Equity Release

Handling the time pressures within the later life advice space

Working under pressure is something that later life advisers, and indeed everyone in the...

Standard Life Home Finance partners with St. James’s Place

Standard Life Home Finance has announced a strategic partnership with St. James’s Place, increasing...

Positive Lending unveils new later life lending solutions

Positive Lending is bolstering its suite of property financial solutions with a range of...

Age Partnership teams up with Biscuit Tin

Equity release advisory firm Age Partnership has partnered with digital legacy business, Biscuit Tin. The...

Pure Retirement partners with Keylu

Pure Retirement has revealed its new partnership with Keylu, enabling advisers to support their...

More2life publishes new offer condition guide

Equity release lender more2life has expanded its library of educational resources with a new...

Advise Wise adds new document upload feature

Advise Wise Platform has introduced a new feature allowing advisers to upload documents to...

Q3 sees record number of new equity release plans

The Equity Release Council (ERC) has revealed that homeowners aged 55+ took out a...

Pure Retirement backs call for career development for over 50s

A report highlighting the benefits of embracing an older workforce has earned the support...

75% of over-55s ignorant of green mortgages

Research commissioned by equity release advisory firm Age Partnership has found that 80% of...

OneFamily withdraws lifetime mortgages products

OneFamily Lifetime Mortgages is temporarily withdrawing its products from new business, citing recent instability...

Standard Life Home Finance joins Mortgage Advice Bureau panel

Standard Life Home Finance has joined the Mortgage Advice Bureau later life lender panel....

Hodge makes board appointment

Hodge has strengthened its board with the appointment of a new senior independent director. Penny...

When later life clients don’t want to keep it in the family

"You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re...

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,...

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Skipton loses former Connells chief’s discrimination case

Skipton Group Holdings and Connells have lost an employment tribunal case brought by former...

IMLA supports flexible mortgage rules but says housing supply remains key

Mortgage lenders have backed proposals to give first-time buyers and other underserved borrowers greater...

Mortgage borrowing jumps to £7.7bn

Net mortgage borrowing more than doubled to £7.7bn in June, up from £3.3bn in...

AMI says mortgage rule reforms must keep advice at their core

Proposals to give lenders greater flexibility must be supported by mortgage advice if they...

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