial Conduct Authority to...

More 2 Life hires head of operations

More 2 Life has announced the appointment of Steven Dodd to its operations team. Dodd...

Equity release increasingly funding holidays

Retired homeowners spending on average £6,785 on trips abroad, according to Key Retirement. Its...

FSE London seminar programme revealed

The full seminar programme for Financial Services Expo (FSE) London has been announced. FSE London...

More 2 Life cuts Capital Choice Plan rate

More 2 Life has once again reduced rates with a new monthly interest rate of 4.49%...

MBE London to host equity release pavilion

Next month's Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) will include an equity release pavilion for lenders and...

COMMENT

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...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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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...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

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

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...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

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