Equity Release

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...

LLA offers new membership benefits

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has launched a new ‘Strength in Numbers’ campaign designed to...

Age Partnership plans large expansion

Age Partnership is recruiting for 75 new equity release advisers to join its team...

L&G appoints head of IFA sales for lifetime mortgages

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Rob Miles to the position of...

Continued record growth for equity release plan sales

Retired homeowners cashed in £1.25 billion of property wealth in the first half of...

Retirement Advantage appoints head of sales

Les Pick is to join Retirement Advantage as head of sales for its equity...

Interest-only still issue for older homeowners

More 2 Life research has indicated that 41% of over 65 year olds with...

Equity release rates continue to fall

Fixed lifetime mortgage interest rates fell for the seventh consecutive month in June 2017,...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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