Equity Release

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...

New applications record for More 2 Life

Equity release lender More 2 Life has beaten its previous record for the number of applications processed...

18 FTBs a week being helped via equity release

Retirement Advantage has estimated that 18 first time buyers a week took a step...

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

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...

Finova opens Manchester office as AI-led growth creates 50 jobs

Finova has opened a new office in Manchester, creating more than 50 roles as...

The Mansfield launches broker portal to speed complex case processing

Mansfield Building Society has launched a new mortgage broker portal as it looks to...

Barclays cuts rates across more than 20 mortgage products

Barclays is cutting rates across more than 20 residential mortgage products from Wednesday 22...

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