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Air Later Life Academy partners with Care Box

Air Later Life Academy (LLA) has announced a new relationship with long-term care specialists Care Box. Care...

OneFamily relaunches ‘Super LTV’ lifetime mortgage

OneFamily has reintroduced its lifetime mortgage for higher loans to value (LTVs). The Super LTV...

Equity Release Council updates standards following consultation

The Equity Release Council has launched its updated industry standards following a wide consultation among...

Responsible Life eyes half a billion pound target

Responsible Life says it is set to advise on half a billion pounds worth...

The Nottingham joins Air Mortgage Club panel

Air Mortgage Club has announced the addition of the Nottingham Building Society to its...

Q&A: Simon Thompson, CEO of Key Group

BestAdvice (BA): Why is Key Group focussing on the later life lending market? You’ve...

Half of homeowners who use equity release pay off mortgages

49% of equity release customers in the third quarter of 2019 used it to pay...

Expansion in the equity release market continues

The Equity Release Council has revealed that nearly £11 million of property wealth was unlocked...

Equity Release Supermarket sees above-industry average uplift

Equity Release Supermarket has reported that its applications to lenders rose by 10%, and...

Key Partnerships becomes SmartrRefer partner

Equity release referral service Key Partnerships has been selected as one of SmartrRefer partners,...

OneFamily joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added lifetime mortgage provider, OneFamily to its provider panel. Paradigm members...

Canada Life makes additional rate cuts on lifetime mortgage products

Canada Life has reduced the rates on six of its lifetime mortgage products. Four products...

Number of over-65s living alone up 15% over past 10 years

The Equity Release Council has reported that the total number of over-65s living alone...

Two new distribution services unveiled by Key

Equity release adviser Key has revealed a new distribution strategy, with a refreshed ‘whole...

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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...