Equity Release

Key Group creates new director role

Key Group has promoted Caroline Righton, formerly head of commercial finance for more2life, to...

TMA expands later life lending proposition

TMA Club has added Access Equity Release and Knight Frank Finance as equity release referral...

Age Partnership Group appoints network managing director

Age Partnership has appointed Dan Baines as managing director of Equity Release Associates (ERA),...

Pure Retirement launches new servicing resources

Pure Retirement has introduced new customer-facing literature, designed to keep its account holders informed...

Only half of over-55s say their home isn’t suitable for future care

A new report has found that the majority of over 55s believe their current...

New home finance hire for Canada Life

Canada Life has appointed Jon Dunckley to the new role of proposition development manager...

The Later Life Lending Network expands team

The Right Mortgage's equity release proposition, The Later Life Lending Network, has added Adrian...

Canada Life improves equity release offering

Canada Life has made changes to all its Capital Select Options for home finance...

Over 50s to benefit from latest house price moves

Over 50s finance provider SunLife says the fact that house prices have risen for...

Advise Wise begins ‘Ask Jane’ legal month

Advise Wise has launched its ‘Ask Jane legal month’ from today (1 October), with...

Advisers want more resource to deal with vulnerability

Equity release lender more2life has published a report examining into adviser and consumer attitudes...

Royal London moves into equity release space

Royal London has teamed up with later life mortgage adviser, Responsible Life, to enter...

Key Partnerships introduces new retirement funding tool

Equity release referral service, Key Partnerships, has launch its new Retirement Funding Tool, which it...

Retirement market changing due to fragmentation

Canada Life has highlighted two 'retirement journeys' that are increasing dramatically among consumers and...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

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...

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Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...

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