Equity Release

Legal & General Home Finance in API integration with Advise Wise Platform

Legal & General Home Finance has launched an Application Programming Interface (API) link with...

Pure Retirement joins IMLA

Pure Retirement has become the latest lender to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association...

Smart Money People reveal firms with highest broker-ranked BDMs

Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has found that InterBay and Landbay...

Legal & General issues new lifetime mortgage pricing

Legal & General Home Finance has unveiled a new pricing approach for its lifetime...

In later life lending, labels matter

Ours is an industry where language matters. Where what we say to each other...

Air Academy adds new LIBF-accredited affordability module

Air Academy, the later-life lending learning platform, has introduced a new affordability module. The module...

Over 5,000 customers using Pure Retirement account platform

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has reported that over 5,000 customers register and interact...

LiveMore cuts over-50s’ mortgage rates

LiveMore has further reduced mortgage rates across its entire range of products by up...

Hodge improves residential rate switch proc fees

Specialist lender, Hodge, has announced a rise in its procuration fees for its broker...

Pure Retirement joins Criterion’s Equity Release Governance Group

Pure Retirement has become the latest firm to become a member of Criterion’s Equity...

Pure Retirement improves Heritage and Heritage Freedom ranges

Pure Retirement has announced further LTV reintroductions and criteria improvements across its Heritage range,...

AI is not the answer for later life lending

Earlier this year, the government held a conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Rishi...

Concerns surrounding access to equity release fall

While the over-45s are less concerned about equity release in general, there are significant...

Fixed rates most important single feature to lifetime mortgage borrowers

Fixed interest rates are the most important feature to lifetime mortgage customers, with 37%...
1...212223...132Page 22 of 132

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...

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

Advice

Buyer demand stabilises but mortgage market remains cautious

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

HomeOwners Alliance appoints Sarah Tucker as lead mortgage commentator

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

PROFILES