Equity Release

Legal & General Home Finance adds low LTV variants to lifetime mortgage range

Legal & General Home Finance has revised its lifetime mortgage range following adviser feedback. These...

StepChange Financial Solutions adopts finova CRM platform

Finova has announced that its CRM platform will be adopted by StepChange Financial Solutions,...

Advise Wise reveals API Integration with Aviva

Advise Wise has announced its API integration with later life lender Aviva. Advisers using the...

More2life widens Flexi-Choice Plan distribution

More2life has expanded the distribution footprint of its Flexi-Choice equity release plan. This will see...

Aviva adopts finova’s originations platform

Finova has announced that its Apprivo² core banking originations platform has been chosen by...

LiveMore adds lifetime mortgages to offering

LiveMore has expanded its product offering to include equity release mortgages. The lifetime mortgage joins...

L&G: property wealth allows people to stay in their ‘forever homes’

New data from Legal & General Home Finance indicates that home improvements remain the...

Air unveils white label calculator

Air has launched a new retained equity and repayments calculator to help advisers illustrate...

Equity release adviser’s TV ad banned

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a television ad from Age Partnership after...

MBE reveals London speakers and seminar programme

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that Rob Elder from the Bank of England...

You can only advise on the later life market as it stands now

Moving swiftly past the half-way point of the year, provides us with six months...

Advise Wise adds EPC sourcing features

Advise Wise, an intermediary later life sourcing platform, has added new features designed to...

Families now much more likely to be involved in equity release conversations

The Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis have impacted how open families...

Legal & General Home Finance improves lifetime mortgage repayment options

Legal & General Home Finance has enhanced its Optional Partial Repayments feature on its...

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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