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Key Retirement to hold Chelsea and West Ham events

Key Partnerships is to hold two events at Chelsea and West Ham to discuss...

Brightstar joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Brightstar Financial has been added to Legal & General Mortgage Club’s specialist distributor panel. Brightstar...

‘My house is my pension’ theory challenged

Prudential has reported that over 3.9 million over-55s plan to downsize to a cheaper...

“UK’s first criteria search system” launches

Knowledge Bank, which claims to be the UK’s first criteria search system, has...

OneFamily appoints funding consultant

OneFamily has appointed Denise Saber as a funding consultant. She will report to John Adams,...

Equity release competition drives down cost of borrowing

Key Retirement has reported that equity release customers are saving up to, or in...

More 2 Life appoints sales manager

More 2 Life has announced the appointment of Catherine Casey as its new sales manager. Casey...

More 2 Life achieves lending milestone

More 2 Life has announced that it has surpassed £1bn of lending, along with a...

Air Sourcing adds Mansfield’s later life offering

Equity Release Club and AIR Sourcing have announced a new relationship with the Mansfield Building...

L&G Mortgage Club outlines autumn event schedule

Legal & General Mortgage Club has published its calendar of Autumn events that focus...

Equity release ‘helps 13 people a week onto housing ladder’

Retirement Advantage estimate that in the first half of 2017, 13 first-time buyers were...

UK equity release potential ‘tops £370bn’

Research from Retirement Advantage has found that the potential wealth collectively available to over-55s...

Missed opportunity?

In 2012, when Alan was 60, a member of his family got themselves into...

Retirees emotionally attached to family home

More 2 Life research gas found that the single biggest barrier to retirees downsizing is...

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HMOs: market realities, future prospects, and the broker opportunity

The HMO sector remains one of the most dynamic parts of the private rented market, with recent data showing it’s both a significant asset...

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...

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EXCLUSIVE: Mortgage industry launches festive concert to aid homeless

A collective of leading mortgage brokerages are joining forces this festive season to raise...

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank cut product transfer window to four months

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank are reducing the length of time customers can apply...

The Leeds cuts mortgage rates and lowers barriers for first-time buyers

Leeds Building Society has announced a raft of mortgage rate reductions of up to...

Accord widens access for those on Universal Credit and without indefinite leave to remain

Accord Mortgages has relaxed key elements of its lending criteria in a move it...