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Canada Life cuts Lifestyle Options rates

Canada Life has reduced rates on three of the products in its Lifestyle Options...

Pure Retirement revamps Heritage criteria

Pure Retirement has made changes to its Heritage range criteria, following increasing interest in...

Later life lending added to SmartrCriteria

Legal & General Mortgage Club has revealed that later life lending has been added...

Canada Life outlines first workshop series for 2020

Canada Life Home Finance has published details of its first series of workshops in...

AIR Group reveals later life lending award categories

AIR Group has announced the categories for its inaugural Air Awards which will take place...

Knowledge Bank sees continuing mortgage market volatility

Knowledge Bank's latest monthly analysis of brokers’ criteria searches has revealed a number of surprising...

Three new business development hires for Hodge

Hodge has appointed a national account manager for the south of England, and two...

More 2 Life hits £3bn in loans under management

More 2 Life now has £3 billion worth of loans under management, after a...

Record low rates for equity release and RIO products

Defaqto analysis has found that equity release products are now being offered at record...

Bubble & Squeak

One of the most popular items in our house over Christmas is ‘Bob’s Bubble...

Dean Mirfin quits day-to-day Key Group role

Following nearly 22 years at Key Group, Dean Mirfin, chief product officer at Key...

October rise in first-time buyer completions

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,260 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Equity Release Summit to be held in March

Registration is open for next year’s inaugural Equity Release Summit, which is being organised...

Key Group appoints group B2B distribution director

Key Group has promoted Russell Warwick, formerly strategy director) to group B2B distribution director. Warwick...

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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...