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Equity Release
LiveMore overhauls unveils new lifetime products and adds drawdown
LiveMore has expanded its lifetime equity release products to further widen financial options for...
9 January 2025
The equity release market is dead… long live the later life lending market!
A few weeks ago, I struggled through the snow to attend the Equity Release...
18 December 2024
LiveMore achieves triple digit growth in revenue and lending
LiveMore has calculated that it will have generated year-on-year growth of 300% in revenue...
17 December 2024
Large lifetime loans offer useful option for high net worth clients
A big discussion point for many advisers and their clients recently has been the...
11 December 2024
LiveMore reduces all its mortgage rates
LiveMore has reduced rates across all its 200+ mortgages, spanning standard, retirement interest-only (RIO)...
11 December 2024
Broker satisfaction with lenders remains high
Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has released its Mortgage Lender Benchmark...
3 December 2024
Opportunities prevail in later life lending
The evolution of the later life lending market over the last 10 years has...
1 December 2024
Optimistic outlook for later life market despite lifetime mortgage slump
UK Finance has reported that that there were 5,830 new lifetime mortgages advanced in...
28 November 2024
Cumberland BS completes £1.1m holiday let & equity release
The Cumberland Building Society has helped investors Mike and Elina James to transform their...
28 November 2024
Equity release sector urged to ‘level up’
Equity Release Group (ERG) has called for heightened online accuracy and an "enriched" consumer...
27 November 2024
Right Mortgage Network outlines 2025 event schedule
The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has announced its calendar of events for members...
27 November 2024
Later Life Lending Network to go Great Gatsby with gala dinner
The Later Life Lending Network has revealed details of its Annual Conference, which will...
19 November 2024
Advise Wise partners with Comentis for vulnerability support
Advise Wise is to team up with Comentis, the duty of care assessment company,...
19 November 2024
Pure Retirement appoints new NED to board
Pure Retirement has announced the appointment of its new non-executive director (NED), Phillip McLelland. McLelland...
6 November 2024
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COMMENT
Cover
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...
9 June 2026
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,...
8 June 2026
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...
3 June 2026
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...
1 June 2026
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,...
29 May 2026
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Building Societies
The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages
The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...
10 June 2026
Building Societies
Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals
Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...
10 June 2026
Buy-to-let
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...
10 June 2026
valuations
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...
10 June 2026
PROFILES
Steve Caruthers on understanding how lenders operate
Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom
Profile: Andrew Lloyd, CEO of Fignum