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The Nationwide to offer dedicated advice for later life lending

The Nationwide Building Society has launched a new range of three later life mortgage...

L&G “explores” in-house lifetime mortgage advice

Legal & General says it is exploring its options with regard to providing financial...

TMA expands equity release panel

TMA Club has added lifetime mortgage provider, OneFamily, to its equity release panel. Members of...

Shift in broker criteria searches in March

Knowledge Bank's latest criteria activity tracker has shown a shift in broker searches regarding...

31% tax burden for retired households

New research has established that retired households pay out the equivalent of 31% of...

Lifetime mortgage growth continues unabated

The Equity Release Council’s Spring 2019 Market Report has found that over the course...

Later Life Lending Network partners with AIR Group

The Later Life Lending Network has announced a partnership with Answers in Retirement Group (AIR...

Over-55s unaware that equity release is available to mortgage borrowers

Research from SunLife has revealed that two-thirds of over 55s don’t know that they...

Poynton Law unveils equity release case tracking for intermediaries

Poynton Law has launched its new equity release case tracking system to intermediaries. The system...

Pure Retirement now servicing over £1bn in loans

Pure Retirement has revealed that it is now servicing over £1bn of loans, for...

Lifetime mortgage borrowers increasingly making monthly repayments

Growing numbers of homeowners with a lifetime mortgage are making monthly payments on their...

Head of sales for Key Direct appointed

Equity release adviser Key has appointed Kyle Lilford as head of sales for Key...

Canada Life introduces new lifetime mortgage option

Canada Life Home Finance has unveiled Capital Select Lite, which provides homeowners with the...

LV= plans to end friendly society status

Mutual insurance, retirement and investment group LV= plans to convert to a company limited...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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