Equity Release

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...

Key Retirement to offer retirement options proposition

In February Key Retirement will introduce a new Retirement Options service. This follows a...

The message advisers need to take into battle

The phrase ‘second line of defence’ has been used a lot lately, particularly in...

Bridgewater supports upcoming Equity Release Club events

Bridgewater Equity Release will be in attendance at the forthcoming Equity Release Club training and development...

Pensioners increasingly using unsecured credit

The latest Pensioner Debt Index from the Equity Release Council shows unsecured debt among...

Realities of state pension survival not clear to all

Only 12% of over-40s surveyed by Opinionmatters for Partnership said that they would survive...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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