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Air LLA receives training endorsement

Air Later Life Academy's (LLA) training programme has been endorsed by The London Institute...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils specialist referral service

Impact Specialist Finance has launched a referral service for its broker partners. The service can...

Key Group appoints new non-exec director

Key Group has appointed Gillian Kent as non-executive director. Kent (pictured) has almost 30 years...

Pure Retirement unveils YouTube channel

Pure Retirement has launched a customer-facing YouTube channel. It is designed to provide explainer video...

More 2 Life joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added later life lender More 2 Life to its panel. Member firms of the...

Responsible Equity Release joins SmartrRefer panel

Responsible Equity Release has been added to SmartrRefer, Legal & General Mortgage Club’s approved...

L&G introduces downsizing protection feature to lifetime mortgage offering

Legal & General Home Finance has unveiled a Downsizing Protection feature across its lifetime...

Credit card borrowing by over-55s rises significantly

The proportion of over-55s who have been in debt in the last five years...

Key Partnerships agrees referral deal with domiciliary care provider

Key Partnerships has announced an exclusive collaboration with Bluebird Care, a national domiciliary care...

L&G secures FCA approval for lifetime mortgage advice business

Legal & General has secured approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to launch...

Rebrand for Key Retirement Group

Key Retirement Group has rebranded as Key Group. The group aims to be the UK’s...

Advisers expect equity release to be mainstream within a decade

61% of advisers think it is “likely or more likely” equity release will become...

Teddy Nyahasha to become OneFamily CEO

OneFamily chief executive Simon Markey will be stepping down after seven years. He will be...

Women feel less prepared for retirement

56% of women feel unprepared for retirement, with almost the same proportion of women...

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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...