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‘Best Buy’ lifetime mortgage rate unveiled by Responsible Lending

Responsible Lending has introduced a  lifetime mortgage at 2.78% AER. The new rate was released...

Legal & General Home Finance appoints distribution director

Legal & General has appointed Dave Stratton as distribution director within its home finance...

LLA Ambassador pair fund fee suspension

Air Later Life Academy (LLA) is suspending its monthly membership fees for firms during...

New board directors at the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has announced the appointment of new directors, following the latest...

Later life lending sector ended 2019 on a high

The Spring 2020 Market Report from the Equity Release Council has revealed that equity...

Air Group unveils new version of platform

Answers in Retirement Group (Air Group) has launched a new version of its Air Sourcing...

Hodge to host later life lending webinars

Hodge is introducing a series of webinars aimed at brokers and IFAs who are...

MCI Club offers lifetime mortgages with OneFamily partnership

MCI Mortgage Club has appointed OneFamily to its lender panel, extending its range of...

More 2 Life appoints new national sales manager and BDM

Equity release lender More 2 Life has appointed Fran Green as national sales manager...

More 2 Life creates head of servicing role

Equity release lender More 2 Life has created a new head of servicing role...

Pure Retirement introduces desktop valuations for lifetime mortgages

Pure Retirement is offering desktop valuation solutions for the majority of its lifetime mortgage...

Equity Release Supermarket launches video chat

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has announced the launch of new online video capability to provide...

Equity Release Council makes temporary change to legal advice rules

The Equity Release Council has temporarily changed the requirement for equity release customers to...

More 2 Life unveils semi-automated valuations

More 2 Life has become the first volume lender the equity release sector to introduce...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...