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Later Life Lending Network to go Great Gatsby with gala dinner

The Later Life Lending Network has revealed details of its Annual Conference, which will...

Advise Wise partners with Comentis for vulnerability support

Advise Wise is to team up with Comentis, the duty of care assessment company,...

Pure Retirement appoints new NED to board

Pure Retirement has announced the appointment of its new non-executive director (NED), Phillip McLelland. McLelland...

More2life adds rewards discount to Apex product

More2life has launched its Apex Interest Reward product, a lifetime mortgage which benefits those...

Access Financial Services hires later life chief

Access Financial Services has appointed Adrian Brewer to the new position of head of...

Sizeable rise in new lifetime mortgage customers’ average property value

There have been annual and quarterly increases in the average property value among new...

Any Budget pension changes could shift balance to equity release

There is a growing need to shift retirement planning to include wider considerations of...

Older borrowers won’t all be served by a mainstream-only approach

When it comes to the mortgage borrowing public in the UK, the numbers tend...

Pure Retirement reveals profile of average new equity release customer

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has analysed its own data for the third quarter...

UK adults expect to live to 85

Canada Life has released its inaugural Life100+ report, the first in a series of...

Standard Life Home Finance introduces weekly later life lending broker clinics

Standard Life Home Finance has announced the launch of a new series of online...

More2life lowers Maxi lifetime mortgage ERCs

More2life has reduced the early repayment charges (ERCs) on its Maxi range of lifetime...

LiveMore cuts lifetime rates

LiveMore has reduced rates on its lifetime mortgages. LiveMore’s Lifetime Mortgage – Lite pricing...

Equity Release Council to hold later life summit with AMI

The Equity Release Council is launching the Later Life Lending Summit in collaboration with...

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Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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HLPartnership adds Handelsbanken to lender panel

HLPartnership has added Handelsbanken to its lender panel as part of its ongoing strategy...

FCA warns consumers over ineffective credit builder products

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that many credit builder products fail to...

Affordability pressures deepen in Wales and North East as rental divergence widens

Regional divergence within the UK’s private rented sector has become more pronounced, with new...

Santander lowers mortgage pricing and unveils new large loan options

Santander is set to cut its residential fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.14...

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