Equity Release

Property wealth continues to rise for retired homeowners

KeyRetirement.com has revealed that retired homeowners have seen their property wealth grow by £9.24...

Bower votes for Commons charity dinner

Equity release specialist Bower Retirement Services is backing Pancreatic Cancer UK and Saint Francis...

Aldermore to hold seminars at MBE Bristol Expo

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced a joint seminar programme with Aldermore at the...

Largeequityrelease.com joins PMS referral panel

Largeequityrelease.com has become a master broker on PMS's new specialist lending panel for equity...

LV= added to L&G Later Life panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added LV= to its direct to lender Later Life Lending...

AIR Sourcing goes live

AIR Sourcing, a new sourcing system for equity release and retirement lending products, has gone live with...

TenetLime expands mortgage panel

TenetLime has expanded its whole of market mortgage panel with the addition of four...

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...

COMMENT

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

Latest news

First-time buyer and home mover demand holds up as mortgage applications fall

First-time buyers and home movers proved more resilient than remortgage borrowers during a weaker...

Specialist Hub appoints OMS to streamline client management

Specialist Hub has selected One Mortgage System (OMS) as its customer relationship management provider...

Brokers brace for possible interest rate rise as borrowers turn cautious

Nearly six in 10 Primis brokers expect the Bank of England to raise interest...

Nivo targets broker paperwork burden with AI webinar

Nivo is to hold a free webinar for mortgage brokers on where firms should...

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