Equity Release

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...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

SortRefer marks 17 years with record month for instructions and completions

SortRefer has marked its 17th anniversary after reporting its strongest monthly performance to date...

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates on selected new business deals

The Mortgage Works is cutting selected buy-to-let and let-to-buy rates by up to 0.20...

Primis promotes three in push to expand recruitment and regional broker support

Primis has promoted three senior executives as it seeks to recruit more adviser firms...

Santander cuts higher LTV rates for first-time buyers and home movers

Santander is cutting selected fixed mortgage rates across its first-time buyer, home mover and...

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