Equity Release

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...

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. ...

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,...

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Mortgage Magic launches Secure Portal through Microsoft Windows Store

Mortgage Magic has made its Secure Portal available through the Microsoft Windows Store, with...

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...

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