Equity Release

BoMaD consider equity release as means for children to buy a home

Parents are turning to lifetime mortgages to help their children buy a home, as...

Air teams up with New Leaf Distribution

Air, the later-life lending platform, has partnered with New Leaf Distribution to bolster the...

OMS in API integration with Air Sourcing

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced a full application programming interface (API) integration with...

Royal London acquires Responsible Group

Royal London has wholly acquired the later life lending and product specialists, the Responsible...

Legal & General unveils new lifetime mortgage for over-50s

Legal & General Home Finance has introduced its Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLM), a...

More needs-based borrowing from lifetime mortgage cash releases

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has discovered a mixed picture among those who access...

One third of older homeowners see themselves as vulnerable

32% of people aged 50–79 years consider themselves vulnerable, according to a LiveMore survey...

Large variation in consumer vulnerability across key sectors

The latest data from the MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS) has revealed that firms using...

The Later Life Lending Network reveals conference and winter ball plans

The Later Life Lending and Equity Release Network, part of The Right Mortgage, has...

Advise Wise adds Early Repayment Charge period sorting feature

Advise Wise, the later life sourcing platform, has launched a new feature allowing advisers...

Managing the FCA’s later life mortgage expectations

Our sector continues to dissect September’s FCA review focused on the ‘Action needed to...

Q3 new lifetime mortgage data split between aspiration and necessary

Pure Retirement has published its analysis of its Q3 loan usage data for new...

Equity release market returns to growth

The Equity Release Council has reported that the equity release market has seen growth...

Later life sector deemed important by 84% of property professionals

A webinar poll undertaken by Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) saw 84% of property professionals...

COMMENT

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

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...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts limited company buy-to-let rates for brokers

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected limited company buy-to-let rates by up to 20...

Paragon Bank introduces limited edition 60% LTV buy-to-let products

Paragon Bank has expanded its buy-to-let range with a new tranche of 60% loan-to-value...

TwentyCi hires Nick Huntley to lead sales at TwentyEA and TwentyConvey

TwentyCi has appointed Nick Huntley as sales director for TwentyEA and TwentyConvey as the...

HSBC cuts mortgage rates by up to 34bps across core ranges

HSBC UK has reduced mortgage rates across its product range, with cuts of up...

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