Equity Release

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...

Air Academy appoints head of academy learning

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has appointed Dan Holden into the...

LiveMore Property+ offers options for borrowers with spray foam insulation

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has partnered with later life mortgage provider, LiveMore, to provide...

Reasons for equity release declines revealed

More2life has published data which highlights the top reasons cases are declined to help...

Advise Wise and Responsible Lending unveil API integration

Advise Wise has announced the integration of Responsible Lending into its platform. Advise Wise's...

Consumer Duty & later life lending

Given we are less than a month away from the implementation of the Consumer...

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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