Equity Release

New Life acquisition will boost equity release market

Acceptance can come in many different shapes and forms, particularly when it comes to...

Wanted: 800 new equity release specialists

Equity release adviser firm Bower Retirement Services has calculated that the UK needs to...

Goldsmith Williams welcomes L&G equity release move

Goldsmith Williams has said it is not surprised by the news that Legal & General...

L&G to enter lifetime mortgage market via acquisition

Legal & General Group is to acquire 100% of New Life Home Finance for...

Hodge Lifetime cuts five-year fixed rate

Hodge Lifetime has reduced the interest rate on its retirement mortgage with a five...

Bridgewater announces workshop timetable

Bridgewater Equity Release will hold its first ‘around the table’ adviser workshop of 2015...

Equity release customers funding home improvements

Key Retirement's 2014 Equity Release Market Monitor shows 63% of customers – compared with 58%...

Drawdown rate cut by Pure Retirement

Pure Retirement has cut the interest rate on the Pure Drawdown Plan. This scheme was...

DeVere Mortgages launches due to expat demand

DeVere United Kingdom has launched a new, standalone brand called deVere Mortgages. The FCA-regulated firm...

No fall in proportion of people retiring with debt

19% of those planning to retire in 2015 will do so with debts outstanding,...

LLA strikes will-writing deal

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers,...

Paradigm announces award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the yearly winners of its Lender and Provider Awards. ...

KR Group hires COO

KR Group, which trades as Key Retirement, has announced the appointment of Michael Schaefer...

29% year-on-year growth for equity release market

The total value of equity release lending reached £1.38bn in 2014, according to the...

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Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

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Movera launches specialist KYC team to speed up property transactions

Movera has established a new dedicated Know Your Client (KYC) team to handle source...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape...

HSBC to cut residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a wide range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts rates across core buy-to-let offering

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage provider Zephyr Homeloans has unveiled fresh rate reductions across its standard...

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