Equity Release

Lord Lipsey predicts major role for equity release

A peer has praised the "tremendous flexibility" of equity release in providing extra income...

KRS appoints group marketing chief

Key Retirement Solutions has announced the appointment of Tony Kane as group marketing director. He...

KRS appoints finance chief

Key Retirement Solutions has appointed Simon Thompson as group finance director. His appointment follows the...

New equity release provider unveiled

A new equity release provider is to enter the market in January 2014. Pure Retirement...

Equity release bucks attitude to the older borrower

One major consequence of the credit crunch and the financial crisis which engulfed the...

Wealth boost for mortgage-free pensioners

Retired homeowners gained around £1,300 a month on average in the past three months...

Roundtable to discuss how equity release can be improved

The Financial Services Consumer Panel and StepChange Debt Charity are co-hosting a roundtable discussion...

Just Retirement reveals IPO share price

Just Retirement has announces that the offer price for its IPO has been set...

Castle Trust targets London homeowners

Castle Trust, the equity loans provider, is marketing a solution for London homeowners keen...

10% year-on-year growth in released equity

Housing market growth is driving confidence in using property wealth to boost retirement income...

Over-45s “wildly optimistic” about their retirement provision

The majority of over-45s in the UK expect to retire with at least £490,990...

85% of over-55s have no long-term care plans

Over half of over-55s face "financial meltdown" in the event of needing to pay...

Equity release market continues to grow

The value of equity release plans agreed in the third quarter of 2013 totalled...

Parents still supporting offspring post-retirement

Parents’ financial commitments to their children do not end when their offspring start working...

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,...

Latest news

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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