Equity Release

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...

COMMENT

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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Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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