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Broker Conveyancing partners for equity release service

Broker Conveyancing has launched a new service for advisers seeking specialist conveyancing advice for their...

Video: Canada Life, Key & Monument FS discuss later life opportunities for brokers

Discussing these issues are: Will Hale, CEO, Key Paul Jeal, director, Monument Financial Solutions ...

Over-65s own property wealth worth £1.096 trillion

Retired homeowners have seen their property wealth rise by over £1,000 in the past...

44% of older homeowners prepared to downsize for foreign holiday

Latest research from SunLife has found that nearly half of homeowners over 55 would...

Later life advisers should assess clients’ vulnerability

Advisers have a duty of care to assess the potential vulnerability of later life...

OneFamily appoints BDM for the North West

OneFamily has appointed Donna Johnson as a business development manager (BDM) in its adviser...

Confidence in the specialist lending market continues to rise

Masthaven Bank's latest Broker Beat report has found that 73% of intermediaries working in...

The Marsden makes widespread fixed rate cuts

The Marsden Building Society has reduced fixed rate mortgages across its full product range...

Rebrand for Air Group businesses

Answers in Retirement Group has announced a rebranding of all businesses. The rebranding means...

Canada Life unveils online customer hub

Canada Life has introduced a hub on its website to help existing mortgage customers with...

Later life lending market to double in a decade

The later life lending market is set to almost double in size over the...

Lifetime mortgages rise in popularity for women

Canada Life has claimed that recent trend data suggest a growing demand for lifetime...

OneFamily expands lifetime mortgage support teams

OneFamily has added two new underwriters and three mortgage processors to its lifetime mortgage...

The Newbury BS joins Equity Release Club panel

The Newbury Building Society has become the latest lender to join the Equity Release...

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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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The Swansea renews sponsorship of Swansea RFC for 2025/26

Swansea Building Society has renewed its sponsorship of Swansea RFC for the 2025/26 season,...

HSBC cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let offerings

HSBC UK has announced a wide set of rate reductions across its residential and...

Broka joins NACFB as official partner

Broka, the sourcing platform for bridging and development finance, has joined the National Association...

Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...