Equity Release

Air unveils new brand and proposition

Air has revealed its new brand and purpose at its National Later Life Adviser...

TMA Club teams up with Standard Life Home Finance

TMA Club has launched a new partnership with Standard Life Home Finance, bringing its...

Changes in equity release customers’ needs and attitudes

Equity release funded an estimated £3 billion in retirement spending last year, according to...

Cost of living crisis showing in equity release applications

14% of Canada Life's equity release applications in Q1 were from customers looking to...

12% of retirees still have mortgage debt

Research from pensions and retirement specialist LV= highlights how millions of people are retiring...

OneFamily announces new non-executive director

OneFamily has revealed that Melanie Hind will be joining its board as a non-executive...

Let’s improve service in the later life lending market

Delivering quality customer service will always be a top priority in the later life...

Equity Release Supermarket welcomes two new advisers

Equity release advisory service, Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), has appointed two new advisers. With...

Air Sourcing launches borrowing forecast and rebroke tools

Air Sourcing has launched a new borrowing forecast tool and rebroke tool that is...

Standard Life Home Finance expands flexible lifetime offering

Standard Life Home Finance has added two new loan to value (LTV) products to...

More2life appoints director of manufacturing and adviser propositions

Equity release lender more2life has announced the appointment of Les Pick to the newly...

21% increase in equity release plan sales in Q1

Equity release adviser Key Later Life Finance has found that older homeowners released an...

Londoners most likely to consider downsizing to fund retirement

19% of people plan to downsize in retirement, according to Hargreaves Lansdown. Just 40% have...

Standard Life Home Finance partners with PRIMIS

Standard Life Home Finance has launched a new partnership with PRIMIS Mortgage Network, which...

COMMENT

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

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...

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Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...

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...

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