Equity Release

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...

Perenna joins Air and its Advocate Ambassador programme

Perenna has announced its partnership with Air, the later-life lending platform for advisers and...

CSS partners with Advise Wise

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has formed a partnership with Advise Wise, joining its Contacts...

Standard Life Home Finance’s Horizon Interest Reward now on all sourcing platforms

Standard Life Home Finance's Horizon Interest Reward product has launched on Iress’s The Exchange. ...

LiveMore removes maximum age and ups standard mortgage term

LiveMore has removed the maximum age and increased the term across its range of...

Air conference outlines need for later life industry evolution

Air held its fifth annual National Later Life Lending Conference last Thursday, where the...

Rise in broker satisfaction with lenders across all sectors

Smart Money People has published its H1 2024 Mortgage Lender Benchmark covering mortgage broker...

Mental health a rising issue for over-55s

The cost of living crisis has had a significant effect on the mental health...

Just 1% real-term rise in weekly pension income over past decade

People on pension incomes have received minimal increases in real standards of living over...

MBE London and FIBA Summit programmes published

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has issued the programme for this year’s MBE London event. The...

Air outlines headline speakers for National Later Life Lending Conference

Air, the later life lending network, has announced the industry speakers who will headline...

COMMENT

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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NPS Law joins My Legal Club conveyancing panel

NPS Law has joined My Legal Club’s UK conveyancing panel following a review of...

Barclays loosens affordability rules for residential and buy-to-let borrowers

Barclays has changed its affordability calculations for residential and buy-to-let mortgages, in a move...

Conveyancing fees tick up in Q1 but remain flat over past 12 months

The cost of conveyancing services rose modestly in the first quarter of 2026, although...

Bath BS introduces valuation engine to speed up mortgage decisions

Bath Building Society has launched a new property decisioning engine aimed at cutting delays...

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