Equity Release

Canada Life adds new Lifestyle Select products

Canada Life is improving its Lifestyle Select home finance product range, by introducing two...

Advise Wise adds new legal hub and allows direct legal instruction

Advise Wise has unveiled a ‘Direct Instruction’ feature enabling advisers to instruct solicitors directly...

Attitudes changing to secured debt in retirement

45% of mortgaged homeowners under the age of 40 made it not the property...

Advisers and later life clients all want family involvement

Later life advisers and clients are aligned when it comes to the importance of...

Advisers want later life clients re-educated by industry

Advisers operating in the later life lending sector think the most important priority for...

Later life lending demand only going in one direction

At the time of year, we in the industry tend to get asked what...

Hodge appoints new business development manager

Hodge has appointed Hema Patel as the new business development manager for the north...

Covid causing over-50s to want to live in current home for life

76% of over 50s say they are now more likely to stay in their...

Four-fifths of advisers expect 2022 equity release market growth

80% of equity release advisers are confident that the market will grow in 2022,...

Fluent Money Group refreshes brand and website

North-West based form Fluent Money Group has launched its new website, consolidating its six...

Trade bodies launch later life lending factsheet

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI), Building Societies Association (BSA), Equity Release Council (ERC),...

Majority’s property wealth more than their pension pot value

Legal & General Home Finance (LGHF) has analysed median local house price data from...

OneFamily refreshes Super LTV lifetime mortgage

OneFamily is increasing its loan to value (LTV) ratios by 0.5% on its Super LTV...

Pure Retirement improves Sovereign lifetime mortgage proposition

Pure Retirement has made changes to its Sovereign range of lifetime mortgages. The range introduces...
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COMMENT

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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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Homeowners delay energy upgrades amid confusion over EPC ratings

More than two-fifths of UK homeowners have delayed or are considering delaying energy-efficiency improvements,...
completions

Lengthy completions put mortgage offers under pressure

Homebuyers face an average five-month wait between agreeing a sale and completing, increasing the...
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Insured expats still face barriers to healthcare

More than half of insured expatriates have delayed or gone without necessary healthcare because...
Mortgages

Mortgage lending rebounds but book growth lags

UK mortgage gross lending increased by more than a fifth during 2025, although substantially...

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