Equity Release

Women have “worrying lack” of pension wealth

1.5 million widows in the UK aged 55 and over say they have lost...

LV= changes lifetime mortgage fee structure

LV= is making changes to the fee structure on its Drawdown+ and Lump Sum+...

Brilliant Solutions adds LV= to panel

Brilliant Solutions' members now have access to LV= lifetime mortgage products. With access to LV=...

Age Partnership appoints new executive director of partnerships

Darren Dicks has been appointed as executive director of Age Partnership's partnership division. Dicks (pictured), who...

Just Group brings medical underwriting to later life lending

Just Group is offering personalised interest rate and LTV options across its Just For...

PMS Mortgage Club and Key Group launch Later Life Solutions

PMS Mortgage Club has partnered with Key Group to launch Later Life Solutions, a...

Standard Life partners with Key to launch lifetime mortgages

Standard Life has entered into a strategic agreement with Key Group, which will launch...

Covid makes people seek care home alternatives

The Covid-19 pandemic has left millions of people considering alternative long-term care options to...

Equity Release Supermarket expands into new offices

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has relocated its office premises to the North West’s largest...

LGHF launches Premier Lifetime Mortgage to property millionaires

The number of wards in England & Wales with an average house price of...

Aviva joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the appointment of Aviva to its lender...

Paradigm partners with HUB Financial Solutions

Paradigm Mortgage Services has entered into a referral partnership with HUB Financial Solutions to...

Retirees take advantage of the Stamp Duty holiday

Over-55s keen to take advantage of the Stamp Duty Holiday drove There has been...

Increased number of over-60s thinking about care costs

37% of adults in the UK over the age of 60 say they would...

COMMENT

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

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Key urges wider later life lending referrals in response to FCA market study

Key Equity Release has welcomed the FCA’s later life mortgage market study, arguing that...

Mortgage Brain sets out AI governance framework amid data security concerns

Mortgage Brain has launched an AI charter aimed at addressing growing concerns over data...

VAS appoints head of IT and business systems

Valuation panel management firm VAS has appointed Lewis Birdsworth as head of IT and...

Click2Check adds ID verification to adviser compliance platform

Click2Check has added an identity verification service to its digital compliance platform, aimed at...

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