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Brokers increasingly searching for where lenders will lend

Lending in Wales and Scotland were amongst top five criteria searches for the first...

New lifetime mortgage from Canada Life

Canada Life Home Finance has launched Capital Select Platinum Plus, which it says offers...

Record start to the year for Equity Release Supermarket

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has seen a 31% growth in lending from Q1 2018...

Just Group CEO quits

Just Group plc has announced that after nine years with the group, Rodney Cook...

Equity release market records its fastest ever start to a year

The Equity Release Council has reported that the first quarter of 2019 was the...

Equity Release Council to introduce new competency framework

The Equity Release Council unveiled a series of initiatives at its Annual General Meeting (AGM)...

AIR Group to hold second later life adviser conference

AIR Group's second annual National Later Life Adviser Conference, in association with the Equity...

New BDM at More 2 Life

Equity release lender More 2 Life has appointed Sanjay Gadhia as a business development manager (BDM)...

Later life lending expansion “well timed”

New research from the Ipswich Building Society has found that one in 10 anticipate...

New Saffron RIO deal for L&G Mortgage Club

The Saffron Building Society has launched a Retirement Interest Only (RIO) Mortgage exclusively through...

Later life care funding worrying families

Families are increasingly concerned with how to fund care in later life for elderly...

More 2 Life unveils new Capital Choice Lite products

More 2 Life has announced the launch of its ‘Capital Choice Lite’ plans, offering...

Canada Life to hold equity release lead generation workshops

Canada Life Home Finance is to run a new series set of events in...

Equity release borrower choice continues to expand

Key Partnerships has reported that equity release lenders now offer 233 plan options across...

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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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Mortgage brokers bullish on rate cuts

More than half of mortgage brokers (52%) say they expect at least two cuts...

Former Nikko chief warns CGT on homes would punish owners

A leading City figure has warned that imposing capital gains tax (CGT) on primary...

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...