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Equity Release
Legal & General Home Finance adopts Optimo
Finova's decisioning engine, Optimo, has been adopted by Legal & General Home Finance to...
22 February 2024
Countrywide Surveying Services joins Equity Release Council
Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has become an...
22 February 2024
Key: reasons to be cheerful for equity release market
Increased product innovation in the equity release market, combined with expected base rate cuts...
21 February 2024
More2life launches ‘Flexi Payment Term’ lifetime mortgage
More2life has announced the launch of a new product, the Flexi Payment Term Lifetime...
20 February 2024
Air extends Canada Life partnership
Air, the later life lending platform, has extended its partnership with Canada Life for...
18 February 2024
More2life introduces automatic redemptions service
More2life has announced the launch of a new automatic redemptions service, which will be...
15 February 2024
Key promotes Bibby to new role
Key Advice has revealed the promotion of Chris Bibby to a newly created role...
15 February 2024
LiveMore expands sales team with new appointments
LiveMore has made two new appointments to its sales team. Nicola Palmer joins LiveMore...
15 February 2024
Advise Wise adds online applications for Legal & General products
Advise Wise has announced the introduction of online applications submission for Legal & General...
13 February 2024
Pure Retirement improves Classic lifetime mortgage proposition
Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has made changes to its Classic range of lifetime...
13 February 2024
Key Partnerships adds new comparison services
Key Partnerships, the equity release referral service arm at Key Group, has launched new...
12 February 2024
Pure Retirement reintroduces higher LTVs
Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has made further improvements to its Heritage range. Its Special...
12 February 2024
Air unveils new Comprehensive Conversations Manifesto
Air has launched a new Comprehensive Conversations Manifesto to establish a new standard of...
7 February 2024
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...
5 February 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
Latest news
Advice
Buyer demand stabilises but mortgage market remains cautious
The UK housing market may be showing early signs of stabilisation but mortgage brokers...
11 June 2026
First-time buyers
Cooling rents could ease affordability pressures for first-time buyers
Slower rental growth and improving affordability across much of the UK could provide some...
11 June 2026
funding
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...
11 June 2026
News
HomeOwners Alliance appoints Sarah Tucker as lead mortgage commentator
HomeOwners Alliance has partnered with property and mortgage expert Sarah Tucker, who will become...
11 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