Equity Release

Adviser claims most equity release calculators “misleading”

Latest findings from Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), an independent equity release advisory service, suggests...

Responsible Lending expands access to Royal London equity release range

The range of lifetime mortgage products delivered by Responsible Lending in partnership with Royal...

Advise Wise provides new contact directory

Advise Wise has announced the launch of its newest platform feature, the Contacts Directory....

LiveMore offers automated DIP

LiveMore has developed a new mortgage origination platform in-house, incorporating a Decision in Principle...

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...

COMMENT

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,...

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Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

Family BS strengthens intermediary team with BDM appointment

Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern...

Buckinghamshire cuts rates across credit repair ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced selected rates across its Credit Revive and Credit Restore...

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