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Equity release growth driven by gifting

Key Retirement has found that gifting is continuing to drive expansion in the equity...

SimplyBiz Group reveals Advice Show line up

SimplyBiz Group is to host a mortgage, general insurance and protection focussed online broadcast of...

One-third of adults in drawdown have never invested before

32% of people using drawdown to fund their retirement have no investment experience, yet...

Retirement Advantage adds new exam workshop dates

Retirement income provider Retirement Advantage is to add more Equity Release Exam Workshop dates...

Retirement Advantage launches new high net worth equity release product

Retirement Advantage has launched a new equity release product aimed at high net worth...

National Later Life Conference lineup revealed

Answers in Retirement has published the speaker line-up for June's inaugural National Later Life Conference. The event...

Paradigm Mortgage Services to hold later life events in June

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced a series of later life lending events for advisers which...

More 2 Life appoints director of funding and product development

Equity release lender More 2 Life has appointed Roland Steere as director of funding and...

KR Group appoints PR & public affairs director

Key Retirement Group has appointed Lee Blackwell as director of public relations and public...

Equity release lending more than doubles in two years

The Equity Release Council has reported that first-quarter lending activity in the equity release...

Underwriting behind OneFamily’s lifetime mortgage approval rate

OneFamily has revealed that it now approves nine out of 10 applications for lifetime...

Lawyers seeing increase in demand for later life planning

Key Partnerships' research has found that lawyers are increasingly seeing a switch to demand...

Pure Retirement unveils new case tracker for advisers

Pure Retirement has made change to its online case tracking tool for advisers. Launched just...

Key Retirement Group appoints chief digital officer

Key Retirement Group has appointed Dave Johnson as chief digital officer. Prior to joining KR...

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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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More than half of landlords plan portfolio expansion

More than half of buy-to-let landlords intend to grow their portfolios in the coming...

Phoebus secures ISO recertification to bolster SaaS security resilience

Phoebus has renewed its ISO 27001 accreditation, achieving recertification to the updated 2022 standard...

Homes priced too high take twice as long to sell

Homes listed above market value take more than twice as long to sell, Zoopla...

Computershare and The DPS extend support to youth homelessness charity

Computershare Loan Services and The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) have made their fifth...