Equity Release

Property wealth used for diverse range of retirement reasons

Older homeowners are tapping in to property wealth to fund a diverse range of...

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...
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COMMENT

Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

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Appointments

TAB promotes Bonner to chief risk officer

Specialist lender TAB has appointed Jack Bonner as chief risk officer as it continues...
Building Societies

Skipton BS lowers residential rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...
News

AMI refreshes brand to reflect advice, mortgages and insurance focus

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has launched a brand refresh intended to reflect its...
News

IMLA guide explains why fixed mortgage rates can rise before Bank Rate moves

IMLA has published a report and five-minute guide to help advisers explain how swap...

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