Equity Release

Air Group breaks £1bn distribution barrier

Air Group has reported that over £1 billion of later life lending was placed...

Pure Retirement revamps intermediary sales team

Pure Retirement has expanded its intermediary sales team, providing its advisers with access to support...

Covid made it harder to spot vulnerable customers

More2life has reported that half of advisers say it is harder to identify vulnerable...

Key Group appoints national account manager

Key Group, the specialist provider of over-55s' financial solutions, has appointed Alistair Morrison as...

Key: size of withdrawals driving equity release market

A record £4.4 billion in property wealth was released in 2021, according to data...

Second charges helping businesses to capital raise

Business owners are using second charge mortgages to raise capital as the Omicron variant...

22% of workers expect to use home to fund retirement

Research from Legal & General Home Finance (LGHF) has found that 22% of people...

Key to embed AI into its customer service

Key has partnered with speech analytics platform Aveni.ai to add artificial intelligence to its...

22% of customers don’t discuss equity release with family

71% of customers seeking equity release advice with immediate family said they had discussed...

Standard Life Home Finance joins Equity Release Council

Standard Life Home Finance has joined the Equity Release Council following the recent launch...

Hodge issues Tired of Retirement white paper

Hodge has released a detailed report into the attitudes of those over 50 towards...

Finova powering Standard Life’s equity release entrance

Finova has been selected to provide the software that will power Standard Life Home...

7.5 million over-55s need home adaptation for care needs

New research from Key indicates that 7.5 million older people will be looking to...

Pure Retirement launches new resources with Asset TV

Pure Retirement has introduced a new Brand Health Check Guide in collaboration with Asset...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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