Equity Release

Legal & General Home Finance adopts Optimo

Finova's decisioning engine, Optimo, has been adopted by Legal & General Home Finance to...

Countrywide Surveying Services joins Equity Release Council

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has become an...

Key: reasons to be cheerful for equity release market

Increased product innovation in the equity release market, combined with expected base rate cuts...

More2life launches ‘Flexi Payment Term’ lifetime mortgage

More2life has announced the launch of a new product, the Flexi Payment Term Lifetime...

Air extends Canada Life partnership

Air, the later life lending platform, has extended its partnership with Canada Life for...

More2life introduces automatic redemptions service

More2life has announced the launch of a new automatic redemptions service, which will be...

Key promotes Bibby to new role

Key Advice has revealed the promotion of Chris Bibby to a newly created role...

LiveMore expands sales team with new appointments

LiveMore has made two new appointments to its sales team. Nicola Palmer joins LiveMore...

Advise Wise adds online applications for Legal & General products

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of online applications submission for Legal & General...

Pure Retirement improves Classic lifetime mortgage proposition

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has made changes to its Classic range of lifetime...

Key Partnerships adds new comparison services

Key Partnerships, the equity release referral service arm at Key Group, has launched new...

Pure Retirement reintroduces higher LTVs

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has made further improvements to its Heritage range. Its Special...

Air unveils new Comprehensive Conversations Manifesto

Air has launched a new Comprehensive Conversations Manifesto to establish a new standard of...

Standard Life Home Finance to offer discounts to borrowers who commit to regular payments

UK equity release lender Standard Life Home Finance is to add to its Horizon...

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

Buyer demand stabilises but mortgage market remains cautious

The UK housing market may be showing early signs of stabilisation but mortgage brokers...

Cooling rents could ease affordability pressures for first-time buyers

Slower rental growth and improving affordability across much of the UK could provide some...

ABS 2026 review: Global and UK issues cool the market

It’s that time of the year again when the world of wholesale funding descends...

HomeOwners Alliance appoints Sarah Tucker as lead mortgage commentator

HomeOwners Alliance has partnered with property and mortgage expert Sarah Tucker, who will become...

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