Equity Release

TMA adds More 2 Life to later life lending panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of equity release lender, More 2 Life, to...

Average equity release rates fall below 5% for first time

£1.85bn in housing wealth was unlocked in the first half of 2019 by homeowners...

Responsive Lending unveils lifetime mortgage at 2.82%

Lifetime mortgage provider Responsible Lending has released what it is hailing as the UK’s...

Buy-to-lets being sold by the retired to fund FTBs

Equity release adviser Key has revealed that retired homeowners are increasingly considering cashing in...

Student lending boosted by Bank of Gran and Grandad

35% of grandparents – around 4.9 million people - have already helped or are...

2019 FSE London seminar programme revealed

Front Events, organisers of Financial Services Expo (FSE) London, has published the full seminar...

Canada Life to host extra lead generation workshops

Canada Life Home Finance is running an additional series of its lead generation workshops. Taking place...

More 2 Life unveils new lump sum and drawdown products

More 2 Life has introduced two new products to its equity release offering. The lender’s...

HLPartnership’s later life lending seminars now open to all advisers

HLPartnership has announced new dates and venues in September for its later life lending seminars. They...

Canada Life equity release workshops to support qualified advisers

Canada Life Home Finance is to hold two additional workshops for equity release-qualified financial...

Over-55s’ generosity causing uncertain retirement

New research has shown the thousands of over-55s are gifting money as part of...

Key Partnerships confirms referral deal with John Charcol

Key Partnerships, the equity release referral service for equity release specialist Key, has announced...

Nationwide to offer RIO mortgages to wider market

The Nationwide Building Society has unveiled a comprehensive package of later life mortgage options...

Age Partnership offers sub-3% fixed equity release rate

Equity release adviser Age Partnership has secured exclusive access to what it claims is...

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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...