Equity Release

UK homeowner equity reaches £5.7 trillion

The total value of the nation’s property equity has risen to a record £5.7...

Enness Global joins Equity Release Council

Enness Global, the international mortgage broker for high and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, business owners and...

Key Advice appoints director of advice and adviser services

Key Advice has announced the appointment of Rachel East as its new director of...

Equity Release Council launches retrofit lifetime mortgage guide

The Equity Release Council has published new guidance for member firms to consider when...

Equity Release Group grows management team

Equity Release Group (ERG) has announced three new hires that will join the group’s...

Advise Wise integrates with Canada Life via API

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of its latest API integration with Canada Life. The...

Homeowners aged 55+ more tech savvy than previously thought

New research has found that 62% of UK homeowners aged 55+ would look to...

15% rise in Q2 equity release lending

Latest quarterly market data shows that new equity release customer numbers increased by 12%...

Phoebus servicing over £20bn in equity release

Phoebus has revealed that it now services more than £20 billion of equity release...

Average equity release customer getting younger

Pure Retirement has analysed demographic trends over the first half of 2024 to form...

Equity Release Group partners with Royal London Equity Release

Equity Release Group (ERG) has announced a new partnership with Responsible Lending, the exclusive...

Standard Life Home Finance offers free EPCs and cashback

Standard Life Home Finance has announced a new EPC scheme to encourage consumers to...

Air adds logging feature for CPD

Air, the later-life lending platform, has introduced a new CPD log feature for its...

Savings from voluntary lifetime mortgage repayments revealed

The Equity Release Council has reported that customers using equity release will save almost...

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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...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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Stagg Mortgage Services appoints Paul Lewis as growth director

Stagg Mortgage Services has appointed Paul Lewis as its new growth director as part...

HLPartnership adds Handelsbanken to lender panel

HLPartnership has added Handelsbanken to its lender panel as part of its ongoing strategy...

FCA warns consumers over ineffective credit builder products

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that many credit builder products fail to...

Affordability pressures deepen in Wales and North East as rental divergence widens

Regional divergence within the UK’s private rented sector has become more pronounced, with new...

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