Equity Release

Key’s new PTLTM offers higher LTVs to equity release customers

Key Later Life Finance has added a new Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLTM) into...

Middle classes increasingly using equity release

Equity release is increasingly being explored by the middle classes when looking at the...

Aviva Equity Release becomes Air Select Ambassador

Air has announced that Aviva will be joining its group of Air Select Ambassadors...

Clearing existing mortgage still top reason for releasing equity

Clearing an existing mortgage remains the top motivation for releasing equity (41%) for the...

Comentis introduces equity release mental capacity assessment

Comentis, the duty of care assessment company, has launched a new mental capacity assessment...

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...

COMMENT

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

Latest news

Specialist lenders drive semi-commercial market towards £1bn

Britain's semi-commercial mortgage market is on course to exceed £1 billion of annual lending...

Equity Release Council names John Godfrey as chair

John Godfrey, the former head of the No 10 policy unit, has been appointed...

Monmouthshire app brings in new generation of customers

Seven in 10 customers registered for Monmouthshire Building Society's app had not previously banked...

Clydesdale to raise selected residential product transfer rates

Clydesdale is to increase selected residential product transfer rates by up to 0.23%. The changes...

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